This week we finished reading our class novel, Charlotte’s Web. We were learning about book reviews & wrote our own reviews to share our thoughts on the book.
We finished the week off by watching the film of Charlotte’s Web, so that we can compare the film to the book. We have already noticed lots of differences and can’t wait to discuss these further.
We had our second rugby session with Blair from Cumnock Rugby Club on Wednesday and are already getting better at passing the ball.
We have also started to practise our chess skills and are really enjoying getting to play against each other, trying to be more tactical.

This week we have been learning all about fractions and identifying them on a number line. We have also been exploring the link between fractions, decimals and percentages.

In literacy we have been learning to put words into alphabetical order, and what to do when two words start with the same letter.

We started learning the rules of chess again, in preparation for the chess championship next term. We had a great afternoon getting to play against everyone in the class. Those who have a good knowledge of all the pieces and rules were very helpful and supportive.

In art we started to explore different brush techniques in painting, and created our own pictures using the one stroke technique.

We started rugby sessions this week with Cumnock Rugby Club as part of our PE sessions.

We are getting very close to finishing our class novel Charlotte’s Web.

This week we were focussing on Main Ideas and we were picking out the main points and themes from the chapter.

In numeracy we have been exploring fractions and have been learning to identify fractions on a number line.

We were learning all about Kandinsky with Mrs Stewart and created our own pieces of artwork.

In RME we were learning all about the different religious festivals that people celebrate.

Today we participated in a live lesson with other East Ayrshire schools all about water pollution & saving the seas. We completed our own experiment to see the impact that pollution has on marine animals.

We’ve had another busy week in P5. On Monday we had Mrs Stewart and we were learning all about tessellation and created some of our own tessellation pictures.

We read some more of our novel study and we were talking about times when we have been given extra responsibility and allowed to do something ourselves for the first time.

On Wednesday we made our own pancakes. We were learning about the importance of good hygiene when preparing food, how to weigh & measure ingredients and how to safely use the cooker.

We have been looking for the signs of spring appearing now that we are in March and created our own spring pictures. We also had Discovery Dens on Wednesday and got the chance try a new activity.

We took part in a World Book Day quiz & had great fun trying to guess the different characters.