Welcome back to our P4/5 Blog. I can’t believe we are getting towards the end of the school year. There are lots of fun events to look forward to in the next few weeks but we still continue to work hard on our learning.

Numeracy

We have been revising our knowledge of money, calculating totals and working out change. Pupils have been shopping using the Aldi catalogue and playing lots of fun games.

We will develop our learning further to explore budgeting and simple ideas around banking.

Literacy

Through reading into writing, pupils have been exploring a variety of instructions and can identify features of these. We even followed a recipe to create Viking Soda bread. We got into a little bit of a mess!

We used our knowledge to write a variety of instructions, including how to make a fruit smoothie and how to create lots of imaginative magic potions.

We continue to develop our confidence in using Active Literacy reading strategies including metalinguistics and identifying the main idea.

IDL

To round off our IDL topic on VIkings, many pupils presented their homework challenges. Pupils created Viking longhouses which displayed the features of a Viking’s home. A great big thank you to everyone for all their hard work on this challenge. There are too many photos of the houses to add them all.

Moving on from our Viking learning we are now investigating skills for life and work. So far we have identifies what skills and qualities that we have and thought about what our hopes for the future are.  We have chosen possible future careers and investigated what skills and qualities you would need for those jobs.

We are super excited as we will be looking in more detail at businesses and the roles within them. Look out for a P4/5 business in the next few weeks!

Queen’s Jubilee

As part of our celebrations, we have created art work to decorate the dinner hall for our Jubilee lunch feast. We were inspired by Pop Art and created Pop art stamps with a partner.

Thank you for reading our Blog post!

Mrs O’Neil 🙂

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Termly Newsletter Kilmaurs Term 4

Welcome back to our blog. Since our last post, we have enjoyed our Spring holiday and continued to work hard.

Last week we were super excited as it was our turn for our classroom to be refurbished. We have moved into our temporary classroom while the work is underway and we are enjoying our first taster of working in a lovely refurbished room. P4/5 did a wonderful job helping Mrs O’Neil to organise and pack!

Here we are enjoying our first few days!

IDL- Expressive Arts/Literacy

We have been exploring the Viking belief system and learning about the many Gods and Goddesses. We have researched and taken notes about Viking jobs and clothing and created Mood Boards using appropriate materials to represent a Viking’s clothes.

 

We have used our art skills to create Viking brooches using card, string and tin foil.

We also created our own Viking swords and shields decorated with runes and runic symbols. Check out our fearsome warriors!

Pupils also worked together to create a script and to perform it to the class. We have many budding actors in the class!

Numeracy

P4/5 are super confident working with fractions and have compared and ordered fractions.  Pupils played lots of games including a challenge to beat their partner when finding equivalent fractions.

Learners are now exploring rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

Thank you for reading our blog post and stay tuned for the next one!

Mrs O’Neil 🙂