We have been outdoors lots this week and the weather was very kind to us. As part of our outdoor science over the past few weeks we have been looking at habitat and characteristics of a species.
In groups we created a new species, with specific habitat and characteristics. We then made maps of the playground, models of our species and a fact file. We then hid the creatures and had to go on an expedition to find another teams species using only the map and fact file.
It was a very interesting task, as we found that our results were dependent on the quality of the maps and the information provided !
Meet our 5 new species below !
In numeracy our focus has been on data handling. We have investigated mean, median and mode of data sets and have a lovely song about that ! We then moved on to look at all types of chart including pie, bar, line and histogram. We used data to make frequency charts and histograms. We also started to look at the manipulation of data using excel and spreadsheets. using the sort and filter functionality the children learnt how to deal with large amounts of data and find answers to questions. Our next steps will be to create some graphs using that data.
In literacy most of us have finished our creative writing, our goal was to up-level our writing and challenge ourselves with our vocabulary and openers.
French this week was all about pets, “Tu-as un animal a la maison?”. The children learnt how to ask and answer the questions and we also focused on writing these phrases and vocabulary.
Mrs Gordon handed back the WW2 personal projects with feedback (written and verbal), she was blown away by the quality of these projects, and learnt a lot. She cannot wait to hear the class talks about these exciting topics next week…
Bon weekend
P7a and Mrs Gordon
Oui. J’ai un petit chien noir. Il s’appelle Murdo.