This week is Maths Week Scotland. P7B tried out the Edinburgh University School of Maths challenge this morning. We learnt about Richard, a video game programmer, who uses maths in his job every day. He set us a challenge to work out how many security cameras would be needed in rooms of different shapes. You can try the task by clicking on this link Security Camera Challenge.

There are so many more activities and tasks you can try out on the Maths Week Scotland website just click here and explore.

#MathsWeekScot

What a week!

We have packed so many activities into this week we almost forgot we weren’t really on residential.  You have challenged yourself, shown resilience, worked as a team, communicated well, achieved new things and shown respect and consideration for your peers and all the adult helpers.  Mrs Little and Mrs Brown are so proud of you all!

Here are just a few reminders of our incredible week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Give us your thoughts on the week:

1) What was your best achievement?

2) What are you most proud of?

3) What would you do differently?

4) What did you find most challenging?

5) What would you most like to do again?

6) Any other thoughts?

We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow for the start of our Dalguise at Home week. Remember to look at our overview each day to see what you will need to wear and bring.

Another busy week – we’ve learned a lot about Angles, Square and Triangular numbers, Optical illusions, Forces, Writing a Description, apostrophes, the long /e/ spelling sound and lots of other things.  We also made a playlist for Wonder, designed a zip-wire and had a chat about Puberty!

What did you think?

1. Best bit of the week
2. Something you found tricky
3. Something you would recommend to another learner

Some highlights from this week include –

• air resistance science with flying planes
• floating and sinking testing of our sail boats
• super examples of different types of adjectives
• challenging multiples and factors in maths
• amazing firefighter pieces of description writing
• an actual fire drill!
• refugee and asylum seeker research to find out about characters in ‘The Divided City’

Comment below to answer these review of the week questions –

1. What did you do to make Kingsland a better place this week?
2. What were you successful at this week?
3. What did you need more help with this week?
4. Where could you have worked harder this week?
5. What are you most looking forward to for our Dalguise at Home week?

P7A have had a great week and have finished it off by playing a whole class Kahoot! on what we’ve been learning about.

Comment below on:

1) Your best bit of the week

2) something new you learned

3) something that surprised you

4) something that challenged you

We’ve had a hardworking week this week and will all be glad of a rest this weekend!

Some of the highlights of our week have been –

• Fruit floating and sinking science
• Getting our prefect badges
• Using a £1000000 budget to become property developers
• Designing our Christmas cards

Comment below to summarise the week that you had. Explain what you did, what you enjoyed and what you found challenging.

We have had a very busy week.  Here are some of the things we have been learning about:

Writing – Descriptions and Prefect Application letters to Mrs Wilson

Spelling – Long /a/ sounds

Numeracy & Maths – Place Value & Angles

Science – Floating & sinking

Health & Wellbeing – Look on the Bright Side: positive thinking

As well as continuing our novel study of Wonder!

What has been your highlight and why?

We’ve been busy again this week. We’ve been learning about description writing, place value, and diversity linked to our novel study. We also wrote prefect application letters, danced our spelling sounds, tested floatation of homemade bugs, and played our first Kahoot quizzes.

What did you enjoy this week?

What made you have to really think this week?

What do you still want to know more about?

Here are some photos of when we used outdoor materials to represent numbers to 10,000. See if you can guess what the numbers are by counting the “digits” in each column.

You can also spot our bug making where we tested surface tension of water.