Literacy:
Ace- We have been practising how to find the main idea of a text.
Isam- In writing, we have been learning how to take notes by creating mind maps.

Numeracy:
Lewis- The triangles have been learning how to divide two digit numbers with exchanging and remainders. We have been using the hundreds, tens and units to help us! We also learned how to describe and follow routes.
Myra- The circles have been multiplying and dividing by 7, 8 and 9. We also learned how to design a graph.
Mariam- We have been practising the 8 times table and we have been revising symmetry.

Health and Wellbeing:
Kerr- In our growth mindset lesson, we made mindset trump cards (their picture with their own ratings of listening, hardworking, respectful and perseverance) and in the muga we continued our hockey lessons.

Science: 
Maya- In science we we learned about wind turbines and created our own (Glasgow Science Centre Renewable Challenge).

Expressive Arts:
Matthew- We have been rehearsing Christmas carols for our concert this week!

Expressive Arts:
Matthew- We also finished our block of drama lessons where we learned about freeze frames and we had to create a beginning, middle and end scenes of fairy tales as a team.

Topic:
Daisy- Using our mood boards from last weeks lesson on fashion through the decades, we created fashion models of what we would wear in that era versus what we would wear in 2021. We used lots of different materials and resources to create the clothing.

Literacy:
Kerr- We were learning how to find the main idea of a text.
Matthew- We did a mind map on what we learned, made our own success criteria and made our own story based on those.

Science/Literacy:
Jamie F- As part of book week Scotland, we did STEM a story. Our story was George’s Marvellous Experiments. We did two experiments from the book- it was really fun!

Numeracy:
Olivia- The triangles have continued working on dividing two digit numbers. We have been using hundreds, tens and units to help us carrying over.
Lucas- The circles have been revising multiplying by 7,8 and 9.
Inaaya- The squares have been learning about symmetry and dividing by 6 and 7.

Outdoor Learning:
David- We did a tree and leave hunt and investigation (RSPB Wild Challenge 2).

Expressive Arts:
Ava- In drama, we were learning about improvisation. We played word ball, story story out and then we did improv challenge cards.

Social Studies:
Daisy- We learned about fashion through the decades! We created a mood board on a specific era using the ChromeBooks.

RME:
Cormac- As part of our topic Sikhism, we learned about the story of Guru Nanak and had to sequence his story.

Health and Wellbeing:
Jack- In hockey, we were learning the skills of dribbling, passing and shooting.

Miss MacMillan  and Mrs Fry are really happy with the feedback from parent’s night and we are so proud of every single pupil’s progress! Well done Primary 5 🙂

Literacy:
Murdo- In writing we have been learning how to structure a story with a beginning, middle and end (plot).
Ava-  We have been learning how to answer literal questions.

Numeracy:
Yi Chen- The triangles have been dividing 2 digit numbers.
Mariam- The squares have been learning how to multiply and divide by 6 and 7.
Jamie MacK- The circles have learning about function machines.

Topic:
Ace- We have been learning about Scottish Inventors. We researched to create a mind map and a fact file.

Expressive Arts:
Sophie B- In drama, we were learning about hot seating. It was based on Scottish Inventors! We had to a play guessing game where the person in the hot seat within each group had to guess the invention. Then the person in the hot seat in front of the class had to take on the role of an inventor.

Health and Wellbeing:
Ethan- We have been learning how to dribble and shoot in hockey. We were playing games like King of The Ring and hockey tig.

RME: 
Myra- We have started the topic of Sikhism and we had to research on the Chromebooks things about the religion (Holy book, place of worship, symbol, important people, important festivals and interesting facts).

Outdoor Learning:
Evie- We were “looking closely” at nature outside using different types of magnifying equipment and we drew and labelled what we could see (part of the RSPB Wild Challenge).

I’m glad to hear everyone had a lovely Halloween weekend! I hope you all had a fun Break The Rules Day (you all looked great) and I also hope you have a great Guy Fawkes night.

Literacy:
Kerr- In writing, we were learning how to write a plot to an imaginative story. Our story was based on Bonfire Night!
Cormac- We have been learning about literal questions.

Numeracy:
Isam- The circles have been learning how to divide two digit numbers with exchanging and remainders.
YiChen- The triangles have been practising how to multiply two digit numbers with exchanging.
Evie- The squares have been learning how to multiply by six and we have been revising 3D shapes.

Health and Wellbeing:
Harley- This week in our Growth Mindset topic, we were learning about doom words. Doom words are words that restrict our learning.
Jamie- We also finished off football in the Muga and now we are learning how to dribble… but in hockey!

Science:
Myra- We have continued learning about COP26. We were in groups with discussion cards and had to share and compare our ideas with other groups. We also wrote our #PromiseToThePlanet on a leaf and made a Tree of Promises!

Expressive Arts:
David- We have started a block of drama lessons! Today we were learning about mime.

Outdoor Learning:
Lucas- We have been practising orienteering again this week, except, this time we picked where we were going to put our markers! We circled it on the map and swapped for other groups to find them.

Topic:
Morven- We continued our learning about primary and secondary sources. This week, we came up with our own research questions, looked through sources, created headers and took notes on our chosen era.

RME:
Jamie- We finished off learning about Show Racism The Red Card and we finished our posters!

Well done P5a our display looks amazing 🙂