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 🙂