Literacy

The story that we wrote this week was called ” Favourite Places ” The story was about a place where you really loved to go to. People had choice to write anywhere that we loved to go to. People really enjoyed to write about the favourite places.

We have continued to read our class novel called ” Holes .” We completed part 1 of the class novel we are now on part 2 of the book. Part 2 is filled with cliff hangers. We have been really enjoying the part 2 of the book.

We started the word of the day. We have a book of words and we would try to use the word when were writing a story. We also do Daily writing.  In daily writing Miss Grossert sets us a short writing task.

Numeracy

We created posters about Maths. We rolled dices, We had a choice of 3,5, or 6 digit numbers then we wrote  take away an amount then we wrote what it equals to.

Some groups done Work sheets and some groups done booklets. In the booklets there was Place value, Sorting big numbers and putting them to smallest to largest and one rounding to nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000 and we also wrote numbers in words.

Health and Wellbeing

We worked on our posters about SHANARRI. We cut out our people and stuck them to the wall and we done a worksheet about one of the SHANARRI words and wrote what that word means. Then we stuck it around the peoples.

IDL

We read a power point about the structure of the earth and then we done a Quiz about the structure of the earth. People in the class enjoyed it. Except the technical issues!

Music

We listened to different musics and we wrote what we felt like. We really enjoyed it.

PE

In PE we done benchball and we had to do 5 passes to score a point. The orange team won most of the matches.

class blog written  by Haris

Literacy

We wrote a story called the present. The story is about a boy that plays a game on his X-Box. The boy’s mum came back from the work with a present for the boy, The present was a dog. He realized the dog had one leg missing. The boy had one leg missing too. The boy went outside and started playing with the dog.

In Holes, our class novel, the main character called Stanley is in camp green lake. Stanley found a golden tube whilst he was digging a Hole. Mr sir got poisoned by nail polish. The secret ingredient was rattle snake venom.

Numeracy

We played a new game called Reasoned Rounding. The class found the game very fun.  We had to think strategically to win the game. We done some independent rounding for the first time in Jotters for the first time in P5/6TG!

Health and Wellbeing

We drew a Sunnyside person and wrote Shanarri words around the the person. SHANARRI stands for:

Safe

Healthy

Achieving

Nurtured

Active

Responsible

Included

IDL

A girl named Greta has been trying to save the planet. She is a 16 year old girl from Sweden who fights for Climate Change and goes to important places and does speeches. She inspires children to fight for their future. We watched some of her speeches and thought about our new topic.

We’ve are now pretty much settled into our new class

Literacy

In Writing we wrote a story bpout a time we did or didn’t win. We based our story on the book I Really want to Win. We started by drawing or writing a plan for our story.

Reading:  This week we started our new class novel called Holes.  First we looked at the front and back covers and had to use the clues we found to make prediction about the story. We created a sensory map and we had to include the 5 senses – taste, touch, smell, sight and sound to describe the main setting of Camp Green Lake – we would not like to go there.

Numeracy

This week worked on pattern sheets, we had to work out the sequence of numbers and complete the sequence.

We also used the Education City website to practice our rounding skills and use them to estimate and check answers to addition and subtraction problems.

Which One Doesn’t Belong – We have been enjoying Which One Doesn’t Belong challenges each morning. We have to look at the problem and work out why each number or shape doesn’t fit in the set.

With Miss Elizabeth we watched a video about the Christian Creation Story in RME and in French we learned how to ask for and give a mobile number. We enjoyed having Miss Elizabeth and look forward to her coming back next Wednesday.

Growth Mindset, Grit and The Learning Pit

We learned about The Learning Pit, what to do if you’re stuck. We were introduced to GRIT, that means you have the perseverance and resilience to keep trying until you get it right..

Welcome back for the new school year. Primary 5/6 are looking forward to sharing our learning with you.

This week has been a short week but we’ve managed to pack in quite a few activities.

In Art we used our iPads to take a portrait photograph. We worked in trio’s and edited the photos. We cropped them and changed them to black and white. We learned to airdrop the photo’s to Ms Grossert’s iPad so they could be printed.

We spent some time learning about values this week. We thought about what a value is, we worked hard to remember the school values which are:

Effort

Integrity

Respect

Resilience

Inclusion

Fun

To find out more about values we researched what other organisation values were.

It was interesting to see how many different values companies have – Callum

Finally we chose values that we thought were important and added them to our self-portraits.

To create our class library we revised our knowledge of genre by piecing together jigsaw pieces. We then voted to choose which genre’s we wanted in our class library. In trio’s we went to the library and selected texts matching each genre to bring back to class.

Finding the matching parts was tricky, we had to communicate with lots of people until we found the pieces that matched. – Sophie

In the Library it was too hard to find autobiographies so we compromised and looked for Biographies which was easier. – Eray

We read the book I Really Want to Win.

It was about a girl who really wanted to win and had to be resilient to find something she could win. – Megan

I learned it’s ok to lose, you can just keep on trying – Jodie

I learned to be a lot more resilient and never give up if something is hard. – Callum

We started learning about the emotion works cogs and exploring what each cog represents – we still have more to learn about these.

Next week we’ll be continuing our work in Health and Wellbeing and exploring more in Literacy and Numeracy.