Queen’s Jubilee Art

Connor is colouring some bunting.

Callum is drawing a corgi.

 

Lucy  is designing a cake.

 

This is Zoe B’s stamp.

These are Rebecca’s stamps.

This is Callum’s stamp.

 

Primary 5 have been doing art on the Queen’s Jubilee. Callum,  Zoe B. and Rebecca have been drawing fab-ou-lous stamps for their homework. Rebecca drew an amazing drawing of the Queen riding a horse. Charley and Hannah also prepared a powerpoint on the queen.

This is Rebecca’s horse.

These are  some of the crowns that Primary 5 have created.

 

Sports Day

All of Primary 5 have been planning their sports day. They have had very good ideas. They will do the Monkey Run, Army Crawl and the Frog Jump for their novelty race.

Imaginative Writing

Primary 5 are focusing on imaginative writing. They have been writing excellent  stories. They wrote descriptive  paragraphs focusing on adjectives and interesting phrases.  Andrew was the star writer for last week. Well done!

Badminton 

In PE primary 5 have been learning badminton. They are learning how to hold the racket and serve.

 

Brogan’s Achievement

Brogan has got her blue belt in taekwondo. It took Brogan one and a half months to get it, so it is pretty hard.

This is Brogan with her belt.

Time

Primary 5 have been doing time for their maths. Working on 24 hour clocks and time duration. Ellis, Natasha and Ellie have been accurate with their work this week.

This is Ellis’ work.

This is Natasha’s work.

Sikhism

Primary 5 have been learning about Sikhism with Miss Corrigan. They have learned the story’s of Guru Nanak and Vasakhi. They have learnt lots of facts and are doing very well.

Bike Ability 

Gordon Allen has been teaching primary 5 bike ability. I am so glad to say that all of primary 5’s have passed the test and are doing very well.

 

Songs

Primary 5 have been learning three songs for the schools summer show which will be performed after sports day. The songs include Summer Holiday, Walking On Sunshine and Surfin USA.  The class song is Surfin USA and the primary are enjoying to make up moves.

Reported by Connor and Ellis

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Newsletter-Kilmaurs-P5 Term 4

Primary 5 returned from their Easter holiday relaxed and fresh, ready to get stuck straight in to new learning.

Photograph by Kailan 

Homework

We started a new homework system with a formal week followed by a personal choice week in our lovely jigsaw format.

I have been thoroughly impressed with how quickly everyone has adapted. Last week we had interesting and original photographs submitted as part of our choices. Nature was the focus and we had many different views and angles of flowers, trees, animals and scenery. This photograph by Layla and Lola was cleverly created.

Bikeability

Primary 5 have started a 5 week course of cycle training where they get to practice their skills in the playground and learn how to travel safely on the road. In the first week everyone also learned how to ensure their bike was safe and roadworthy. Everyone carried out their own safety checks.

Detailed Drawing

We couldn’t miss the opportunity to draw our bikes while they were in school. WOW! what wonderful detail and shape in the line drawings we produced. It was also lovely to spend some time outside relaxing while sketching in the sunshine.

 

Writing

We have started a block of imaginative writing. Our first tasks were to effectively show what is happening and also clearly describe the setting and characters.

Zoe B. is our first star writer as she included these amazing phrases.

‘Butterflies fluttered their astonishing wings’

‘Penguins dressed in tuxedoes opened the gate, it was a pleasure’

 

Time 

We are focusing on time over the next few weeks and have carried out challenges at home and in school to measure the duration of time. We are also improving our ability to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks. We have played games, completed online challenges and used our own clocks to practice each skill.

Callum T. even sent in a video showing how many times he could bounce a basketball in a minute. Can you guess how many?

What a great start to the new term.

Well done Primary 5!

Primary 5 managed to complete the 21 Star Reading Challenge today. Pets have had books read to them, Grace visited the library van, Brogan followed a recipe and baked banana muffins . Zoe B managed to even read upside down on a trampoline. Well done to everyone who contributed to the class’ achievement.

Callum reading a comic strip.

Lacey enjoying her breakfast with a book .

Dancing

We have been busy learning Salsa with Miss Corrigan and also creative dance with Mrs Howat. Our choice of music has been Encanto.

Football

We started our football training sessions with the coaches from Kilmarnock football club. Excellent skills were on show.

Oscar and Erin had excellent control . 

Hannah and Connor, Ivy and Lacey are showing passing and receiving skills.

Oscar has been given the fabulous opportunity to be the captain of his football team. I’m sure he will have all of the correct attributes to be successful.

African Art

We created a sunset over the African veld.
We painted using a tonal recession technique.

We also drew silhouettes of African animals

 

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The drawings for our masks are fabulous.

We are starting to build up our new display on Africa.

Everyone designed a mask for a friend, making sure it represented their partners character and passions. One mask has turtles on it , do you know who that was designed for ?
Each mask is unique and personal to the wearer.

Number Talks

We are continuing to use the method of finding a friendly number when multiplying this week. Connor has shown repeated addition , the written and mental method in his Number Talk.
We were also looking at silent letters in spelling – numb, thumb, climb etc.
This is a perfect example of how we start our day every morning , well done Connor.

Aily’s Achievement

Aily managed to reach her Dolphin level 7 at Swimming . Well done !

Well done everyone for always working so hard.

 

World Book Day

This week Primary 5 have been working towards meeting the World Book Day challenges. We only have 5 more stars to complete the challenge.

Connor is reading a book with a yellow cover.

Erin and Hannah are laughing at Horrid Henry.

Jayden , Lacey and Rebecca are reading about animals.

So far we have built a den in class to read inside. Great communication skills and problem solving was used to build a tent big enough to hold all of us. Well done!

Haydn, Lacey and Ivy inside the den.

Most of the class chose to be comfortable and wear our pyjamas this morning. However we did also have a witch and Mario present.

P5 watched the World Book Day authors and illustrators explain how they get their ideas for imaginative stories. After this live session we created our own imagination maps showing illustrations and ideas for stories.

We have some talented illustrators and writers who created wonderful settings and original characters.

Under the sea

This week Jayden was keen to explain about the oceans and brought in a poster. He talked through all of the different sea creatures that exist at each depth in the ocean. Clever boy. You really know your facts. We were all fascinated by the variety of creatures.

Numeracy

We have been working on simplifying fractions and creating equivalent fractions this week. Some pupils also completed their numeracy assessments and were able to apply the skills they know.

Number Talks

The class have been working on the strategy of finding friendly numbers when multiplying. We continue to start every day with a smart start and a word of the day.

Africa

In writing everyone has been able to research, take notes then create a non chronological report on White Lions. Every child will be choosing their own African animal to research next.

Going Electric 

P5 enjoyed a visit to the new  electric bus owned by McGill’s bus company they were able to ask questions and experience being on the bus. They were shocked to find out each one cost £360,000 to build.

STEAM challenge

Primary 7 set our class a house challenge, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Each house had to work collaboratively to design and build a rose or bunch of roses using the materials we had in class. Lots of ideas were trialled before a final design was made. Everyone gave themselves a role and worked extremely well to complete the challenge. Here are the finished 3D roses. Great teamwork!

Blue House – single rose

Red House – pot full of roses

 

Yellow House – A bouquet

Green House – Used a tower of paper cup lids to create a tub to hold their roses.
Well done everyone!

Numeracy

Primary 5 have been very busy with their new work on fractions. We know how to calculate a fraction of a number and also create equivalent fractions. Our number talks have been to half and double this fortnight.

Literacy

We have started our new novel ‘ The Butterfly Lion ‘ by Michael Morpurgo. This week we used Prior knowledge, prediction, visualisation and metalinguistics to study the text. We have also decided we wanted to find out more about white Lions and Africa. This will be our interdisciplinary topic until Easter.

Drawings from the description of the Manor House.

Burns Competition

We had a very difficult decision to make as everyone in P5 who learned their poem was excellent. Miss Wheelan had the tricky task of judging the finalists.

Winner – Andrew        Oor Wullie

2nd – Layla                      A dug a dug!

3rd – Ellis                        Oor Wullie

P5 thoroughly enjoyed watching everyone perform, you were all entertaining and confident.

Thank you for working so hard , enjoy  your holiday.

 

 

Primary 5 have been busy presenting their findings on Robert Burns’ life. We have learned so much information from –

Following a professional timeline designed and presented by Andrew.

Listening to a fact sheet created by Millie.

Reading a presentation and a lift the flap poster by Rebecca.

Ellis’ cleverly structured Acrostic poem that covered all of the main facts in Robert Burns life.

Primary 5 pupils have also shown excellent research and technical skills to design and deliver Power Point presentations. Well done to everyone who has had the confidence to stand up and talk to the class so far. We cant wait to hear the rest of the class deliver their research.

We have also been practicing our Scottish poems.

Oor Wullie and A Dug A Dug

Everyone will be heard on Tuesday 1st February.

Good Luck!

On the 25th January we had a Scottish day in celebration of Robert Burns Birthday.

We were delighted to hear Jock perform 3 songs on his chanter. Well done!

 

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Newsletter-Kilmaurs-P5 Term 3

Welcome back everyone.

Primary 5 have started a Scottish theme for this month that will cover poetry, stories , songs and also look at traditions.

We are researching about Robert Burns for homework. This will be presented on 25th January. I look forward to learning more about Robert Burns from P5’s wonderful research and skilful presentations.

Our first song naturally was Auld Lang Syne as we discussed traditions at New Year in Scotland and around the world .  This week we enjoyed learning The Skyscraper Wean ( Jeely piece song ) a definite favourite with the class.

We have studied Scottish traditional clothing  – a Kilt, sporran and tartan. Everyone was able to design their own tartan on the computer and also create a paper kilt. These are unique.

If you want to design one yourself look up the House of Tartan website and have a go.

Some of our designs –

In numeracy we have started to look at division and can use a variety of ways to solve a problem.

Our Number Talks focus for this fortnight is to use the partial quotient strategy.

As you can see P5 are getting more confident with it.

What a great start to the year.

Well done !

Millie’s festive bears – twins ? 
Grace’s Peter Rabbit 
Jock’s Titanic decoration. Wow! What detail. 

Callum’s Santa and Elf decoration

Primary 5 designed, planned and made their own decorations for our real Christmas tree . Lots of problem solving and experimenting with different materials. Our tree looks stunning with these unique and personal designs. Well done everyone.

Numeracy

Over the past two weeks we have looked at different strategies for subtraction. Our Number Talks have shown that P5 can confidently use many different ways to find a solution. I’m very proud of everyone.

Multiplication

We have been also looking at improving our knowledge of multiplication through active games as well as calculations. Some pupils have learned how to use the grid method of multiplication with great accuracy.

Keep up the good work of learning those multiplication facts, use Sumdog and Topmarks for extra practice.

Mary Queen of Scots

Everyone has carried out excellent research on this time in Scottish history. We learned about the tragic death of Mary’s father King James V  . Her life in France  and her first husband Francis. The triple tragedy of the death of Henri II, Francis and her mother Mary of Guise.

How Mary would have travelled. 
Primary 5 created their own fashion brand for Mary – House of Stuart! Very elegant.
They designed a brand logo to accompany their clothing range. Very original.

Our display has a wealth of facts and information including a timeline, details of battles, beautiful portraits, news reports , the fashion house of Stuart plus transport.
Jayden even found out Mary Queen of Scots loved marmalade .

newspaper reports

Primary 5 have also improved their French . Introducing themselves clearly, giving greetings and also learning the vocabulary for food and drink.

Next week Primary 5 will be finding out about the next part of Mary Queen of Scot’s life. They will be researching a murder plot and also judging the evidence used to convict her of TREASON. Should she have been beheaded ?

What do you think ?

In literacy they will be looking at scripts and acting in character.

P5 will continue to read  The Selkie Girl focusing on clear understanding. Everyone was able to apply their reading skills of prior knowledge, metacognition, visualisation and questioning over the past two weeks.

Christmas Jumper day

 

Everyone was proudly wearing their Christmas jumper today and raising money for Save the Children, well done! Thank you.

Andrew’s snowman created today in ICT.

As this is our final post before Christmas I want to wish you all a fabulous holiday and a restful time together. Enjoy the excitement, have fun!

Merry Christmas from Miss Stienlet and the wonderful Primary 5 pupils.