Author: Miss Aikman

Reflective Reading

We read the Scots’ poem ‘Mister Mank’ by Angus Glen and discussed the meaning of any vocabulary we were unsure of.

We then created  pictures using all the humorous descriptions of Mister Mank and his bottle bank.

 

We started our new maths topic on measurement and decided to measure objects in our classroom. We had various types of measuring aids, so had to decide which would be the most effective for measuring our object.

 

In PE we were practicing our throwing skills so decided to use our measuring skills to see who could throw the furthest.

In our next maths lesson we plan to use these measurements to convert between mm, cm and m.

Thanks to all the parents, carers and family members who made it along to our assembly this morning. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing it.

Here’s a reminder of some of the things you can do to stop the effects of Climate Change –

• Eat less meat
• Buy food locally
• Use the car less – walk or take public transport
• Don’t waste food
• Only buy things you really need

 

Today in Health and Wellbeing we were learning about friendships. We discussed what we thought friendship was and debated scenarios where both sides of the story were given. This led to discussion about whether it might be appropriate to break a friendship under certain circumstances. We also thought about ways to save friendships and things we could say to mend friendships that have been broken.

 

 

Today was Maths Fun Day. Mrs Lockart and Miss Beattie had organised a basket of fun maths related  activities for us to take part in. We had great fun playing games such as dominoes, fraction games and ‘multiplication dash’. As well as using our maths skills, we also demonstrated excellent skills in team work and negotiation.

 

Continuing our topic on Climate Change, we looked at deforestation and it’s affects. We sorted statements about deforestation into ‘for’ and ‘against’ piles. We then debated the issues it caused but also found that there were some reasons that people might think it can’t be fully stopped. Things like toilet roll, paper and a good road network were essentials many of us decided we would not like to live without!

This led to rich discussions around what alternative there may be. One class member suggested we attempt a ‘paperless day’ in our class – watch this space…………………..

We have began our new topic on Climate Change. Pupils discussed what they already knew about Climate Change and what they wanted to find out.

We then created posters about Global Warming to inform others about what it is and it’s causes.

During our reading lesson we created reading sticks and used them to help us with our new ‘Blankety Blank’ game. We worked in pairs to read a passage with missing words and had to used our reading skills to fill in the blanks.

We opened our arcade today! P6/7 visited our arcade and had lots of fun!

Here are some of our finished games…….

Miss Aikman even got her own ‘Teacher pass’ so she could play!

Andy has lost his marbles! He only has 14 left. We had to use our knowledge of fractions to work out how many he had to start with.

Can you work it out?

Here is the link –

https://nrich.maths.org/2421