Volume and capacity

 We have been finding out about volume and capacity. As well as estimating and measuring litres and millilitres we made up some cuboid puzzles in 3 parts - it was surprisingly difficult to visualise how they could be put back together again!

 

Next week we will be starting to prepare for our class assembly and the School Fair which will be all about Fair Trade. Keep visiting the blog to see how we get on!

Better Movers and Thinkers, Better bakers and mathematicians...

We have been working on thinking and moving at the same time, coordinating what we do with other people, using a rhythm, using both sides of our body, changing direction... its surprisingly difficult!

Creating our own sequences this week was good fun, but involved a lot of concentration and good listening, watching and communication skills.

We finished Fair Trade fortnight by writing a newspaper article about Fair Trade bananas and  baking cupcakes using fairly traded sugar, chocolate and bananas.

It was hard work! Look at all the maths we had to do to make it successful.

We wrote a few instructions of our own - luckily we got a chance to practice with jam sandwiches before wasting any of our precious cupcakes!

You can find the recipe book here.

Debating season

Its debating time in P5M. We started off thinking about school uniform. Should we have a national kilt and tie school uniform in Scotland for all schools? What do you think? 

A lot of us think it looks smart!

The next topic is going to be - 'Should we introduce native animals species like wolf, lynx, boar and beaver? What do you think? What topics would you like to debate?

Volcanic Eruptions!

First we took the bag of mixture and put it in a bowl and mixed it with our hands. We put  a pipe on the tray and put the paper mache and covered up the pipe so you couldn't see it in a volcano shape. We made little trails down the side of the model for lava to flow down. After a week it was dry.

 

Then we got the powder and mixed it with vinegar and poured it in to the volcano model with a spoon. It made a small eruption. We weren't very happy with that so we poured the rest of the bag in and that worked for quite a long time. We just had to keep pouring the vinegar in. Next we put baking soda and fairy liquid in. We poured the vinegar in and it was much better.

The lava flowed really that time.

 

We learned that magma and lava are molten rock and act like liquid when they are really hot.

by Andrew.

Volcanic debates, legendary stories.

 

This week the science group who chose volcanoes to investigate got started on their model.

When it is dry they will be able to make a 'working' model.

 

We practised thinking critically about a couple of ideas and had a 'tug of war' with them on the whiteboard. Then it was time for our first 'debate'. We started with a fun topic just to learn how the process works. Debating is very structured -  its hard to wait for your turn when you are keen to make your point! We had some very good points which were explained very well, and quite persuasive! What do you think? - should all Scottish schools have the kilt for all of their pupils' school uniform?

This week we finished our pieces of extended writing - they have been published on our wiki and the link is on the sidebar menu. We have written stories in three parts about a main character who meets a mysterious Scottish creature...