Literacy: 
Lucas- Our comprehension tasks have been about understanding words from the text. You need to read around the word to find clues.
Sophie C- In writing, we were learning how to use direct speech for when people are talking.
Talking and Listening:
To move away from the traditional “stand up and do a talk” as part of their talking and listening assessments, we are allowing the pupils to plan, practise and deliver a lesson where they are the teacher…
Ace- We are going to be the teacher soon so we had to write up a lesson plan for a lesson we will teach in either groups or to the whole class! For example, me, Jamie F and Ethan are going to be giving a maths lesson on times tables.
Inaaya- Our lesson is a circle time lesson (Health and Wellbeing) to build friendships in the class. We want them to self assess by showing thumbs like we do in class with Miss MacMillan.

Numeracy:
Ethan- The circles have learning how to find the perimeter and area of rectangles and squares.
Olivia- The triangles have been learning our 7x table! We practised by playing lots of games with timers, card games, board games and games on the chrome book.
Heena- The squares have been learning how to subtract 3 digit numbers and converting measure (cm and m).

Social Studies:
Jack- We have been exploring lots of different types of maps to see how they work and what they all have.

RME:
Harley- We have continued the story of Moses, we wrote the ten commandments in our words and then came up with our own.

Music:
Ava- We were learning how recreate songs and make our own music on the chromebooks (Chrome Music Lab). First, we wrote our names and listened to they song it made, then we were given the Star Wars theme tune and we had to pitch it to match!

Health and Wellbeing:
Kerr- We have been learning Social Dancing! We practised the gay gordons- it was hard!!!

I hope you all had a lovely well deserved break 🙂 The children have been very busy despite it being a short week!

Numeracy:
Isam- We have been learning to add and subtract 4 digit numbers.
Olivia- We did problem solving about multiplying by 6 and we multiplied 2 digit numbers by 6.
Sara- We have been practising subtracting using chimney sums and we also learned about function machines.

Literacy:
Jack- We did moving image this week, where we watched pixar La Luna, and we had free choice of what to write about. For example, we could write a poem, write instructions, write an ending or write a narrative.
Daisy- We also wrote winter acrostic poems and we shared them to the class!
Murdo- We also did true and false news, where we wrote about what we did over the holidays but we had to include 3 lies and our partner had to highlight which ones they think are false.

Modern Languages:
Evie- We did a Spanish lesson about the Disney film Encanto. We learned how to say the names of family members (e.g. Mum and Dad) and drew our own family tree using the Spanish words to label them.

Health and Wellbeing: 
Heena- We discussed New Years Resolutions and why people make make them and then we made Resolution Rainbows where we wrote ours in rainbows!
Sophie B- We played games in Circle Time to get to know people in the class better who we don’t play with. One was where we had to introduce our self to someone we don’t know very well and told them something we like, we then had to remember everything we said at the end!

Expressive Arts: 
Jamie F- We used different materials to make a picture showing that ‘every ending is a new beginning’ and discussed what that means to us.

RME: 
Matthew- We started the topic of Judaism and we learned about the story Moses. We drew the basket and wrote the feelings of Moses’ Mum, sister and Pharaohs daughter inside. We also drew the burning bush and discusses the symbolism. We then played a game about the ten plagues where Miss MacMillan shouted one of them and we did an action to represent them.

Thank you so much all your lovely gifts and wishes, you have been so kind and we are very thankful! We hope you all have a fantastic holiday and enjoy spending time with your families. We are very proud of each and every pupil as they have worked really hard this term and we are looking forward to seeing you again in the new year:)

P.S. We are glad you love the Christmas socks!

This week has been filled with Christmas themed tasks and lots of fun:)

Literacy:
The pupils watched the McDonalds Christmas Advert 2018 on Literacy Shed and answered various VIPERS (Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Explain, Retrieve, and Summarise)  questions. Then, they created either their own persuasive advert to campaign that reindeers need treats left out for them too, or they created instructions on how to prepare your home on Christmas Eve.

STEM:
The pupils were given a STEM challenge of creating a new and improved Santa’s Sleigh which had to be environmental friendly, aesthetically pleasing, high speed and aerodynamic . They created a design brief in groups and gave each other feedback to improve their design. Then, they built their sleigh and even came up with ways to make it move!

Christmas Crafts:
The class made some Christmas Tree decorations!

Christmas Quiz:

Games:

We also watched a movie with some popcorn and juice!
A nice little treat for all their hard work 🙂

Merry Christmas everyone!

Firstly, thank you to all the parent’s and carers who attended our Christmas Carol concert! The pupils worked really hard and they were so excited to preform- well done Primary 5 🙂 

Literacy:
Myra- We continued to work on inferences this week.
Sophie- We picked our own spelling words this week from words that we find difficult and spelled incorrectly in our spelling tests.

Numeracy: 
Harley- The circles were learning how to add and subtract 4 digit numbers.
Sara- We were revising multiplying 2 digit numbers and we also continued our work on function machines.
Murdo- We continued to practise multiplying by 6. We also multiplied 2 digit numbers by 6!

Social Studies: 
Christopher- We looked at schools throughout the decades and compared it to school today. We wrote down questions about what we would ask someone about school back in the 1960s and 1970s and then we listened to interviews from people who went to school then to answer our questions. We researched any unanswered questions on the Chromebooks.
Daisy- We then created a venn diagram comparing school in the 1960/70s to school in 2021. We also drew a a comparison of the different classroom and labelled them (e.g. chalk board vs smart board)

RME: 
Lewis- We learned about the 5Ks in Sikhism, their names and what they symbolise.

Woodland:
Jamie MacK- We used our sense outside to create a woodland poem. We were also bird watching using binoculars (RSPB Wild Challenge).

Expressive Arts:
Ethan- Following on from woodland, we created an advert or news report about why we should look after the planet and how we can help (RSPB Wild Challenge).

Health and Wellbeing: 
Morven- In Growth Mindset, we did silent graffiti about our learning this term and we also did another Growth Mindset Questionnaire to compare our results from the first lesson and a lot of us have really improved our mindsets!
Ace- Since it was the last week, we has free choice in the muga, so we picked parachute games! My favourite game was the shark attack game- it was really funny.

This week we had a bit of Christmas fun by wearing our Christmas jumpers and going to the present room (Friday 10th December)! However, we still had a very busy learning week.

Literacy:
Jamie F- We have continued to make inferences.
Harley- We finished off our mind maps.

Numeracy:
Ethan- We have continued practising BODMAS. Today we had crack codes it was really fun!
Murdo- We have been learning our to multiply by 6. We also practised direction and routes, and had to guide Bee Bots around obstacles!
Christopher- We have been practising bus top division and we also learned about function machines.

RME:
Daisy- We were learning about Sikh’s place of worship (Gurdwara). We took notes on a certain feature or fact about the temple (inside features, outside features, showing respect/rules and why people go) and then we did a jigsaw task where we went round and filled in our section in each person  in the group’s jotter.

Topic (Social Studies):
Taylor- We created shoe boxes that are inspired by interior designs

Expressive Arts: 
Isam- We have been rehearsing for the Christmas Carol Concert.

Health and Wellbeing:
Kerr- In growth mindset, we created our own ‘learning cereal boxes’ for example, mine was called Growth Krispies!
Sara- Due to the ice, we did indoor PE where we did a full body workout and we also did dancing. It was really fun but we were so tired (see pictures below of the end results!!).

Literacy:
Lewis- We have been learning about inferences! We use the clues in the text and what we already know to help us make an inference.
Ethan- In writing, we have continued with note-taking and we made a mind map about our learning in each subject.

Numeracy:
Kerr- The circles have been learning about BODMAS (the order of operations). It has been challenging but fun!
Ava- The triangles have been continuing to practise dividing 2 digit numbers with remainders. We have learned another strategy to help us (dots method).
Jamie F- The squares have been learning about symmetry and multiplying by 8 and 9.

Expressive Arts:
Cormac- We have been continuing our rehearsals for our Christmas concert! We are learning another two new songs!

Health and Wellbeing:
Sophie C- In the Muga, we have been continuing our hockey lessons. We were practising our dribbling skills by doing relay races where we had to control the ball in and out of each cone. Each round had more cones added.

Social Studies (Topic): 
Isam- We have been learning about interior design trends in Scotland throughout each decade. We took notes about each era and then we used them to create an interior design plan.

RME:
David- We have been continuing our topic of Sikhism. We went over the story of Guru Nanak and learned about how Sikhs celebrate Gurpurab (Guru Nanak’s birthday). We made a mind map about what they do two days before, one day before and on the day of Gurpurab.

Anti-Bullying:
Inaaya- Mrs Nasar came in to teach us about Bystander or Upstander. A bystander is someone who joins in, ignores or does not tell a teacher when they see someone being bullied. An upstander is someone who sticks up for the person, interferes or informs a teacher when someone is being bullied. We had a lot of honest discussions about who we think we are and how we can do better.

Road Safety Week:
Morven- It was road safety week this week so we were learning about road safety heros. We had a sorting acitvity where we had to decide if each action is not a hero thing to do or a hero.

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 🙂