This week we have focused on Science report writing. We used our investigation about conductors and insulators to write our report. We learned terms such as hypothesis, apparatus and results. Hopefully the next time we complete a science investigation we can write the report as we work.
In maths, we have been working with percentages. We used our number talks strategies to help us work out how much more is needed on a download percentage bar to reach 100%. This was great fun. The P6 children also played a game where they had to convert from a decimal number to a percentage to reach the other end of the board. To help us with all of this learning we used the following site. Have a go yourself with this site and blog a reply as to how you got on.
http://www.visnos.com/demos/percentage-fraction-decimals-grid
P7 children extended their learning by finding a way of converting a fraction (which did not have 100 as the denominator) into a percentage…great team work was on display. I would say everyone gave 100% effort to their maths learning this week!
We had two special events this week, St Andrew’s Day and the start of Advent. Miss Smyth helped us with our learning about St Andrew and we have been listening to traditional Scots vocabulary through the story “The Eejits” which is a retelling of the story “The Twits” by Roald Dahl, Miss Smyth had everyone laughing with her amazing scottish pronunciations!
Everyone is very excited about the countdown now, but we took sometime to think about the true meaning of Christmas and we have started to engage with our Gospel passages about the birth of Christ. We completed some wordls in our journals to represent all the important words and messages that we can use in our prayers during advent.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Currie
We just can’t ask you to give more than 100%, can we?! Well done. The visitors to school this week commented on how positive children across the school are about numeracy. It sounds like a great example of this in P7/6.
Such a lovely way to end your blog post by reflecting on the true meaning of Christmas. I am looking forward to discussing this with you all at assembly next week. I really like the idea of your wordls to inform your prayers. I’d love to see some of them next week.