Learn Its

January 23, 2017 User deactivated

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… 🙂

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Lochs and Rivers in the Classroom

January 18, 2017 User deactivated

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!

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And so we begin Term 3 in Primary 6!

January 11, 2017 User deactivated

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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