Primary 5a Blog – Awesome October (not alliterative, but sounds good nonetheless!)
Before the October break P5 shared an important message with the school at the Church Service. Through the story of the sister with the odd socks, we told everyone that it is fine to be different. Sophie realised that the message was that we should still treat everybody with the same respect and kindness.
In Social Studies we have continued exploration of the lives of Native Americans. We looked at a variety of non-fiction books to find out as many facts as we could. We learned the legend of dream catchers, then in Art we weaved our own models so we could let the bad dreams get caught in the web and the good dreams float down to us on the feathers.
In ICT, Felix has been loving the coding and has expanded his work with Scratch to make a whole story with the nine levels. Scarlett and Alice have enjoyed using code to change the colour of their character.
In French we have been learning to sing a song about Ma Famille, teaching us about possessive pronouns and family members. Eshan has told us about sa soeur et son frere.
In PE Oliver has loved having a cricket specialist in to teach new skills. Evan has loved the parkour tig in gymnastics.
In Grammar we have been learning about both types of apostrophes and IT’S Logan’S favourite thing! 🙂
We loved the visit from Dekko comics to teach us more about Dyslexia.
Literacy and Numeracy
Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.
This month we have been working hard on our growth mindset and attitude to learning and trying new or difficult things. Rosie was really proud that she won the Growth Mindset Character competition with her friends. Lucy has now managed to master riding her bike; even though it wasn’t easy, she kept at it! Other sporting achievers included Drew, who jumped 3m in athletics. Aaron and Alice have both started playing rugby and are really getting stuck in. Amelia was thinking back to her summer achievement of surfing on the body board. Logan is learning to turn in skiing. Laaibah is getting better and better at swimming and Alex swam 1 kilometre. Sophie did exciting high up things at Treezone and has got all of her dance exams.
Caris has been learning Gaelic words; this is her grandma’s first language! Oliver finished a large and difficult piece of lego. Innes worked hard around the house, doing chores to earn his own money; this has also helped him realise the value of things. Emma is getting better at the piano, practising Jingle Bells every day. Rachael has been helping out at home and is loving coding. Ella has also been helping, by looking after Squiggle, when she is not doing back-bends with a kick over! Bryony has been very mature, kind and caring, helping her dad after he had an accident. Katie has been developing her leadership skills by becoming a sixer at Brownies.
