Author: Mrs McJimpsey

We are learning to … create a set of equal fractions

1. Burt is 80 today.  His cake has 80 candles but he only blew out 60. 

 a) What fraction did he blow out?

b) Can you write another equal fraction to this?

2. Draw 3 sets of  pictures to show equivalent fractions. e.g 1 quarter = 2 eighths  

Record your answers in your homework jotter but post a comment on here to tell me how you found the homework this week.

Good luck

Miss McLennan 🙂

We are learning to … solve problems involving percentages- find a percentage of an amount.

Have a look at this yummy menu.  http://www.frankieandbennys.com/menu/main

Choose a three course meal for you and a friend.

Add up the prices to find the total cost of your meal.

You are given a 10% discount.  What is the discount?

How much do you pay in total?

Post your answers on here or in your homework jotter!

Enjoy drooling over the menu!

Miss McLennan 🙂

In Technologies this afternoon we had a design challenge to make a waterproof shelter for 2 Playmobile figures.  It had to be stable and strong so that Miss McLennan could not blow it over.  Here we are, hard at work…

P7 have been tired this week after lots of long lies in bed but there has been lots of learning!

Shannon – I learned how to explore fractions better this week

Shea – this week I have been learning to add and subtract decimals.

Sophie – In P.E we started to learn more about tennis especially the forehand technique.

I learned that the blue side of a magnet, if you put it against the other blue side it retraces itself.  The red side with the red side does the same as the blue. With the red and the blue they attract to each other. 

We learned in maths how to divide by using the chunking method or the bus stop method.  It was to divide bigger numbers from one digit to three or four sometimes.

We have a money Monday where we learned what money is worth in different countries and there are currencies so if we go to a different country when we are older.

We are learning about smoking.   We had a nice lady visit and she showed us how smoking affects your health and what it does to you.

In maths we have been learning how to read lots of different types of word problems. In an assessment we had to read the question carefully but you needed to use lots of skills like adding, time and loads of other ones.

Maths

• In maths we did a maths test to show what we know already we had to work by ourselves.  There were 45 marks.

Topic

• In topic we were learning about money and drugs/smoking.
• Our topic now is drugs/smoking.  We made posters to show why you should not smoke and what effects it has on us.
• A woman from West Lothian Tobacco Unit came to visit and she taught us a lot of interesting things.  She showed us a jar full of tar and she taught us about more effects it has on us.

This term I enjoyed and learning about the risks of smoking here are some of them: Cancer, Tar (the stuff in our playground but it doesn’t set), Yellow teeth, Smell bad

And many more!! In science with Mrs Campbell we were learning about magnets and how they work.  Here is some of the things we learned:

• The blue side cannot connect with a other blue side the will just drift apart
• The red side cannot connect with a other red side they will just drift apart
• But if you but the red side to the blue side they will connect

In the past two weeks P7 have been extremely busy and had a lot of visitors.  We had Ali from Sweet Service in talking about how to run a business and what ingredients we need to run one. We also had a Michelle coming in and talking to us about smoking and the risks that can go wrong.

In writing we were writing a scene in the city called Winter in the City.  We only had 15 minutes to write as we used the Learning to Learn tool – WE GOT Time!

We were practising our Christmas song, Mary’s Boy Child to sing in assembly.

At P.E we were doing shooting into goals and catching the ball in a diamond shape like a goal keeper.

In maths we were learning about money about how to transfer into a different currency using an exchange rate to see how much it would cost here.  

By Connor, P7