In numeracy this week we have been learning about repeated addition and how it links to multiplication. We have also been learning about arrays and how we can track our array in different ways along the number line. We made up multiplication sentences to talk about the arrays.
We played a fun game to help us learn about our multiplication sums. You have to draw two circles on your whiteboard or paper. Then your friend gives you a number (same number for each flower) and you draw that number of petals on the flower. This has helped us think about how many flowers there are… how many petals and how many petals altogether. Then for additional challenge we had to write the multiplication sentence.
This is a fun activity that could also be completed at home.
Many different storms have hit Scotland recently but we bet you haven’t heard of “Storm P2B!”
This week we have listened to the story of “Katie Morag and Tiresome Ted”. In the story there is a big storm on the Isle of Struay. To begin our writing lesson we watched 2 short film clips from “Pocahontas and The Little Mermaid”. In the clips a big dark storm hits the boats in the sea.
We used this as our inspiration (along with the Katie Morag story) to write our own storm descriptions. As part of our success criteria we had to use wow words to describe what a storm would look like and sound like.
Miss Boyes has really enjoyed reading all of our storm descriptions. Lots of great wow words were used such as: crashing, splashing, gloomy and screeching.
Following on from this lesson, after lunchtime we had an “exciting” music lesson. We began the lesson by listening to a piece of music written by Beethoven called “The Storm.” We had to guess what the music was about and we spoke about the loud and quiet parts of the music. Then we were split into two groups and took part in two different stations.
Our learning intention for station 1 was: “I can sort instruments into the different ways we use them.”
At station 1 we sorted different musical instruments into two hoops. We had to decide which instruments you could bang and which instruments you could shake. Zuzanna made a good observation and said “Where would I put this instrument because I can bang it and shake it, would it be in the middle?” This showed great identification skills.
After this we moved onto working in pairs and played an instrument sorting game on the netbooks.
At station 2 our learning intention was:
“I can explore the different sounds that the instruments make.”
To do this we looked back at our writing of the storm from before lunchtime. Miss Boyes helped us pick out different descriptive sentences and we used these to build our music around.
We all had a turn of playing the instruments.
We presented and evaluated our musical creations by watching our recordings back and using peer and self-assessment evaluation sheets.
Have a lovely weekend and we hope you don’t get caught in any stormy weather!
Miss Boyes and P2B!
