Primary 6 did a marvellous job of preparing an assembly to tell the school about our Lochs and Rivers in the Classroom project. It took place last Monday and the questions from all of the classes kept us there for a good half hour. We are continuing to monitor and try to regulate the water temperature. Weekends are a challenge!
This was another great week where over half the class had improved their performance on last week. We challenged a Primary 7 guest who managed 100% in record time! Well done. We are motivated and raring to go. This Friday we will be preparing for the Ultimate Challenge Week 1. Are there any parents out there who would like to pop in at 9am on Friday and take the challenge?
A Learn It is a number fact that is learned so quickly it can be recalled as quickly as your own name! There are 72 Learn Its and once they are learned we can then use them and be reassured that in a different calculation ‘It’s Nothing New’. For example, if we know that 8 x 7 = 56, then 80 x 7 = 560 is ‘Nothing New’ just as 0.8 x 0.7 = 5.6 is ‘Nothing New’. This makes all numeracy so much easier as we cover new topics such as fractions and decimals.
By Primary 6 we practise all of the 72 Learn Its at speed. I have given the pupils a pack home with sheets to practise, just orally, not written. You are very welcome to help them with this.
We are having challenges in class with a weekly Friday guest versus P6 and Mrs Shanta. Last week it was Mr Hardy though discretion does not permit me to reveal scores… 🙂
We are privileged to have been chosen as one of 12 Ayrshire classrooms to take part in the ‘Lochs and Rivers in the Classroom’ project. This will run from now until the Easter holidays. Yesterday we welcomed Struan and Gordon from the Ayrshire Rivers Trust to find out what it entails. You can find out more about it here: http://www.ayrshireriverstrust.org/blog/2017/01/17/lochs-and-rivers-in-the-classroom-project/
This is going to be a wonderful learning adventure for us all. We are busy preparing an assembly to let the school know about the project. We have been learning how to read thermometers accurately and to keep our hatchery water at a constant optimum 8 degree Celsius. We do need loads of empty 500ml water bottles for this!
Our Brown Trout eggs will arrive just after the February weekend. We will get about 100 and hope to rear them to the stage just as their yolk sac runs out. Watch this space!
We have had fun creating a display of information about Space. Don’t the boards look great?
We will continue with our Space topic for the rest of January. The personal research talks were fantastic and the pupils used such an interesting variety of media to present them – powerpoints, models, posters, news reports and even videos. Well done everyone.
Our next step is to explore the discussion of ‘Should we go into Space?’ and to consider the features of persuasive arguments before writing our own. Hmmm… ‘Should school holidays be longer?’
Welcome back to Term 3 and I hope that 2017 is a happy, healthy year for us all.
This week, we have launched straight into our Burns’ poem, ‘To a Mouse’, in preparation for the Burns’ competition on Friday 27th January. If your child is one of the 3 finalists chosen from the class, you will be invited to the afternoon recital of all finalists. I hope you enjoy practising the poem with your child. We have worked very hard to understand it, and to gain a deeper understanding Robert Burns, ‘the man’, through reading his poetry.
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