This week the class were participating in a Scottish Maths week contest on Sumdog. They were all extremely keen to get their numbers up the leaderboard, I loved the determination! Well done, everyone.

On Wednesday afternoon we had Eleanor come in to facilitate the class in building land yachts. She spoke a lot about the different skills they were having to use: creativity, resilience, engineering skills to name a few. It was really interesting to see how many different variations of designs there were!

This week we have been focusing on addition strategies in maths. Some of us have been reminding ourselves how to use the blank number line strategy, while others have been working on the column method with our lovely, new textbooks!

We also had a blubber experiment using fat and icy water. One hand was protected with the fat and the other was straight into the water. We came to the conclusion that the blubber was much better at keeping us warm!

This week we have been working on rounding in maths, utilising our strategy of looking to the right to help us. I hope everyone is feeling confident as they have been doing really well!

We also had another active spelling session where we had to choose challenge cards and could work in groups or solo.

One of our explorer’s choices this week was to become a teacher and present to the class a lesson/quiz about something you enjoy. This linked in with SDG4 Quality Education.  We had a competitive gaming quiz from Dexter and Dylan, and a movie quiz from Rebekah and Kaela! We will fit in more lessons next week 🙂

Feel like this week has flown by! For our active spelling lesson this week we became paper basketball experts and were able to shoot after spelling our words correctly! This was a lot of fun. We also played pass the word using our class playlist to play a version of ‘pass the parcel’.

As part of our Explorer’s Journals (This or That) one of the options was to design and research lighthouses, which links into our topic.