Mr Atkinson’s comment:
I hope everyone enjoyed the October holiday! It has been a very busy week in P5B including the pupils getting their individual and sibling photographs.
Literacy and English
Working in groups we created a story mountain for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. First we drew a mountain, as it represents the story because just like a story climbing a mountain has a starting point, peak and an end. We organised information about settings and characters as well as main events into different categories such as the build-up events, problem, resolution and conclusion.
For our final class novel task Mr Atkinson challenged us to write a new ending to the story. We illustrated some of the events that we had changed and many of us added new thrilling plot twists!
We also created a VCOP wall display that we will use in our writing lessons. Each of us wrote either helpful vocabulary, connectives and openers and drew the different types of punctuation we can use in our sentences. Then we stuck them to our display.
Numeracy and Maths
We have been learning to divide and multiply by 10 and 100, created and checked our very own square and triangle numbers and we made timestables posters for our Maths display that we can use if we are unsure.
Health and Wellbeing
Our final Bounce Back lesson involved discussing what is perfection and how being perfect can sometimes lead to us worrying and experiencing problems. Instead we all agreed that trying our best and having a go at something is a better method of learning and living.
French
In French with Miss Campbell we finished drawing our Harry Potter characters and then we labelled parts of their appearance by writing what they were in French such as the type of clothing being worn or the colour of them.
IDL – Scotland and Japan
We have been continuing to learn about Japan and make comparisons with Scotland. Using the Chromebooks we researched facts and took notes on famous people from both countries and further explored landmarks by learning about what some of them are made from, where they are located, why they were built, how much it is to visit them and how old they are.
Expressive Art
After leaving our clay models of characters from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to dry we then painted them and most of us have taken them home this week.
With Miss Campbell we made butterflies by using origami which is a Japanese art of folding paper and then we decorated them.
