P6/7

Last week we finished off our peer mediation lessons on Tuesday. We learned how to be peer mediators we where taught how to be peer mediators by Mrs McMahon and Mr Grizle. We had to get our chairs in a circle and move all the tables away. Then we had to move all the chairs into a maze and Mr Grizle pretended to be an alien and we had to guide him through it. We have enjoyed peer mediation and looking forward to being peer mediators in p7.

On Wednesday we had mrs McIntyre and mrs Bocas come in to do a little bit of science with us. We learned more about water. We learned that the moon controls sea waves.

On Friday Bobby played his violin at the assembly he was absolutely FANTASTIC! He played a song from the Titanic and had been practicing for ages!

In I.D.L we started our 3D baton for our school sports day. We finished ours and paper mashed it and so has everyone else! We will paint them next week.

We also did a running session on Friday. We had to run for five minutes without stopping. It was really hard and five minutes isn’t very long. We would like to practise this to make sure we get fitter!

Two weeks ago at stage assembly we had a maths quiz. Every class had different questions made up by the pupils of that class. There was a certificate for who got the most right in each class. Georgina, Leah and Neve won with 37 correct answers out of 40. They got certificates and a photo took of them that was put up on the wall.

Monday we had our last badminton session with Euan. We have had a great time with Euan and he has helped us learn how to keep my eye on the shuttlecock, concentrate and hit over arm and underarm. We are now more skilled at badminton.

In maths this week we have been doing more measuring. We looked at lots of shapes and worked out the perimeter and area of shapes. The perimeter is the length of all the sides added together and the area of a square or rectangle is the length times the height.

We have started tennis in PE so for a maths homework task we did some tennis related questions. They were hard because we had to really think about the operations we would need to use. Some questions had lots of different steps.

On Friday we went and learned the Commonwealth dance with P3. It was epic. We can’t believe there were lots of different countries doing it at the same time.

In the afternoon we got all the art supplies out and decorated our jazzy jars for the school fayre tomorrow. Our classroom was a mess but the jars looked brilliant! We did tidy up….promise!

Highlight this week was our visit to the high school. We went and met mr Jopling then did maths and science. We got a good website in maths to practise and did work on coordinates. In science we put the metal magnesium into fire and it shined really bright. We had to wear safety goggles!

It’s been a good and busy week. We learned lots of new things.

Primary 7 were at Kilbowie this week which meant we were top of the school. This meant more responsibility and we had to monitor during wet break, be office assistants and also be the school messenger.

Brodie, Charlie, Kirsty, Courtney and Emma all did a great job and really enjoyed office duty.

We all got shot at monitoring. It was hard at first because the children didn’t listen but we discussed strategies as a class and it got better.

Lots of us helped with messenger. Today Bobby did loads of messages for Mrs Woodward and the office.

In the classroom we finished our science by making a graph to show our results. It was hard but really cool that we can just put all the information in and it makes a graph. Look at some of our graphs below.

We have been doing lots of health work this week, learning about substances and how people misuse them. We talked about legal and illegal drugs and have been using information sheets to make warning posters about alcohol, smoking, solvents, ecstasy and canabis. These are up on our health wall in our classroom.

On Friday we started to learn about tennis in PE. We were outside but had to come in because it was raining. We learned how to hold the racquet and how to balance the ball on the racquet. On Monday we will learn more tennis skills.

Well, what a fantastic week we have had in primary 6. Numeracy week has been awesome!

On Monday we started our volume and capacity work with Mrs McIntyre. We went outside and we learned the difference between volume and capacity – capacity is how much something can hold while volume is how much is in it. We worked out the capacity of various containers. It took us a while to work out how to do it, as our measuring cylinders were smaller than some of our containers. We had to remember how many full cylinders we used then add them and the extra part together.

On Tuesday we went outside again and did three different stations. With Miss Rae we were converting ml to litres and litres to ml. With Ms Ralph we did an orienteering task. We had to find the answer to a question then go and look for that answer in the playground. At each answer there was a letter and the letters spelt out measurement. The last station outside was with a parent helper and we had to estimate the capacity of containers then check our estimates. We all really enjoyed the outdoor learning at the start of the week!

On Wednesday we were looking at the volume in various food packets. We looked up the internet at supermarkets to see if the foods came in different volumes and we looked at the prices of each volume. We also talked about why it was important to use volume when taking medicines. If you take too much medicine you might have to go to hospital and you would be very ill. It is important to take the right volume.

On Thursday we used computers to start to research some famous mathematicians; some of them are Albert Einstein, Issac Newton, Andrew Wiles, Fibonacci and Pythagoras. We are making information posters or presentations and will complete these next week.

We also went into the hall for Mrs McIntyres stations. They were brilliant. We looked at volume, weight and length. There were lots of active stations to work round. We are going to finish these next week too as we got carried away and didn’t finish this week!! Thanks Mrs McIntryre, they were brilliant!

Over the week we have been doing a maths trail all around the school. This has helped show us how often we see and use numbers in our everyday surroundings. We saw car number plates, counted the spaces available for parking, how many can sit at the picnic tables, how far it is from the infant door to the senior door, the perimeter of the garden area in the senior playground and much more.

On Friday we were challenged to make a 1/2metre sqaure cube with newspapers. It was a challenge but great fun!!

This week has been amazing and made us realise how much we use maths and numeracy everyday!

Look at some of the pictures of our week….

We have been learning badminton on Mondays with Ewan.
He showed us how to hold a racket. He showed us two throws and they are over arm and under arm. He also showed us how to serve a shuttlecock. We play games where one person serves the shuttlecock and some one else hits it back you try to get as many hits as you can.
We also play a game where someone throws the shuttlecock and you hit it back. Sometimes we get unlimited life’s but sometimes we only get two. We all find it fun and we all love to learn it.

I can’t do it today because I have broken my toe but I am the chief photographer so have a look at some of my pictures. You will love my photos.