Wow! I can’t believe we are approaching the end of the year and our last Blog post of the session!

We have continued to be super busy with our learning but have enjoyed lots of fun events these past few weeks.

Blair Drummond Safari Park

What a fun filled and super busy day! We visited so many of the animals and even saw some dinosaurs! We thoroughly enjoyed the play park and the bumpy slide too. After such an exciting day, some of us even managed a bus nap on the way home!

 

Sports Day/Song Performance

We had another fantastic day at our Sports and Song performance picnic. All pupils took part fully in all races and potted sports and were a credit to their houses.

When we returned to school, pupils had a wonderful time with their families and friends enjoying picnics. It was so exciting to welcome back visitors into the school grounds. P4/5 worked extremely hard practising their song and creating props and organising dance moves too. I was very proud of them and they kicked off the song concert with a bang!

 

Queen’s Jubilee-Numeracy

As part of our numeracy learning we carried out a Queen’s Jubilee challenge. Pupils worked together in trios to plan and budget for a party to celebrate the Jubilee. Pupils showed great teamwork to follow a budget to plan for food, drinks, music and decorations. It was tricky to do this and to stay within budget.

We even got a surprise visit from the Queen herself!

IDL

As part of our learning on skills for life, learning and work, pupils have been identifying the businesses within our community and exploring the job roles within these businesses. Pupils used their knowledge to identify roles within the Safari Park and created adverts with the skills and qualities required for the posts.

 

Thank you for reading our final post and for all your support this year. It has been a joy to teach the wonderful pupils in P4/5 and I know they will have a fantastic P5 and P6  year.

Have a lovely and relaxing holiday and I’ll see you all in August!

Mrs O’Neil 🙂

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 🙂

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 🙂

Welcome back to our P4/5 Blog. We’ve been continuing to work super hard on our learning and can’t wait to share it with you.

Numeracy

We have been working on using the grid method to help us solve multiplication calculations. We really enjoy this method as we have to make use of our knowledge of partitioning and place value too.

We are working on division and are becoming more and more confident everyday! We are identifying lots of different strategies to help us solve division calculations including repeated subtraction on a number line and identifying related multiplication facts.

 

Literacy

We are really excited as we have now started our new book study. Our first task was to carry out some predictions. We used only the title and the blurb and designed what we thought the front cover may look like. We had to have lots of reasons to back up why we included certain things on our cover. We spotted lots of clues that helped us to make predictions.

In spelling we are looking at the representations of the phoneme ‘ee’. We have spotted 5 ways that we can make the ‘ee’ sound including ‘ee’ ‘ea’ ‘e’ ‘ie’ and ‘e_e’.  We are working hard on our Active Literacy strategies to help us identify the phonemes within our spelling words. We are also playing fun pairs games.

Through our reading  we have been exploring literacy devices that are used in persuasive writing. We have looked at fact and opinion and hyperbole. The pupils have been able to identify these in texts and give their own facts and opinions too. We have also learned that hyperbole is when things are exaggerated. Some of us (Mrs O’Neil) do this all the time! We read a really funny poem called ‘I ate a spicy pepper’ which was full of hyperbole. We created a visualisation of the scene created by the poet.

 

We are using this learning to help us write persuasively. This week we wrote about the controversial issue of school uniform! We worked as a group to identify reasons for and against wearing uniform and then decided what our own opinions were.

PE

This week we started learning the skills for hockey. We explored the correct way to hold the hockey stick and took part in different activities to help us control the ball effectively.

IDL

What a fantastic lot of inventors we have in P4/5. Pupils came up with wonderful designs based around a need or a problem that could be solved. We followed the design process and created 2 or 3 designs that we liked. In groups we discussed the pros and cons of our designs and settled on a final choice. Each pupil created a detailed, labelled design. They range from a projector to allow you to change your bedroom without the need for messy paint, to a clever arm band for Mrs O’Neil to keep her whiteboard pens close to her!

We then used our knowledge of fact and opinions to create an advert to sell our newest inventions. Our adverts had to include facts, opinions, hyperbole and much more!

To finish off our week we created KWL boards to identify what we already know and what we would like to find out about the topic Vikings! We are super excited to begin learning more about the Vikings!!

2’s Day

To celebrate 2’s day on 22.2.22 we had a whole school dance party for 2 minutes. It was lovely for us all to be out together in our own sections of the playground. What fantastic dance moves P4/5 have. The YMCA was a favourite!

We have also been working incredibly hard during French lessons to recognise and say the vocabulary for numbers up to 100. Pupils took part in french whispers and interactive splat team games when counting in tens in french…

and then putting our French vocabulary to the test by playing fun French matching games online..

In R.M.E we have been learning about Christianity and have been focussing on parable stories from the bible. So far we have discussed the morals from each of these parables by watching video clips and taking part in activities.  Last week we discussed the parable of The Two Sons. Here are our parable posters and puzzles that reinforce that actions speak louder than words…

Thank you for reading our blog. Remember homework tasks are uploaded to TEAMS.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs O’Neil 🙂

Welcome back to our blog.

Literacy

In reading and writing we have been exploring rhyme schemes. We have used this knowledge to help us write limericks.

We had a great laugh writing our limericks!

One of our favourites was:

 

There once was a young boy called Stu,

Who opened a brand new zoo.

He fed the animals food,

But they were in a bit of a mood,

So they left him a big pile of poo!!

Well done Cameron, Zak and Eilidh.

For spelling we are exploring all the different representations of ‘ay’. Pupils are doing a great job recognising all the different ways we can make ‘ay’.

Numeracy

Pupils are continuing to make super progress with multiplication. We have been creating new facts using our knowledge of multiples of 10. We even created games to help us practise!

Pupils are also becoming confident using the grid method to multiply. We enjoyed racing against each other in a game to practise this strategy.

IDL

To finish off our current IDL topic we became experts and researched a Scottish inventor. We had lots that we had to include in our presentation, including a timeline. We presented our research to each other and asked questions.

We explored the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the famous Scottish architect and artist. We followed a step by step video to help us create the famous ‘Glasgow Rose’ in the style of the artist. We then used our knowledge to create our own designs using the rose.

CLASS REWARD

As a class, we work hard together to be the best we can be. When we have collected enough shiny stone points we enjoy group rewards. This week, we had celebrated enough group rewards to enjoy our next class reward. We voted on a class game of hide and seek, however the weather was not very kind to us, so we enjoyed 30 minutes of games instead. We had cars, Simon says, chrome books, art tasks and so much more!

Poetry- ‘Last Nicht’

All pupils worked so hard to learn a Scots poem and they all performed it in front of the class. They did a wonderful job with lots of super actions and great expression! Finalists were chosen and another teacher chose our final winners. A big well done to all of P4/5. You made me very proud with your poetry!

Congratulations to Ryan, Robyn, Zak, Blake, Lucy and Georgia.

Thanks again for reading our blog.

Have a wonderful February weekend and I’ll see all the class back on Wednesday! 🙂

Mrs O’Neil

Hi everybody!

I hope you have been enjoying reading our fortnightly catch-ups about our learning. Please click the link below for our curriculum newsletter which tells you all about the learning coming up over the next term,

Termly Newsletter Kilmaurs Jan-April

Mrs O’Neil

Welcome back to our P4/5 blog! I can’t believe we are at the end of our first month in 2022 already!

Literacy

Pupils have been really enjoying their work on Scots vocabulary. In our reading we have been using strategies to help us identify the meaning of unknown words. We looked in detail at our Scots poem ‘Last Nicht’ and used our strategies to work out what our poem was about! We used our learning to retell the main events of the poem.

In writing we have been working extremely hard! We wrote descriptions in Scots and we even included alliteration!

A peerie puggie wis painting a Scots flag.

The crabit coo cooking cookies.

A braw broon brock wis blawing up balloons.

We have also been reading a variety of poetry styles and identifying the features of them. This week we created our own cinquain poems. These poems have a structure based around the number of syllables in the lines.

In spelling, we are focusing on silent letters. Pupils are taking part in a variety of activities to build their confidence spelling words with silent letters. We have been on phoneme hunts, timed spelling activities, fixing the errors and much more!

Numeracy

In Maths our pupils have been outside measuring heights and lengths using various measuring tools. They particularly enjoyed using a trundle wheel to measure the length of the playground. Can you believe it’s 66 metres- not quite the length of a football pitch which we discovered measures 91 metres.

 

In number work, pupils are building on their strategies for multiplying. We have played games and used our knowledge to solve problems. Pupils are becoming more and more confident everyday!

FRENCH

In French learners have been greeting one another and expressing how they are feeling.
Please ask your child Ca va aujourd’hui ? How are you today?And hopefully they will reply with

Through fun songs, rhymes and interactive games learners have been counting to 20 in French and are now able to recognise the French number words. This week’s challenge is to learn numbers up to 100.

PE

Pupils really enjoyed their first lesson in gymnastics. Pupils worked together to create a variety of balances.

IDL

Our first topic this term is all about Scotland and Scottish inventors. Pupils have been learning about timelines. They worked in duos to research Scottish inventions and to order them correctly using a timeline. Pupils were very impressed with all the wonderful inventions that came from Scottish inventors.

We have also looked at examples of Pop Art and created our own Scots vocabulary pop art! We researched how tartan was made and looked carefully at colours and horizontal and vertical lines to make our own!

Calendars

Pupils have also worked hard on their own calendars for 2022 to bring home. They designed a cartoon back ground to add their photo into. The finished calendars are fabulous!

Well done P4/5 for all your hard work!

Thank you for reading our Blog post and we’ll be back soon with another update.

Remember to check Teams for any important information.

Mrs O’Neil and Mrs Howat 🙂