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Highlights from our lesson today where each stage worked on their own problem solving activity. Super collaboration, cooperation, communication and critical skills from each trio.
We had a special visitor in last Friday to share a little about Germany. This was Alfie's mum Kat. Kat taught us a few key German words and she taught us a little about recycling in Germany as this is our school project. We are always very grateful for our parent volunteers who give up ... Continue reading "European day of languages"
Today we were learning to define line/ reflective symmetry and complete reflections of given 2D and 3D objects, with and without mirrors. In literacy we read chapter 4 together as a think aloud then created the castle using Lego, scratch and junk models.
Today we were lucky to have the experts in from Quaternity. Quaternity is a natural chess evolution which develops intuitive thinking along with strategy and tactics.
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to visit a family run business to see first hand how they grow the potatoes and the process of harvesting and processing them in their factory, before being sold to customers. This was a trip we won by growing the most potatoes in the summer term and completing a ... Continue reading "Scotchip Farm visit - taking the classroom outdoors!"
We are working in partnership with University of Glasgow to implement MathsBURST in our classroom. Today we were learning to define reflective symmetry, complete reflections of given 2D shapes and reflect 2D shapes over horizontal axes. We all enjoyed using the mirrors to visualise, predict and check. We are also going to use this strategy ... Continue reading "Line of Reflective Symmetry"
The next part of our PBL learning was to find out about the different climates in our chosen countries. P1 had a science workshop on the four seasons, p3/4 were learning about world climates and the Equator. Primary 5-7 were finding out about different climates around the world using I pads, and the vocabulary we ... Continue reading "Project based learning"
