The March Hare was certainly mad but not as excited as we get when it comes to the 1st of the month and our chance to go round school keeping our favourite teachers right with their class calendars.
The ELP Calendar Police tour of duty today took in no fewer than 7 members of staff - [...]
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Mad as a March Hare…about calendars!
Published by March 1st, 2010 in ELP - Maths and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsVisit to the Post Office…
Published by February 25th, 2010 in ELP - Maths and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsIn the last week we have been practising aspects of our everyday maths by taking a trip to the Post Office.
Our task was to establish how much a First Class stamp would cost in addition to posting a parcel to another town.
Finding out the cost of the stamp was easy. We simply asked the lady [...]
12 days of Christmas and having fun in ICT!
Published by December 8th, 2009 in ELP - ICT, ELP - Maths, ELP Blog, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsThis week in ICT we have been using our internet and Microsoft Word skills to make a presentation on The Twelve Days of Christmas for our classroom wall. In planning how we were going to approach this mission, we had FAR TOO MUCH FUN singing the lyrics to the song
We divided the 12 [...]
Counting on Christmas for calendar work…
Published by December 8th, 2009 in ELP - Maths, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsIn ELP Maths we always use this time of year to help us work on counting forwards AND backwards.
We have discovered that Advent Calendars are not the same as normal calendars as they have no months or days on them - simply numbers. We have two kinds of advent calendar in our maths class. We [...]
What is health?
Published by August 25th, 2009 in ELP - Maths, ELP - Science and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsIn S3 Science this year we will be looking to undertake work that is linked in with key units from Access Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Leading on from last year’s successful work on The Human Body we have made an early start on some related work from the Health and Technology Unit in Biology Access.
Over [...]
Any ELP parent or carer wishing to find out more about the MR Maths Tracker programme the children are undertaking will have the opportunity to discuss with teachers at Parents Evening on Wednesday April 1st.
We look forward to seeing you then.
On the money…
Published by February 24th, 2009 in ELP - Maths and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 Commentsshopping-worksheet
This week we will be continuing to look as shopping money activities. On Monday we paid a visit to the local Scotmid, armed with a worksheet (see above link) that asked us to find the prices of a range of items - and find out what foodstuffs or household goods were on offer as a [...]
Time for counting…
Published by January 27th, 2009 in ELP - Maths and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsCan you spot the missing numbers in this sequence?
What numbers fit between 4 and 7? And in what order do they come?
These are the sorts of questions we have been asking ourselves in maths of late, using Ms Balsillies number “washing line” to help us. Sometimes finding the missing number is easy, other times we [...]
It’s that most wonderful time of the year…
Published by November 18th, 2008 in ELP - Maths, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 Comments
The run up to Christmas sees us once again concentrate on time and date in our maths lessons.
In the coming weeks we will be looking at the new calendar for 2009 - and making our own special calendars to be sold nearer the Festive Season. We will also be making our classroom advent calendar and reminding [...]
Shopping “till” we dropped!
Published by October 2nd, 2008 in ELP - Maths, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 Commentsshopping-worksheet
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Miss Balsillie and Mrs Binnie were really delighted with the way the pupils undertook their maths lesson shopping trip challenge on Thursday October the 1st! We visited the local Scotmid armed with a questionnaire that asked us to find the prices of certain items varying from a coconut to a packet of crisps! We had great [...]
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