We looked at different products and how we could improve their design.
Pitch Day!
We grabbed the opportunity of a dry afternoon and got outside onto the pitch. Free time activities of football and various versions of Tig kept us amused and allowed us to burn off some energy. Good fun all round!
Spelling Outside
One of the activities we did today helped us revise spelling rules and create words using letter stones.
Have a look and listen to the following videos and see how we worked together to revise some of the spelling rules we have learned.
Autumn Artwork
Primary 5.17 have been using mixed media to create pictures to celebrate the autumnal festivals of Halloween and Bonfire Night. We used oil pastels and paper to create the pictures. I think you’ll agree that the end results are a work of art!
Listening games and leaf observing
We spent lots of time today thinking about what makes us good listeners and played some games to help remind us how we should focus and concentrate.
After this, we moved on to selecting, observing and recording information about the interesting leaves we found outside.
The Promise and leaf rubbing
After listening to the story The Promise, by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin, which was launched as a video animation on Monday in Scotland, we had some great discussions on nature, how being outside in nature makes us feel and how growing things is such a satisfying and happy and joyful experience . Here is a link to the website where you can listen to the story again and watch the animation too.
https://www.thepromise.earth/
We then went outside and collected some interesting leaves and made some beautiful leaf rubbings using colourful oil pastels.
Freaky Fun Friday
We had a lot of fun at the official opening of our fantastic new pitch! We enjoyed working our way around the sporting activities in our fancy dress!
Flower and leaf pressing
The week before the October holiday we all made and designed our fantastic high tech outdoor clip board flower presses (HTOCFP for short!) We went out into the ECO garden and collected some leaves and flowers to press.
We carefully placed the items we picked into our presses and stored them away in our folders till today when we opened them and had a good look at them on a light box. It was really exciting to see what happened to them over the two weeks.
Maths Week
We have been enjoying taking part in maths week. We learned about Leonardo Fibonacci and the number sequence he discovered. We have also been looking at symmetrical invertebrates and we took part in a maths treasure hunt outside. 
Card Games
Card games are a great way to enhance our numeracy skills in a fun and active way. 
