Mr Atkinson’s comment:
The pupils had a great time wearing their Christmas outfits and visiting the present room on Friday. They are also very excited about the P5 Christmas Carols performance which is next week! Thank you for supporting your child with learning their roles, parts and songs. Also unfortunately due to the wet weather aspects of P.E. and Outdoor Learning may take place in class for the time being.
Literacy and English
This week Mr Atkinson challenged us to apply everything we have learned about letters to write an informal letter to a relative that we haven’t seen in a while recounting all the highlights of P5 so far. We organised our writing into paragraphs, structured our letter in the correct format, used connectives to create more detailed sentences and included some contractions.
Numeracy and Maths
In Maths we have been adding four digit numbers together involving carrying, learning about directions and how to read a compass, writing times in the digital format and using our multiplication skills in word problems.
Health and Wellbeing
We enjoyed doing timed stations in the hall and because of they wet weather we also did a workout in class to keep building our fitness levels. Then we did Pokémon yoga for a cooldown which was great!
STEM the Flow
This week we build our prototypes and compared our creations with our Tinkercad designs and drawings. We made some changes to improve our models and we have now started to plan our project posters which we will present and vote on to be the P5B entry for the competition.
Science
In our science lesson we discussed some examples of renewable energy such as solar, tidal and wind power that inhabitants of an island could use instead of fossil fuel. We also applied our knowledge of bar graphs to record energy usage at different times of the day. We then debated as to why more energy was used between certain hours. Some reasons included that more energy is needed from 5:00pm to 9:00pm as it is dark so lights are turned on in houses.
Expressive Art
For our P5 Christmas show we designed tickets and some them will be used to send to parents and guardians inviting them to the performance.
