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