This afternoon we joined the University of Edinburgh online to participate in the Internet project involving the sensors. We had a chance to read lots of data and then to investigate 4 different readings and where they might have come from! Lots of great discussion, thinking skills, creativity and collaboration. This was exciting and we are looking forward to the secret sensor challenge next!
The investigation analysis
Reading data
Secret Sensor Challenge
Today we were thinking about our learning this term on higher order thinking questions. We had the opportunity to create our own game in trios and base the game on our current group novel or Scotland topic. The questions on the game should include a mix of HOT questions in order to move through the game to the end. The best part was making up the rules and swapping them with another trio in the class. Lots of creativity involved, collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills! Well done P5-P7.
Today we had fun playing the game Guess who with our partners. The aim is to guess the character after working out the equivalent fraction or simplifying the fraction. This helped us to consolidate our learning this term and challenge each other before we move on to the next learning intention. Lots of creativity, collaboration and communication!
This week as part of our Outdoor learning, we had fun decorating our journey sticks. We used a variety of collections from outdoors, arts and crafts and memorabilia from home. We worked together to share ideas and collaborate before getting creative! The next step is to share our journey sticks with the class reflecting on achievements, memories, challenges and growth experiences they have had this academic year.
We have been practising our HOT questions this term to encourage critical thinking and go beyond basic comprehension skills across the curriculum. Today as an assessment piece we read an extract and then individually we created a variety of questions on our Jigsaw template, using a specific pen colour for specific HOT questions, eg Creative question, analysis question or understanding question. This was great fun and we enjoyed writing with our new pens too!
Scotland’s National Orchestra
This afternoon P5-P7 were very lucky to receive free tickets to go and watch the RSNO “Sounds of the Deep” production in Paisley Town Hall. It was a fabulous musical and artistic experience to watch and the sound story was incredible too.
Having our picnic lunch in the sunshine!
Making our way in to this beautiful venue!
The world class performers!
This week we were practising for our Burns supper through animation. It was very easy to animate our characters and record audio using Adobe Express on our GLOW account. We found our Scot’s poem from the library online and then recorded our poem. We had fun selecting our character, background and video size. The first poem we recorded was ‘To a Mouse’ and the results were amazing!
Today P5-7 were exploring the natural soundscape in our playground. First we had a super reflection discussion on our favourite achievements and memories from last year. Then we had to choose our special stick from outside and had time to collect materials which are all natural objects and treasures. In our next session we will be indoors using coloured yarn to decorate and get creative.
Today we were exploring equivalent fractions in our numeracy and having fun playing games and using the Mathigon Polypad. Mathigon helps us to visualise the fractions and see pictures of equivalent fractions on bar modelling before moving on to the abstract process using our timestables.
Counting on
Number talks
Mathigon polypad
