This week in P5E…

Literacy – We have started sentence battles in our class, this is an activity that allows us to uplevel sentences by adding exciting vocabulary, openers, connectives, punctuation and description. We complete this whilst a song is on and then we read our peers and decide the winning sentence from our team. There are 4 people in the final and whoever gains the most points wins. This is a really fun way of improving our writing.

In writing this week we completed our imaginative stories from our plans. We all did such a fantastic job and Miss Mcewan was so impressed with the improvement in our writing. We then focused on redrafting our writing on the laptops, taking our feedback and working on this.

Maths – This week in maths we were converting 12 and 24 hour time. We then looked at real timetables from Alloa that were in 24 hour time, from this we created our own timetables – ‘day in the life of us’. We had the choice of completing it in 12 or 24 hour time and then we had to swap our timetable with a friend who then converted it. We all have worked super hard using time so ask me at home to tell the time in different ways.

IDL – This week in topic we have looked at the respiratory system and the circulatory system, ask me about these to see what I know…

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Maths – Time

We have been learning about 12 and 24 hour time this week and have worked on converting between both times. This has been  very tricky at times but we are all showing a growth mindset and have made great progress.

IDL – Human Body Systems

This week in IDL we have been learning about the main organs and their functions. We then worked in groups to created a life size picture and added the main organs to this, together we labelled the organs with their function.

Here are some pictures of our fabulous work…

 

Makaton 

Miss McEwan is currently taking part in a Makaton training programme and is sharing all of her new learning with us each week. We are all very enthusiastic about learning Makaton and we aim to try and use it more in our daily routine. Ask me to show you how to sign some different words in Makaton…

This week we said goodbye to Miss Robinson who is going to Uganda, we were very sad to see her go but we are wishing her all the luck in the world in her new adventure.

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Miss Mcewan – P5E

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

General Information:

We had a very busy but enjoyable second term in Primary 5.  We completed our Romans topic, which provided the opportunity to learn about the Roman Empire and the impact of the Romans in Britain.  Our Fairtrade topic was interesting and we had the opportunity to learn about a range of Fairtrade products.  We completed a variety of areas of Maths, including directions, co-ordinates, shape and multiplication.

Homework will continue to be issued on a Monday and should be returned on a Friday. As well as this, children are encouraged to complete reading at home whether it is a book from school or a book of choice at home.

The children will take part in 3 PE lessons per week and these will be on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.  PE kit can be kept in the classroom.

The children will continue to earn DOJO points for positive behaviour and choices within the classroom.  House Points will be awarded in the playground and when they are lining up.

We continue to add information to our class BLOG and this will be updated weekly.  Our BLOG can be accessed via the school website.

Learning focus this term:

This term in IDL we will be learning about Body Systems.

Through our topic we will be learning about/to:

• The function of the major organs in the body.
• How tissues and organs formed.
• What the sensory organs are and how they help me.
• How my body responds to external influences.
• The effect of alcohol, drugs and poor diet on the body.

Core Literacy:

• We will develop our writing by working on the tools for writing, including using paragraphs correctly; identifying direct speech and continuing to develop the use of sentence openers, connectives and punctuation.
• We will be using our topic as a stimulus for writing in a variety of different styles, such as report writing, information sheets and posters.
• Children will be given opportunities to develop their listening and talking skills through a variety of class based activities, cooperative group work and presenting a talk to the class.
• During class reading lessons, the children will continue to implement a range of comprehension strategies.  They will have the opportunity to use Blooms Buttons and Book Detective strategies to check their comprehension.
• We will also use our new class novel ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell as a focus for developing our literacy skills.

Core Numeracy:

• Pupils will use written and mental strategies to complete division calculations.
• Pupils will develop their understanding of time, including telling the time on an analogue and digital clock; converting 12 and 24 hour time; reading timetables and calendars and calculating duration.
• Pupils will develop their understanding of decimal fractions, including identifying the value of each digit and completing a variety of calculations.
• Pupils will develop their understanding of fractions and mixed numbers.

RME/ Health and Wellbeing

This term our RME focus will be Islam.

As a Health Promoting school we actively encourage and teach our children to make healthy choices, to enable them to become healthy, active and emotionally resilient young people of the future.

We are delighted to be able to continue to deliver 2 hours of PE a week as well as opportunities for children to be active in our fabulous new grounds.

I look forward to working in partnership with you this session.

Kind regards,

Miss McEwan 🙂

 

Maths –  In maths we are continuing with our topic of division, this week we have focused on using remainders. We have used a number of different strategies to help us do this. We had time on sumdog this week.

IDL – Our new topic is Human Body Systems, we have looked at how the organs in our bodies work and what they do. Here are some fun facts we have already learned

-There are roughly 206 bones in the adult human body. Did you know that children have more bones than adults?

-We lose 30000-40000 pieces of dead skin a minute.

-When you swallow chewing gum it stays in your body for 3 days (not 7 years)

Ask me to tell you some more facts?

During ERIC this week we explored some of our topic related books…

 

Writing – We used the Australian bush fires as our focus for writing a descriptive piece of text. We thought about what we would be able to see/hear and smell if we were there, we had to focus on using exciting vocabulary.

We took part in the BBC 500 words competition and we are going to continue to plan and create our own stories.

Quotes of the week

“I liked doing the 500 words, we had to plan a story to write”

“PE was really fun this week because we got to play tidy the garden”

“In maths we have been doing remainders, at first it was really tricky and now it’s quite easy”

“Our new topic is amazing and I’m looking forward to doing lots of fun experiments.

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Welcome back to our blog, we hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a happy new year. Our first week back has been very busy and we have made a great start to the new year.

Maths – This week have been learning different strategies to divide. We have been using the reverse multiplication strategy, sharing and grouping. As well as this we have been continuing our work on time with Miss Robinson on a Wednesday.

Reading – In reading we have our new books which we have started reading with our partner. We completed a ‘first look’ questionnaire that allowed us to think about what the different features of the book has told us already.

Writing – We competed two excellent pieces of writing this week. We firstly completed our goals for 2020, this allowed us to think of personal goals we want to work on/achieve this year both in and out of school. Some people had some very ambitious goals which is fantastic to see.

Also we completed a postcard based on our class novel ‘Wonder’. We learned about the key features of a postcard and then made our very own A4 postcard sharing Augy’s stories about his trip away at the nature retreat – these looked so effective.

 Quotes of the week…

“I enjoyed doing the  beep test in PE”

“We painted trees onto a glowing moon in art”

“I enjoyed writing the 2020 goals it was very fun”

 

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