… from a tiny snail to a giant sunflower!
This week at CKPS we’ve been celebrating ‘ALL THINGS MATHS’! As lots of us know, while we’ve been out at the allotment this term, we’ve often needed to use some of our MATHS SKILLS.
In September, we were amazed at the HEIGHT of some of our spectacular sunflowers – we ESTIMATED the height of the tallest one before we MEASURED it by using our METRE STICKS – as best as we could. We reckoned that it was nearly 3 METRES TALL! …
Something else which really amazed us was DISCOVERING the contents of a POPPY SEED HEAD – although we could ESTIMATE the number of poppy seeds which came out of ONE seed head, it would have taken us much more time than we had available to COUNT all those TINY seeds – HUNDREDS, or possibly THOUSANDS of them! …
We needed our MEASURING SKILLS again this week when we finished planting a total of 50 red onions. We had to MEASURE the DISTANCE between our 2 rows of onions, as well as the DEPTH to plant each onion:
The language of SIZE is often used when we’re out at the allotment, such as comparing OPPOSITES like LITTLE/LARGE, TINY/HUGE, SMALL/BIG. We often see TINY creatures enjoying our produce:
HOLIDAY AHEAD! I hope everyone enjoys the next 10 days, whether you’re off on an adventure away from home, or enjoying some rest and relaxation with friends and family in and around Edinburgh. Fred Frog and I will not be going far this time but we ARE looking forward to the short break from school before we WELCOME everyone back to CKPS on Tuesday 24th October. 😊🐸 Have fun! Mrs Dale