As we are progressing further through Second Level Maths we have been enjoying Active Maths tasks in class and solving challenge questions together.
Fundraising Fun day 😄
We had a great first day back at school with our Fundraising Fun Day!
We started the day with a pantomime by M&M productions – Sleeping beauty 👸
We then had a special author visit in the street and took part in lots of creative activities to create our own characters and stories.
We finished the day with sports activities outdoors with active schools and volunteers.
There is still time to donate on ParentPay ⭐️ thanks to all our family and friends for supporting us!
Gastronomers Showcase ⭐️
Many thanks to all of the family and friends of P5.17 who joined us for our Showcase today. We had a busy day in the kitchen cooking up 3 courses and turning the library into our very own restaurant 👩🏻🍳 🧑🏽🍳
Giglets and Autumn Art 📖🍂
Today we enjoyed a new text on Giglets called ‘Not Alone’, a short story about friendship and inclusion. We worked in pairs to answer Multiple Choice Questions and Higher Order Thinking Questions ✍🏼
Afterwards, we spent the afternoon in the art room and created an autumn tree using our hands and fingers. We discussed using longer brush strokes to create texture on the tree and mixing different colours together to make new shades.
Potato and Leek Soup 🥣
This afternoon we had our last rotation of Gastronomers and our Group 2 made potato and leek soup. We started by chopping leeks, potatoes, onions and garlic and added these to a pan with stock. After the vegetables were ready we blended them together and served🍴
French Fun 🇫🇷 and much more!
Today we enjoyed integrating French into our Literacy targets. We practiced recognising colours and numbers through our ‘Splat’ game on the tuff tray as well as a connect 4 colour game 🎲
Elsewhere, a rainy day led to cosmic yoga in our classroom with an exciting Pokémon theme. We enjoyed trying all of the different poses and going through a journey of battles with some classic characters ⚡️
We also received special books to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, a lovely gift that the whole class enjoyed reading before home
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Maths Week Scotland
It’s been lovely to be in class with 5.17 this week.
Here are some of the things we have been doing:
We took part in the Sumdog competition. We liked all of the games.
The Maths Leaders told us about Numeracy Blueprint boards and we used these to work on rounding numbers.
We did an outdoor scavenger hunt. The class enjoyed working with partners and it was great fun running to find the questions.
We practised our times tables whilst playing hockey!
We used chalk to create giant clocks with sticks.
We have been using our maths skills in the kitchen to calculate the weigh of ingredients needed.
Sourcing our Ingredients from our Eco-garden 🪴
Today we enjoyed a visit to the eco-garden where we spent time digging the potatoes and leeks that we planted last year with Miss Trouten.
We are going to use these ingredients in our next Gastronomers dish, potato and leek soup. We also collected some raspberries which were fully grown 🍓
Baking Shortbread 🏴🥣
Today Group 1 of Gastronomers were in the kitchen and continuing with our Scottish theme we made our own shortbread. We measured butter, sugar and flour before mixing and kneading our shortbread together.
After some decoration and a short time in the oven they were ready to eat! 😋
Remembering Queen Elizabeth
Today in P5.17 and across our school we celebrated the life of Queen Elizabeth. We began the day with a whole school assembly where we looked back on her life and many achievements and commitments.
We then looked at memories of the Queen from those at Mearns and in our class, it was great to hear the many different stories from those who had met her along the years.
We then enjoyed some cucumber sandwiches and shortbread in her memory together in class.
