Today Primary Seven have been leaning about sun safety.  We have been learning how to stay safe in the sun and some of the dangers that being out in the sun can bring.

Numeracy

We have been calculating percentages of amounts and identifying any links that will make this easier for us. E.g. 18% of 100 = 18 therefore 18% of 50 = 9 and 18% of 25 = 4.5

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Identify calculations that involve percentages while out at the shops or town centre and complete the calculations looking for ways to make it easier.
• Revise your 6 and 7 times tables to help with your calculations.
• http://www.mathplayground.com/balloon_invaders_percent.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/maths/percentages.shtml

Literacy

Reading: Inference – We have been exploring what inference is and identifying information from different sources: pictures, sounds and writing.

Writing: Reports – We have been developing our skills in writing reports and using them to write about biodiversity.

Spelling: plural words ending in ‘f’ – We have been learning what to do if a words ends with f. E.g. half = halves or roof = roofs

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Read a chapter from a book or magazine and make notes identifying the information you have inferred.
• Write your own paragraphs with hidden clues for inferred information.
• https://www.spellzone.com/games/against_clock/index.cfm?wordlist=3060

HWB

Drug Awareness

We have been developing our knowledge of drugs safety. We have discussed the difference between helpful and harmful drugs as well as legal and illegal drugs.

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Can you identify drugs that you might find at home or at the shops that are helpful to the body?
• Create a poster detailing some of the benefits that a chosen helpful drug might have on the body.
• https://www.lookoutzone.co.uk/tobacco/look_out.html
• https://www.lookoutzone.co.uk/alcohol/look_out.html

Remember you can use your thinking jotter to record any thoughts, ideas and work you have completed when looking at these topics and I would love to see anything you create at home!

Mrs Park

Today Primary Seven spent some time working with maths teachers from Greenfaulds High School to solve some CSI problems using their maths skills!

Today in class we where learning about drugs and how safe we need to be. We complete a task sheet that had questions about different types of drugs and we could answer true or false. There were 14 questions and it was to test our knowledge on drugs. We learned that drugs are substances that could help your body or do bad effects on your body.  Continue reading Health and Well Being →

Today in class we were looking at chapter two of shadow. We did comprehension questions that we got from the high school. We had to use three different success criterias such as : words from the question, your own words to explain, words from the text – evidence. We did this work for our showcase jotters as it is showcase week.

By Abbie, Danielle and Melissa