We have been learning about Area in Maths and some of us have created our own shape monsters. Then we counted the squares or used cubes/counters to measure the amount of area they take up.
We can take our learning outdoors and make shape monsters on the playground with chalk then measure the area they take up using our hands and feet.
How can we use the paving bricks to explore Area ?
A big thank you to Mrs. Musgrave. We really enjoyed her talk about Fotheringham Bridge in Peebles and the story behind it.
After her talk we began to plan our own stories based on the three Billy Goats’ Gruff. Our stories are set in Pebbles and our characters have to cross a bridge over the River Tweed. Under the bridge there live a range of scary things from trolls to dragons and monsters.
Primary 5 Scientists have been carrying out different experiments to answer some questions.
Last week we carried out experiments to see what materials dissolve in water and we found that salt, sugar and coffee were soluble materials. Sawdust and sand were insoluble.
Then this week we used our soluble materials to try and answer these questions:
Does the temperature of water make a material dissolve more quickly?
Does stirring make a material dissolve more quickly?
Does the size of the bits of the material make is dissolve more quickly?
Can we clean dirty water?
We have had to predict what we think will happen and make sure that we carried out fair tests. Everything had to be exactly the same apart from one variable. We have had lots of fun being Scientists.
We have been enjoying the sunny weather and been doing lots of different activities outdoors!
We went a walk aroud the school, used the school mugga, and had a picnic up there. It was yummy!
We have been busy starting to plant and gig in our ELC garden!
We are looking forward to our Garden stay and Play for our parents to get involved with our garden too.
We also planted some cress in ELC and then got to take them home.
Primary 2 have been creating their own characters, writing character cards and then making up their own stories about the characters. Mrs Finnie helped us to create our characters then we worked on the writing by using the picture to help us.
We have been surprised by the amount of planning we have had to do but, this has really helped us to get to know our characters and then write longer stories.
This week we will be learning about rough copies and re-drafting to polish up our work.
How did you feel when you had finished re-drafting your writing?
On Tuesday afternoon we went along to the library and we learned:
1. Coding looks very complicated to do just simple things
2. There are three types of coding instructors – Blocks, JavaScript and Python
3. Blocks are the easiest, then JavaScript, then Python
4. This website had helping tutorials
5. Different variety of games you can change including the three instructors
We would recommend other people try out this website as our class found it enjoyable and we learned a lot!
We had an assembly about having a positive mindset. We played a game that taught us things like The Power of Yet and Life is a Mirror. In the afternoon we had a workshop with Jen where we had to work together to complete some puzzles. We discussed perseverance and how we learn from our mistakes and to not give up on things. We found out that Ed Sheeran had to work very hard to become a good musician and he didn’t always sound as good as he does now!
I took part in Yoga, Drama and Chill out. I liked all of them.
Great work P2B. It looks like you’re all doing a wonderful job!
