We had fun on Friday fundraising for and celebrating Comic Relief. It was great to see lots of us wearing red to support a great charity. We watched a video in class to find out how the money raised for Comic Relief is spent and who it helps. We also had lots of fun in the hall taking part in different fun challenges such as knocking down the skittles and the balloon race.

We continue to have Music lessons with Mrs Carey our specialist teacher. Today we were learning new rhythms and used the claves in a circle game. We also played a passing ball game to help us learn our rhythms and joined in with some singing.

Today we were learning the Oompa Loompa song from our class novel. We watched a dance tutorial to learn the dance steps. Everyone picked up the steps easily and our finished dance looked great.

Thank you to the members of our class who remembered to bring in one of their favourite books today to celebrate World Book Day. Each person was able to tell us a little about our their book and why they like it so much.
We also took part in an emoji quiz to guess some of our favourite children’s books.  Due to the  marvel of technology we  used artificial intelligence to allow us to take part in a question and answer session with Road Dahl and Mr Wonka! We each thought of a really interesting question to ask and got some interesting responses.
#Keep reading! 📚

Willy Wonka  requested our help. We were required to create a twenty second tv commercial to advertise one of his new sweet inventions that would persuade people to buy it. Firstly we shared our ideas in groups. Next we created a storyboard for our adverts then we rehearsed and filmed them. Take a look at this final advertisement from the Brilliant Buckets.
IMG_4666

We have been learning about physical and chemical reactions.
We observed what happened when we mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar. We saw bubbles forming and then the balloon placed on top of the bottle inflated proving that a gas had been released. We all enjoyed seeing a real chemical reaction up close.

As part of Languages Week Scotland we have been learning greetings from countries around the world. We have also taken part in a Mandarin challenge to extend our knowledge of China. Lastly we have been learning some British Sign Language. Below you can see us performing the Rainbow song in BSL.

Good luck to both Georgia and Ronnie who have successfully made it through the auditions to today’s  final of the XA Factor.  Ronnie will be displaying his DJ skills and Georgia will be performing gymnastics. We wish them both lots of luck.

Good luck also to Ava and Isla who will be opening the show with the Cross Arthurlie Dance Club!

A little while later…

Both P5 acts put in strong performances and we are very proud of them!

On Wednesday we had our first session of Gymnastics. We first of all discussed the importance of keeping ourselves safe and looking out for others by ensuring we check our equipment regularly. We worked in small groups and visited different stations allowing us the opportunity to practise balances, rolls and flips using the equipment. Many of us showed lots of creativity and confidence in our movements.

In Primary 5 we have been taking the fear out of fractions and inserting the fun. Some of us have been learning how to simplify and make equivalent fractions. This week we have also been learning to calculate fractions of amounts. We worked together in groups to complete fraction jigsaws.