For this week’s problem solving, we worked nt e strategies ‘Trial and Improvement’ and ‘Working Systematically.’

Below is the problem we were working to solve:

We worked in 2s or 3s to find as many solutions to the problem as possible.

Why not ask at home what strategies were used to solve the problem?

This term, we have been working to better understand our emotions and how to cope with these. We spoke yesterday about stress and how we can manage this effectively.

The top tips for managing stress are: exercise, making a list, socialising, getting in touch with nature, deep breathing and meditation.

We took part in a short guided meditation in the classroom to try this out and discussed how it helped us to feel calm.

If you would like to try guided meditation at home, there are lots of videos on Youtube and a few free apps that may be useful.

For problem solving this week, we imagined we were code crackers during WW2. In small groups, we were given a line of code to break and a cipher (key) to help us crack it. Once we had cracked each line of code, we then had to work together to unscramble the words to interpret the message.

We developed our problem solving, collaboration and perseverance skills as well as having lots of fun!

We have been working to learn the difference between  equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right angles triangles this week. Here we are creating our own triangles using our bodies.