We grabbed our chalk and headed outdoors last week to show what we had been learning about telling the time!
Some helpers drew clock shapes on the playground ready for our task. Each person gave their partner a “time” to draw on the clock face. These varied from o’clock/half past/quarter past,/quarter times to minutes past/to the hour. We also wrote a digital time to match, sometimes including a 24 hour clock too!
Some pupils gave their partner challenges to find things like 27 minutes after a given time. This took a bit more thinking!
Keep having fun showing time when you are out and about P4/5/6. Perhaps you can make a clock on the beach next time!
What have we done today? It’s been a busy day with lots going on!
First the class went to see Mrs Inkster for their Music class. They have been working on, “Wonderland Tea Party Rhythms.” This has involved them using different phrases to help them clap out the rhythms. Then they saw how these rhythms looked in musical notation.
Grammar was waiting for them on their return! Different groups were looking at different aspects of grammar… speech marks, homophones using dictionary work and proper adjectives.
We took advantage of the nice weather to go outside to measure larger areas in metres and centimetres. We found keeping count of the whole metres the hardest part when measuring the length of the multi court! Tomorrow, we will try using the trundle wheel some more and we’ll look at the different ways these measurements can be recorded.
The afternoon saw us quietly reading…always a relaxing, enjoyable time! Then we wrote out our, “Diamond 9 Skills for Teamwork,”ideas. We worked on these last week, deciding in small groups, which skills we thought were most important when working together. See the photos below.
Lastly, some pupils went through to Mrs Inkster to let her hear their voices ahead of choir starting up again. She was very impressed!
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Freya and Kate made a good team, helping each other to measure accurately.
Some serious measuring here!
Innes and Andrew shared out all the jobs equally.
Leah counted how many metres it was back to the class using the trundle wheel.
Primary 5/6 spent another lovely day being creative on Wednesday! We took a wander down to the beach in the sunshine in search of some interesting natural items to use back in the classroom. We had great fun “purlin in da ebb” to look for crabs, fish and other interesting living things.
Just look at these some of the fantastic pictures P5/6 made using the items they found!! More photos to be added so keep an eye out for them coming very soon!
The wet and windy weather hasn’t stopped us from enjoying our new playtime equipment. The skipping has been very popular and I think it is possibly time to dig out all of those old skipping rhymes for the children to try!
It has been lovely to see the class taking turns, co-operating, negotiating and problem solving in our outdoor play area. Well done P5/6!
The class like to try and jump over the spinning rope without the rope touching them.I wonder what’s on the menu today?
What a surprise to come back to school to find that John has pieced together all the mud kitchen resources we sourced last term, many kindly donated by parents throughout the school and our staff members. A HUGE thank you from P5/6!
We hope to begin playing with it next week, but first we are going to organise ourselves into friendship groups for playing, these will be swapped around so we get to play with different people. We also want to decide on some rules and have time to organise the bits and pieces we’ll play with.
Because we want to quarantine the equipment between groups, another offer of a fish box or similar storage box would be great so we can split the equipment.
Finally, we have been drafting a letter to our Parent Council to see if they could help us purchase some waterproof suits that will help protect our clothing.
Here we are with the kitchen….so far! John may have more plans for us!
We have been talking about how, for some pupils, learning times tables comes easily, whilst for others, they are really tricky to remember and recall quickly. We looked at different learning styles today and talked about how finding a way that suits our individual learning style might just make it easier to learn these tables. Over the past two weeks, we’ve tried out various ways to see which way we prefer. We’ve also tried aural learning, chanting our tables to the clave rhythm.
Visual Learning…
We made geometric circle patterns with string, moving around the numbers 0-9 to set out the times tables.
Sometimes, a diagram helps a learner find the answer.
Using materials for larger multiplication sums helps us visualise what’s happening too.
Verbal Learners…
Some like to recite times tables or create words, tongue twisters and rhymes to recall the facts. Good job Eveline!
Physical Learning…Some learn by using their bodies and moving to help them learn.
We wrote out the times table we needed to learn in a hopscotch game and jumped using our bodies until we got to the right answer. Chanting the numbers helped too!
Social Learners…Some like to work with others and learn together.
We wrote out a Tic Tac Toe board and the first one to get the multiplication answer right got to put in a 0 or X. We had fun racing against each other!
Kathryn and Conor made up their own symbols!
Logical Thinkers…Like to ask questions and see the whole picture. This group were setting out the 4 times table in a way that helped them count up in 4’s.
As part of our Biodiversity topic we have been classifying living things, including ourselves! We made classfication keys about our class members and more recently looked at a range of different types of leaves from our nature garden and Mrs Henderson’s garden! We sorted them into groups according to texture, size, scent, number of leaves, edges etc, Then we tried to see if we could identify the tree they came from, just by their leaves. Some were very obvious, but some were quite tricky to identify.
We’ve had a lovely day in P5/6! We started off working on refreshing some of our times tables by making fortune tellers and testing our friends. Then it was outside to work on our fitness in Class PE. We clocked up an amazing total of 194 laps of the multicourt as a class!! Our Accelerated Reader time was so peaceful and relaxing after our run outside. We also worked in pairs to talk about positive emotions…naming them, recognising what they look like, compiling lists of what makes us feel good and, perhaps the most difficult to describe, how our bodies feel physically when we feel good. The afternoon was spent designing our Christmas cards!! Yes…in September!
Sometimes, the most fun and memorable things to happen are the unexpected moments! Today, we were gifted a pile of tree cuttings from our nature garden for P5/6 to use in the grassy area to make dens. I was delighted to see the joy and excitement this brought to everyone and we are keeping fingers crossed for good weather next week so we can enjoy it. I also loved seeing the enthusiasm and team work bringing up the branches! 😃
We had a super afternoon exploring our school grounds, searching for a variety of living things. Everyone had a bingo board with a range of living things to find. It was great fun taking a closer look for signs of life in the trees, under stones, pieces of wood and in the long grass.
After our bingo game, we had time for a quick game of hide and seek in the “forest”! The trees are growing so well that it was very hard to find people!!
We ended our session with a visit to the nature garden and pond. We patiently sat and waited to see if there were any frogs and we were not disappointed! It was very exciting to see them hopping about in the heather.
What else do I need to find….?
BINGO!
Elijah was the expert frog finder!
Watch out Eveline! I think the frog is going to jump!
We have started to explore a new area of Maths this week. We braved the February weather to take our learning outside into the playground. The markings on our play areas were perfect for helping us explore parallel and perpendicular lines. We looked for right angles too. It’s amazing how many you find when you actively go looking!
A perfect example of perpendicular lines and right angles!
Fergus and Hannah used their metre stick to create a perpendicular line and right angles.
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