Another fun week P5!

In Literacy, we have learning to identify adjectives, nouns and verbs. We have also been reading more from Fantastic Mr Fox- we hope the Famers don’t catch Mr Fox and his family…

In Numeracy, we have been learning more strategies to help us subtract 3 and 4 digit numbers. We also really enjoyed our outdoor Numeracy on Friday!

We have been learning lots about some important people from The Scottish Wars of Independence. We are now experts on William Wallace, King Alexander III, Margaret Maid of Norway and King Edward I! We are going to be exploring more key people and their role in the Wars next week. We even put ourselves in William Wallace’s shoes and wrote a letter to the people of Scotland, asking for their help to defeat King Edward.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have started to look at how our thoughts affect our feelings. We have also continued to work on our fitness in PE.

In Digital Technologies, we have continued with our animations, which we find great fun!

Another great week in P5!

In Numeracy, we have continuing to learn about subtraction of 4 and 3 digit numbers. We now know more strategies we can use including, concrete materials and renaming. We also had good fun during our outdoor numeracy on Friday.

In Literacy, we have been reading our class novel Fantastic Mr Fox and working on our dictionary skills. We have started to make a Word Wall in our classroom of any new words we discover in the book!

In Digital Technologies this week, we have been learning about the effects of cyber-bullying and the importance of being safe and kind to others online. We also used the netbooks to create a timeline of the key events in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Some of us also decided to use paper and paint to create our timelines.

In PE, we have continued trying to improve our fitness levels through different exercises.

Another great week in P5!

In Numeracy, we have been learning subtraction with renaming. We have been working hard with our concrete materials. On Friday, we went outdoors for Numeracy and practiced more addition and subtraction of 4-digit numbers.

In P.E. we have been focussing on fitness. In this week’s lessons we learned about what happens to our heart rate during exercise and completed a self-assessment of our own fitness levels by completing different exercises.

In Health and Wellbeing, we started to explore healthy eating.

In Literacy, we started our new class novel ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. We love the story so far and can’t wait to see what happens next!

In French we learned the names of different food and drinks and were able to give our opinion on different foods when playing a game.

In Digit Technologies, we have started working on simple animations. We find it so fun!

We also started learning about Scottish history. We find it very interesting and can’t wait to learn more.

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