Happy Friday everyone! Here is an update on what we’ve been doing this week in P5:

 

In literacy, we have been investigating the “oy/oi” phoneme and it’s representations. Pupils are doing well with their spelling and are becoming more confident making and breaking words and identifying phonemes within words. We also started reading our new class novel, The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo. The pupils really enjoyed completing a task board where they got to choose which literacy skills to practice. In writing this week, we conducted some research about Alexander Fleming and used skimming and scanning to find important information. We then made notes in our jotters before using our notes to create a biography about him.

In maths, we have spent this week revising how to add and subtract 10, 100 or 1000 to a number and linking it to place value. The pupils worked really hard on their task board activities and are making good progress in this area. Next we will be moving onto practicing the written column method for addition and will also begin to investigate shape.

In other areas, we have been learning about the geographical features of Africa and have been using an atlas to identify features such as rivers and mountains. Pupils were then asked to plot these features onto a blank map which was a challenge! For St Andrews Day, we had a STEM challenge where in teams of 3, P5 had to design and build a boat that carried St Andrew across the sea. The boat had to have a figure in it to represent St Andrew, a Saltire on it somewhere and it had to float. We had brilliant fun experimenting with different materials and are pleased to say that all of our boats passed the floating/sinking test!

     

Have a lovely weekend!

-Miss Frew