In our final topic of the year we are learning about jobs and the roles people play in a business. We are also finding out more about food provenance and preparation.

We are exploring different ways of making decisions and we voted for the best name for our restaurant before choosing different texts to create for use in the restaurant. We made menus, posters, order sheets, signs and recipes using our knowledge of the features of these different texts.

Please see below for this week’s homework and other information.

READING

Read aloud and enjoy the poems you have been given. Practise one which you could read with expression in class on Friday.

MENTAL MATHS

Education City or Sumdog. EastRen Sumdog competition begins 1^st June.

SPELLING  

This week practise writing any tricky names of people who are important to you – friends and family. You could also think of places you like to visit and find out how to spell them. Choose no more than 10 words and REMEMBER CAPITAL LETTERS!

SSPCA visit this Wednesday. Please ask us what we learned.

Please come to our P3-P5 Pizza, Pakora and Poetry afternoon on 21^st June.  See letter for details and please note attendance by return.

Are you growing and looking after any plants at home? You could send a photo to share in class: schoolmail@braidbar.e-renfrew.sch.uk

When you eat dinner think about the food on your plate. Did it come from a plant? If so, which part? Is it still in its natural state or did it go through a process before you could eat it? (Like cocoa beans becoming chocolate)

Please see below for this week’s homework and other information.

Homework w.b. 21.05.18

READING

Rockets: M: Ch 1     T: Ch  2                W: Ch 3

Astronauts, Shooting Stars, Flying Saucers

M: Read first third of book

T: Read next third of book

W: Read to the end

MENTAL MATHS

M and W: Mental maths sheet             T and Thu: Education City or Sumdog

SPELLING  

M: Write all words twice and clarify orally.

T – Th: Do free choice active spelling activity from sheet.

Remember school is closed from Friday 25^th May – Tues 29^th May incl.

Movie night this Tuesday 22^nd May.

Please come to our P3-P5 Pizza, Pakora and Poetry afternoon on 21^st June.                   See letter for details.

Following an interest in plants during our recent Climate Zones mini topic we have been learning more in sciences.

We knew most of the main parts of a plant from previous learning but now better understand what they all do.

We understand that humans can eat many plants and named many foods we know that are plants or derived from plants. We tasted papaya – a fruit – and radish – a root.

IT TASTES LIKE MELON.

IT IS A BIT SPICY. I DON’T LIKE IT.

I CAN SEE THE SEEDS INSIDE.

THIS IS A ROOT BECAUSE IT GROWS DOWN INTO THE SOIL.

To better understand the variety of plants around us and what each species needs to grow we investigated plants in the school grounds and made notes and observational drawings. We are going to discuss what we saw and work out what it might tell us about different plants and the conditions they require to grow well.

Homework w.b. 14.05.18

CLIMATE ZONES RESEARCH PROJECT We have all been quite astounded at the interesting facts, carefully made posters, models and PowerPoints and the diverse presenting styles in our class. Thank you for all your support with this successful research task. We would like to invite you to join us at 2:50pm this Friday so we can share all of our wonderful work.

READING
Rockets: Read p65 – end this week
Astronauts: Read the whole book WITH EXPRESSION. You can share your story out loud with the class on Friday.
Shooting Stars: M p7-19, T p20-37, W p37-end
Flying Saucers: Read the whole book and share the facts you learn.

MENTAL MATHS
M and W: Mental maths sheet
T and Thu: Education City or Sumdog

SPELLING
M: Write all words twice and clarify orally.
T – Th: Do free choice active spelling activity from sheet.

SCIENCES Use what we have learned in class and try growing some plants at home!

Having worked hard at improving our notemaking, ICT and other skills this year we were ready to undertake some personal research.

After learning a little about the world’s four main climate zones in class we then chose which we wanted to learn more about and how we wanted to share our fantastic facts.

Here a just a few examples of our successful independent work:

Please see below for this week’s homework and other information.

Reading
CLIMATE ZONES RESEARCH PROJECT
This week you are asked to prepare something which you can share with your friends. You will be asked to present what you have found out IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You can make a poster, leaflet, Powerpoint, model… which we will share in class at the end of this week. Remember, you can decide how many of our climate zones you wish to talk about.

Spelling
M: Write all words twice and clarify orally.
T – Th: Do free choice active spelling activity from sheet.

Maths
M – W: Education City or Sumdog

• Carlota, a native Spanish speaker, is visiting us on Tuesday. Please ask us about what we learned.
• Please return Writing, Social Studies and Sciences work if you have not already done so.
• Please return photo requests and payment by Wednesday.
• Many of the children have been coming to class without a pencil in the past few weeks. Please ensure your child has two sharp pencils and a rubber in their pencil case. Thank you.

Both at Golden Time and other times in the week, we enjoying learning with friends.

Please see below for this week’s homework and other information.

Reading
CLIMATE ZONES RESEARCH PROJECT
This week your homework is to look online or visit the library to find facts about climate zones. You can choose just one of our climate zones (Tropical, Desert, Polar or Temperate) or more than one. Make simple notes using a mind map or list with bullet points in your jotter. Headings may include temperature, precipitation, plants, animals, homes, clothes, food…
Next week you are asked to present what you have found IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You can make a poster, leaflet, Powerpoint, model… which we will share in class at the end of the week.

Spelling
M: Write all words twice and clarify orally.
T – Th: Do free choice active spelling activity from sheet.

Maths
M and W: Mental maths sheet
T and Thu: Education City or Sumdog

• Giffnock Library visit on Tuesday 1st May from 9:10-10:40am. Please inform me if you are able to come along and help us get to and from the Library safely and join in with our learning.

•  Writing, Social Studies and Sciences work going home on Friday 4th May.
  • School closed on Monday 7th May
• Please bring in recycling items on Tues or Wed that we may be able to use to build homes for different climate zones on Wednesday afternoon.
• Many of the children have been coming to class without a pencil in the past few weeks. Please ensure your child has two sharp pencils and a rubber in their pencil case. Thank you.

23.04.18    Please see below for this week’s homework.

Reading
M: Read first third of text.
T: Read second third of text.
W: Read to end of text.
Th: Free choice reading

Spelling
M: Write all words twice and clarify orally.
T – Th: Do free choice active spelling activity from sheet.

Maths
M and W: Mental maths sheet
T and Thu: Education City or Sumdog

• We are undertaking learning in a World Explorer mini topic, learning about features of different climate zones. Ask us about tropical, desert, polar and temperate climates.
• School photographer in on Wednesday 25th April.
• This week we’ll be writing a recipe for a story. Talk about which ingredients you think a good story needs.
• When you are ready to return your Giffnock Library book, please bring it into school and we will take them all back together.
• Giffnock Library visit on Tuesday 1st May from 9:10-10:40am. Please inform me if you are able to come along and help us get to and from the Library safely and join in with our learning.
• Writing, Social Studies and Sciences work going home on Friday 4th May.