Numeracy
We have started our Maths Transition LIVE sessions with Mrs Lundenberg from Armadale Academy. These will take place every week and will help to enhance our numeracy and maths skills in preparation for transition. In numeracy we have been learning more about Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. This will help us during our Financial Education focus later next month as we look at converting currencies, working out interest rates and the benefits/cons of credit or store cards.
Literacy
In literacy we have been writing narratives and focusing on the finer details of description. We have also been exploring digital literacy by transferring our writing into comics using the Pixton app. We held a class vote and our new class novel is The Christmasaurus Cracker which is the brand new novel by Tom Fletcher. In French, we are looking at describing our likes/dislikes, describing clothes and colours, and talking about the weather around the world.
Other areas
We have been learning about sustainability. We found other uses for plastic bags such as jewellery and clothes! We also learned more about energy, recycling and waste. We built our own windfarms using lego or junk modelling. We also designed and created our own class scarecrow as part of a whole school challenge. Her name is Betty and you can see her final version below!
We have started a new STEAM challenge called the Air Race Challenge. We have been tasked with designing, building and operating a drone course which is very exciting! We will be sharing details of our progress very soon!
We had the West Lothian Rangers Service visit us and we completed an outdoor learning workshop with them. We had to use our problem solving skills to complete their challenges!
We have enjoyed:
L – I liked creating comics using our free writing, it was fun!
H – I liked helping at the coffee morning, it was nice to see everyone and we raised so much money for McMillan.
R – I liked the plastic bag challenge when we had to find another use for them, we made bracelets.
