This week in literacy we focused on developing our visualisation skills with our new reading books, creating an image to represent the story and highlighting the key words that helped to build the image.

In PE we continued developing our badminton skills through games. We were able to use all the skills that we had been learning and put them into practice, playing short games with a partner.

This week in numeracy we continued learning about money, focusing on multiplying different amounts. We have been been multiplying pounds and pence by numbers between 1-10.

Up In The Morning Early – Robert Burns

Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure its winter fairly.

The birds sit chittering in the thorn,
A’ day they fare but sparely;
And lang’s the night frae e’en to morn,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure its winter fairly.

This week in numeracy we have started learning about money. We have been focusing on adding and subtracting to calculate a total and change.

This week we discussed different materials and the suitability of them for different purposes. The pupils were then set the challenge to design and create a bridge from a selection of different materials, choosing the material they thought would be the most suitable.

In literacy this week we were developing our prior knowledge skills with our new reading books. We looked at the title and the cover to give us clues to make predictions about the book.

Its been a busy week for Primary 5, we started the week with our Christmas party. Where we saw lots of great dance moves and played lots of games.

Then we enjoyed a fantastic trip to the pantomime on Thursday.

This week in literacy we wrote a review of the story ‘Matilda‘, using our skills from our report writing to help us.

In numeracy we have continued our learning on division and have started to use larger values. We have also been focusing on our times tables, practising a range of questions for all tables.

This week we had our Christmas Jumper Day.

We also started practicing our chess skills, playing against each other to prepare for the chess championships.

This week in literacy we looked at the features of a newspaper article. We then wrote our own article about the sinking of the Titanic, using both our topic knowledge and additional research about how the Titanic sank.

In numeracy we have started learning to divide using decimals. We have different stations set up during numeracy time to support our practice of division with remainders and our new learning.

During our Titanic topic, we were completing research on the sinking of the Titanic to support our writing. We had different research questions to guide our searches and were using different sources to ensure that the information was accurate.

On Thursday we held our Literacy Open Morning – thank you to all who were able to come along.

This week in numeracy we continued learning about division, focusing on remainders. We practiced different strategies of answering questions that have remainders such as using groupings.

This week in PE we were developing our hockey skills, focusing on having control and moving the ball.

This week we continued learning the skills of badminton in PE. We were practicing our serving and aiming by trying to maintain a rally.

This week in numeracy we have been focusing on division. We have been working on dividing 2 digit whole numbers by one number. We have been using arrays and grouping to help us solve our division questions.

In literacy we have been making inferences about the novel ‘Matilda’ using the clues in the words to find out more about the characters Matilda, Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey.

This week in P5 we have continued our Titanic topic and have been looking at different outfits that first, second and third class passengers would have worn. We then designed our own outfits using different collage materials.

In literacy this week we looked at the features of a letter and wrote letters as different passengers of the Titanic, using all of our knowledge learned so far to discuss what life would be like as a passenger.

In numeracy, we continued to look at multiples and factors using our whiteboards to help us divide to find factors.

Title:  Countries

You have been given a project to prepare and present a short 5 minute talk about a country of your choice. The presentation should be as detailed as possible and could include information about the climate, capital city, popular food, population, flag, famous buildings/landmarks, any other interesting details. You can use the internet or books to find out facts about your chosen country. You could also use other ideas to enhance your talk e.g. PowerPoint (saved on GLOW or a pen-drive), drawings, diagrams or items from home.

You should practise your talk at home as often as possible and use a timer to help. You may want to use notes or prompt cards to help you stay on track.

Talks should be ready to be present the week beginning Monday 17^th November.