This week in numeracy we have learnt lots. We will start off by discussing our money lesson. In this lesson we were learning about the value of money and why we save money. We had 3 different learning activities to engage with around the room. Our first station was a saving money station, we had a template of a piggy bank and we had different amounts of money along the side. We had to work in pairs to lay out different ways of making the amount of money shown. We then used the ipad to take pictures of the money which we laid out.
Kate-
“I liked that we could learn about different types of money.”
Emma- “I liked the game on the netbook because you get to learn about different prices.”
Kornel-
“I liked how we put different money on the piggy banks and I liked how we took a photo because you can look at it later.”
In maths this week we have been learning more about information handling. At our favourite carousel station “We got to make our own bar chart using the building blocks.”- Orla.
On Wednesday morning mystery boxes were found in different areas of the school. The mystery boxes had holes cut out the top but you could not really see what was in the box. All that could be seen was a glowing light shining from each box. We were very excited to find out what was in the boxes. Miss Boyes challenged us to write an imaginative piece using a variety of different wow words. We came up with some fab ideas and we took photos of our fantastic writing at the end of the lesson.
Seamus- “The mystery box lesson was exciting because we got to guess what was in the box.”
Brooke- “It was fun because we put our hand in the box and we could feel the different things.”
Kate- “We used different wow words in our writing to describe what we thought was in the box.”
Calvin- “In science this week we learnt about how fast cars travel on different surfaces.”
At one station we played a forces game on the netbooks, in the game we had to find out what was making the car move at different speeds.
At another station we worked with Miss Boyes to time how fast the cars were travelling down a ramp.
Cameron- “To measure the speed of the cars we used the timer on the ipad.”
Miss Boyes covered the ramp with different materials such as tinfoil, sandpaper, cloth and the last surface we measured the time against was the wood.
We worked in a small group taking turns to push the car down the ramp and taking turns to use the timer on the ipad. We discussed why we thought the car moved at different speeds on different surfaces.
“The car went fastest down the wood because it is smooth.”- Aaron.
“The car went slowest on the sand paper and tinfoil because they are rough.”- Seamus.
In art this week we learnt a new technique called printing. We watched a video of an artist using this technique to make a landscape picture. Afterwards we watched Miss Boyes demonstrate two different ways of printing. The first way was by covering different materials with paint and pushing them down to create a picture. The second way to print was by painting a clear sheet of film, we then used cotton buds to draw a picture in the paint. Next you put the paper on top and put pressure on it with a paint roller.
Our art work looks great!
“I thought the print making lesson was fun because it was something I have not learnt about before.”- Maya
Brooke- “It was fun to use the different objects to print the picture. We used: sponges, buttons and toy cars.”
Hope you all have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2B!
