As part of P7 science topic about sources of energy, pupils were set the challenge of using wind power to lift a plastic cup filled with as many coins as possible. Initial designs have now been developed and there will be a little time tomorrow to make small adjustments before the final testing.
Primary 1 have been busy learning the last set 2 sound which was ‘oy’. We brainstormed and then made lots of ‘oy’ words such as boy. We also learned the tricky word ‘too’. In writing we have been working on letter writing and we wrote a letter to the friendly dragon telling him that we are going to help him save the enchanted forest by getting people to believe in fairy tales again. The dragon paid the classroom a visit when we were at lunch on Wednesday and left us a mirror and a number 7. We worked out that the items were from Snow White and we listened to the story. We then pretended we were Snow White walking through the dark scary forest. In Maths, we have been learning about capacity and how many cups of water or sand it takes to fill objects. We learned the terms full, half full, nearly full/empty and empty. Here are a few thoughts from the children on their learning this week:
Pola: I enjoyed drama when we were a tree or Snow White walking through the forest!
Amelia: I loved being a scary tree in the forest.
Safia: I liked listening to fairy tales.
Aiden: I enjoyed listening to the story of Snow White.
Calum: I liked learning the ‘oy’ sound and building lots of words with it.
James: I enjoyed learning about capacity and how many cups it took to fill different containers.
Lewis: I liked developing skills in Yoga.
Here are some photos from our recent PATPAL afternoon! Thank you again to all the parents who came along to support us.
As promised, here are a selection of photos from the P7 Cluster Rugby Festival on Friday.
Primary 6 have started French this week. We focused/refreshed our knowledge on numbers. We are looking forward to our next lesson!
Primary 6 have been doing some independent learning for Maths. Each group are creating a power point on a specific multiplication or division strategy which will then be presented to the rest of our class.
Primary 6 are learning about the planets of our Solar System and the characteristics of each. Here we have some of our work.
Following on from our numeracy PATPAL last week, Primary 3 have been sharing the different ways that they know to solve multiplication problems.
We worked with our talk partners to try out different strategies to help us solve some word problems:
We have also been exploring different ways to present data and used our French knowledge of numbers and colours to create class surveys. We used tally marks to gather the data and bar charts to display it.
Next week in French we will be learning more ways to answer the question: “Quel temp fait-il?”
