Homework week beginning 15^th May

Maths

As part of our Algebra topic, we are learning about function machines. For homework – design your own function machine with at least one step. Extra challenge – have 2, 3, 4 or even 5 steps to your function machine!

Roll dice and input numbers to the function machine. What number comes out? Create a table to show the numbers in and out like below.

Language

We are learning about different types of text and this week we are looking at a “report”. Report comprehension sheet.

Road safety

We are starting a road safety campaign. For this campaign, we need to be familiar with the speed limits for different vehicles and the speed limits for different roads. For homework

• Find the maximum speed limit for the following vehicles – motorkbike, double decker bus, car with a caravan, lorry, car.
• Find out how many different categories of road speed limits there are – eg some roads at 30, some are 70.

            Auto-biographies/Writing

Today we re-wrote our auto-biographies by analyzing our auto-biographies that we wrote yesterday and changing some parts as some of us didn’t do them correctly. We were given a template today to help us show what parts of your life goes in what paragraph. We had to make sure our auto-biographies was in chronological order instead going from being 6 years old then going to 3 years old. In this lesson we learned:

What a biography and an auto-biography is!

A biography is when you are writing about someone else.

Then if you are writing an auto-biography it is when you are writing about yourself because ‘auto’ means ‘self’.

Maths

      In maths we were focusing on:

Sequence patterns by working out the formula and the differences between the numbers that were given. We did a new formula of sequences which was called ‘Growing Patterns’. We made 3 growing patterns of our own for other people to complete. We then did a sheet when you had to count how many match sticks were added on each time. Today we learned about growing patterns and how they work. A top tip is that you have to look at the first part of the pattern and continue your way to the end.

I.C.T

In ICT we made a power-point about information we have learned on space. The skills we used were: internet researching, using more than one website when looking at facts.

Highschool

Today one of the people came in from the high school , her name was Lindsey. Lindsey was here to talk to us about high school and our feelings about it. I think this would help us with what were worried about in high school but also let us learn about the things we are looking forward to. Lindsey will be coming in for the next few weeks to work with us in preparation for our high school move.

Writing

In writing today we were learning about autobiographies and biographies. We learned that a biography is written by someone else and an autobiography is written by yourself. Both have to be written in chronological order. We began writing our own autobiography.

P.E.

In p.e we learned some Irish dancing steps. We then learned a four hand and our routine went like this step in  “1.2.3.4” in skips and “1.2.3.4”back to you’re partner   “1.2.3” then turn around  Then Form Into a circle and “1.2.3” 🙂

I.D.L

Today In I.D.L we were learning about mission patches. Astronauts design their own mission patches before they go into space on their mission into space. We then created our own mission patch which included our names, mission number and picture. We also learned about Mnemonics. We created our own mnemonic to help us remember the order of the planets orbiting the sun. Our mnemonic is:

My

Very

Elderly

Mum

Just

Sat

Upon

Needles

Maths

Today in maths 2 people from the high school came and gave us fractions questions, four fours challenge and investigation sheet.          We got warmed us up with the four fours challenge witch was  challenging, we also went over square roots and root squares. We had to make numbers 1-20 only using 4,4,4,4.

Language

In Language we did a space crossword this was hard because there was 2 words in the same question and 4 people manged to complete the crossword. We also had to find out synonyms of words, a synonym is a word that means the same as something else for example pretty is a synonym of beautiful.

ICT

In ICT we made a chart about planets in our solar system and had to find out information about these planets. This was fun because we were using our researching skills.

Music

we have got a new song called”Man I feel like a women” to learn for our school show.

Language

Today in Language  we were looking at joining and paragraphing.  We copied out a piece  of text in joined up handwriting ,some people in the class really enjoy this and some don’t like it very much.  We learned a top tip which was TiP TOP – Time, Place, Topic and Person. If any of these change in a piece of writing you take a new paragraph. Our own top tip is to have a sharp pencil and to copy out the text correctly.

Maths

In maths we were creating pie charts and learning about probability. We completed two different worksheets, one on probability and one on pie charts. We also created our own pie chart.

French

In french we were looking back at work we had previously done to help us create and answer questions. It was a revision task of everything we have covered so far.

beat the street

Today we went out on our first beat the street walk. We visited a few beat boxes around the school area. If you didn’t know, beat the street is a walking challenge  designed for children and adults to get fit and healthy, here  is a link to their website : https://www.beatthestreet.me/UserPortal/Default

This is a picture of a beat box. You tap your fob on the beat box and this registers your walking distance. The beat boxes are positioned all around Cumbernauld.

SURVEY

Today some of the p6/7’s came and did a survey in our class about Disney films and on our favorite books

Here are a couple of space links that Jamie was asking about

They are worth investigating as the show the size of different things in the universe.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Song Practice-Today in class we were practicing our school show songs. We have 3 songs,The 3 songs are called 1.The Gambler 2.Life  Is A Highway 3.Go Girl. We haven’t practiced Go Girl yet. Most of the class pupils favorite  song is Life Is A Highway.

Maths- Today in maths we did pascal triangles / algebra.  HOW WE DID IT? – we got a triangle and a pencil then we had to start with the top numbers then you would + them together for the next  answer.

TOP TIPS !

1. Start with top number. 2. Add them together 3.try different ideas.

Capture The Flag-In class the teacher picked 2 groups with 2 teams and if you don’t know what capture the flag is it is when there are 2 teams on two parts of a pitch/grass or any sort of land with enough room to fit 2 teams in it and then there are cones in a shape of a circle and then there is cones to separate the two teams and then the aim is to get the flag and back to your land before the other team does.

TOP TIPS- 1. Don’t Get Tagged  2. Run As Fast As You Can  3.Try And Win.  GOOD LUCK!

Language-In language today we wrote a diary entry  as if we were in space. We watched a video of a spacemen in space and took notes. We had some fabulous diary entries!

Earlier in the day we wrote our own world war 2 poems and in I.C.T we typed them in Microsoft word.

We added borders and some pictures to the poem.

maths

Mr McMullan took a group of pupils to do some maths.It was Fibonacci sequence were you had to work out a pattern and continue it 1,1,2,3,5,8,_,_,_,55.

Then we played a game with Miss Hannaway .The game was that Miss Hannaway would set a number and it when it buzzes it adds that number on e.g You selected to add on 20 and it buzzed 3 times it would be 60.

Space

We watched a video of the international space station. In the video someone gave us a tour of where everything is in the space station and what somethings do.

By Ryan and Dylan

Design the honey label competition – Second

To design packaging for a product

• I can make my label, bright, colourful and clear.
• I can include a name for our farm, name for the honey, date it was made and nutritional information.
• I can design a logo for the honey and include a motto.

There will be a winner from each house, plus an overall winner, which will be used for our actual honey jars in the summer.

The four winners will get 2,000, 1,500, 1,000 and 500 respectively. The overall winner will get 4,000 house points.

Designs will be judged on the success criteria.

The children’s entries need to have their name, class and house on it.

You can use this template or design their own – their choice.

If you want to design them on a computer and print them out, that’s fine.

Today we have the Google Virtual Reality experience! We went to space, the great barrier reef, Barcelona, Dubai and New York.

The template for the VR headset is free online and the apps are all free!