Our topic this term is The Scottish Wars of Independence.  We have been learning about the important people during this time, such as King Alexander III and King Edward I. This week we have been focussing on William Wallace and the Battle of Stirling Bridge. We enjoyed creating our own shields and look forward to using them in drama when we recreate the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

We are also very excited about our visit to Stirling Castle next week to learn more!

Stay posted for pictures!

Welcome back to the P5/1 class blog.

We have all settled in well and are ready for the exciting term ahead of us.

Follow our class blog to keep up to date with what we have been learning , as well as any exciting news from P5.

We hope you are enjoying the Blog.  There will be more to come next session as the Blog follows the class through their time at Cross Arthurlie.

Social Studies

We have been learning about the Vikings. We have been creating PowerPoints with partners.  We have also been making names in Viking letters.  The class made a big long ships and everyone made a Viking to go on it.

Numeracy

We have been working in our groups.  The Squares have been learning about weight and division with remainders. The Triangles have been working on co-ordinates and their lefts and rights to get to their destinations.  The Rectangles have been working on adding and subtracting skills.

Literacy

We have been writing creating our own myths.

Art

We have been creating a Viking for our long boats.  We have also been making our names with paper straws and stuck them down on a piece of card. We created posters for the Neilston Show to describe what we think it looks like.

By Emma (Class Blog Committee).

PE

We have been playing hockey and learning to play netball.

Literacy

In class we have been writing stories about the favourite books that we have read.

Social Studies

We have been learning about the Vikings. We learned lots of interesting facts about the Vikings here are some of them:

– Viking hats don’t actually have horns on them, it was just a metal helmet to protect your head.

– Viking long ships were also named dragon ships and they could hold up to one hundred and twenty people on them.

Now we want to learn more about how the Vikings made their jewellery and their weapons.

ICT

We have been learning how to send emails. We have also been learning how to use the shape tools and draw fancy shapes. It has been very fun drawing with the tools and emailing people.

Modern Languages

In French we have been learning about French words to describe the weather when it is raining, sunny, cold and warm.

Health and Wellbeing

We have been learning about the food pyramid and the food groups:  dairy, carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables, protein and fat.

Information from Ben.

Written by Emma (Class Blog Committee).

Numeracy

The Triangles group have been learning the multiplication table of 6 and the Squares have been learning the multiplication table of 9 and easy tricks to help us recall the facts.

Literacy

We have been reading passages and answering questions in full sentences.  We are learning to show that we comprehend the text we are reading.

Art

We have been making Glaswegian Charles Rennie Macintosh windows.  We really enjoyed this.

ICT

We have been making graphs and using different fonts.   We have been having fun playing different games to develop our maths skills.

Modern Languages

In French we have been learning numbers up to forty. We have also been learning how to say our birthday in French.

RMEd

We have been learning the Jewish religion. We have also been learning about Shabbat.

PE

We are enjoying playing football and basketball.

Information by Ava.

By Emma (Class Blog Committee).

Art

We painted pictures then we went on to the computer and wrote a poem.  Then we stuck it down to the painting.   We have been making Christmas cards; we drew a snowman looking out a window onto a hill.  For the background we sponge painted it to make it look like sunset.

Numeracy

We have been learning our multiplication tables of 4, 5 and 6.  We have also been learning how to use a calculation to divide.

PE

We have been learning how to play golf with Mrs Mitchell in PE and we have been playing football with Mrs Brown.

ICT

We have been playing on Education City to help us learn our multiplication tables.  We have also been going on road safety sites to revise our road safety topic; we have been playing games about road safety too.

Glasgow Trip

We went on a trip to Glasgow on the open top bus.  We were sightseeing and these are a few things we saw on our trip:  grave yards, the Finnieston crane, the SSE hydro, the Armadillo, the Science Centre, and many more exciting places.   We went to the Riverside Museum and we had lots of fun.

Information by Leigha and Kayla.

By Emma (Class Blog Committee).

RMEd

In RME we are learning about Judaism.  We have been learning about Shabbat.  Shabbat is when nobody works from Friday night at sunset until Saturday.  This happens every week.

Numeracy

In Maths we have been learning about Roman numerals.  We know know how to count from 1 to 21 in Roman numerals.  It was very interesting to know how people used to count.

ICT

We have been learning how to make bar graphs on Microsoft Excel in ICT. It was fun making our own graphs.

Reading

During class we have been reading James and the Giant Peach.  We usually read at least one chapter a day.  We also made a diary entry for James.

Literacy

In literacy we have made ‘I am’ poems which was really fun because we got to make pictures about it.  For example, we would write I am smart and confident etc.

Information from David, Jessica, Calleigh and Lyla.

By Emma (Class Blog Committee).

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