Hi everybody! welcome to another P4/5 Blog catch up. We are continuing to work hard and are excited to be heading towards the Easter break.

Literacy

For spelling we have been exploring the representations of ‘ie’. We are confident at breaking the words up into their sounds.

We have been exploring synonyms in our literacy too. A synonym is a word that has a similar meaning. For example hot and roasting. We played a fun game of Call My Bluff where the pupils had to choose the correct synonym and stand at the correct wall for the answer.

For reading into writing we have been exploring scripts. We identified the features and had a go at writing our own!

Numeracy

In our numeracy we have been building on our knowledge of fractions. To reinforce some of our learning we started working in our local Pizzeria! We followed challenge card instructions to get the toppings correct on our pizzas!

We have learned about fractions as numbers and where they lie on the number line.  We had to beat our time to place ourselves in the correct place!

As the weather improved this week, we took our numeracy outside. We worked as a team and raced against each other to add the fractions onto the number line in chalk on the playground.

IDL

We have been working on our drama skills and can identify the skills needed to portray a role or character. Our warm up was to move around the class in a variety of roles including a teacher, an elderly person and a famous superstar!

In groups of three, we worked on our improvisation skills as we read one line and continued our role play. We have lots of budding actors in our classroom!

We will bring together our knowledge of script writing and our drama skills next week to create Viking themed scripts to perform!

We have been looking carefully at Viking houses and their features. We compared Viking homes with our homes and most of us didn’t fancy living in a Viking home!

Last week we dressed in red and wore red noses in support of Comic Relief. Thank you to all parents who donated through parent pay for this charity …

As we continue to investigate and reflect upon Christian stories, this week in particular Noah’s Ark, our learners have been enjoying linking R.M.E and music 🎶 together. We listened to Camille Saint Seans’ Carnival of the Animals to see if we could guess what animal the music was representing. We focussed our attention on speed, pitch and tempo along with the instruments in the orchestra. Mrs Howat also made us laugh by sharing her hidden talent of making elephant noises. Here are some of our guesses along with some fabulous collage art work.

Starting with Daniel’s…

Thank you for reading another P4/5 Blog catch up. Have a wonderful Easter break when it comes!

Mrs O’Neil and Mrs Howat

Welcome to another P4/5 catch-up. We are still working away and learning lots of new things.

Literacy

For spelling we are continuing to build on our knowledge of representations of ‘ee’ and we are also looking at spelling strategies which help us spell common/tricky words.  This week we have been focussing on words within words and syllabification.

 

We worked together in teams to take part in a homophone competition. Clues were read out and each team could earn 2 points. The first point if they could identify the homophones and the second point if they could spell both words accurately.

For example- A red flower with a thorny stem-rose

Columns are vertical, horizontal lines are – rows

For some of our reading, pupils have been working extremely hard completing assessments. Well done for your focus and excellent effort!

Religious & Moral Education/I.C.T

We are continuing to develop our understanding of Christian beliefs and have been learning about the creation story. Last week we focussed on the creation of our world in 7 days. This week we specifically looked at the story of Adam & Eve. Pupils created storyboards on paper and then transferred these main events digitally online. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with this new website www.storyboardthat.com. Each storyboard is unique in terms of graphics used: characters, backgrounds, images and text. I’m sure you’ll agree that the pupils have worked extremely hard to make these stories come to life….

Numeracy

We are now becoming super confident with division. We have steadily built our knowledge and can now divide larger numbers that include remainders. We have applied this knowledge to lots of different word problems and worked hard to pick out the important information in the problems. As an extra challenge we created word problems of our own.

 

World Book Day

Last Thursday we had a super time celebrating World Book Day! Well done to the class for working together to complete the World Book Day Challenge. This was where there were challenges such as, read to your pet, or read in an unusual place. Lots of P4/5 pupils went home and took photos of their challenges and uploaded them to TEAMS. Great job everyone!

In class we joined in with the Author’s Live event. We enjoyed hearing from real life authors and the books that they had written for World Book Day.

One of the World Book Day Challenges was to read in a den that you had built yourself so for a little fun, we used the den building kits to work in teams to create dens in class that we could read in. We learned about the importance of having a plan in place before you begin building!

 

IDL

P4/5 have been really enjoying our Viking topic. First of all we learned about where the Vikings came from and why they settled in areas of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. We used an atlas and practised our mapping skills.

As some of the Vikings came over to raid, we watched a cartoon which explained how they did it. We then created a helpful hints book for a new Viking to help them learn how to raid and what makes a good raid.

We have explored features of the Viking Longships and how they made their long journey to their new settlements. We explored the features of Longships and even designed our own scary dragon heads to frighten away other Vikings!

 

PE

P4/5 have been very lucky as they are one of three classes who are receiving football coaching from Kilmarnock Football club during their Monday PE lesson. Monday was their first lesson and all pupils had lots of fun.

Thank you for reading our blog update.

Mrs O’Neil and Mrs Howat 🙂