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Our first school trip

 

This week we started practicing for our Yonah play Daniel Sabba is Yonah, I am God, Ben is the captain and Sergei and Rachel are sailors. We are all practicing at home and we are learning at school with Mrs Rosenberg.  On Thursday we all went to Diversity Day and we all got split into groups I was in the red group, we went to the stalls firsts and learnt about all the religions. I also put on a Sari and Mrs Rasool took a picture. After that we did dancing and then we did relay races in sport.  In our writing lesson we wrote instructions for how to make a fruit smoothie and next week we will make a fruit smoothie following the Star Writers instructions.  This week we also finished our labels for a honey jar and we stuck them on the jar and we are making lids for them but most of us are not finished that yet.

Oliver

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Two weeks into Primary Six

Last week we discussed the categories for foods and they were : carbohydrates, fruit and veg, dairy, meat, fats and sugars. We also got a piece of paper with a food wheel on it so we labelled it and drew the foods that fit in each of the categories. We discussed that a vegetarians food wheel would be different from a meat eaters. On Tuesday, we made labels for honey jars and on my label I had a slogan that said ‘Super Yummy Runny Honey’.  On Thursday, we got our reading books and my group got one called Cal’s Log. The blurb said it was about two teenagers who have been marooned on a rock called a stack but somebody has been there before them and will the clues that they find lead them to safety. In P.E we got partners so I got paired with my friend and we did high and low throws with two balls at the same time.

Daniel D

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The first week of school

Over the last two weeks in school we said our French animals. Miss Orchant and Mrs Kyle showed us the animals and they told us what they were in French and we repeated them. On the first day of school, Miss Orchant told us it would be hard to remember our names so we made name tags and we got to personalise the. We also started making a Kodesh poster, I was making the title with Lana and Hannah. Lately in maths we have been doing BODMAS work so we wrote it down from the TeeJay text book. For our writing we wrote instructions on any game we liked I choose twister. In P.E we were doing ball skills we did dribbling, throwing and catching. We also played Chinese football we all stood in a circle with our feet together and tried to hit the ball through each other’s legs.

Pippa

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Welcome to our class

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After the holidays, Primary 5 welcomed to the class a brand new Pupil, Kshitij Verma. This has been a lovely time for our class, getting to know Calderwood Lodge’s most recent addition. We thought it would be nice if everyone else in the school and all of our Blog followers, got the chance to get to know Kshitij a little bit better as well. We took on the role of journalists and we asked Kshitij some questions we thought you might all be interested in hearing.

• Kshitij, what school were you at before you joined us at Calderwood Lodge?

Blackfriars Primary School, Govan.

• How old were you when you learned to speak English?

Kshitij learnt to speak English at the age of 4.

• What are your hobbies?

I like running and swimming.

• Where were you born?

I was born in Delhi, India.

• What is your favourite book?

Diary of a wimpy kid.

• What do you want to be when you grow up?

I would like to be in the Police Department, hopefully C.I.D.

• Do you have a favourite memory you would like to share with us?

Probably when I went to Blackpool, that was a great memory.

• Do you have a favourite subject in school?

Maths.

Kshitij is a really kind boy and he is fitting in very well at Calderwood Lodge.

Welcome to Calderwood Lodge!

By Daniel and Talia.

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Primary 5 Class Novel

On Monday we started our class novel. The book is called, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts. This novel was written by Lari Don. Lari Don was born in Chile but moved to Scotland and went to school in Aberlour. She then went on to study at Glasgow Univeristy and now lives in Edinburgh.

We started reading this novel as a whole class a few months ago. Now we each have our own copy and it is now our Primary 5 Novel Study. First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts is a fiction text (we hope!) and is set in Scotland. The main character is called Helen. Helen encounters a whole other world and is drawn into it to help a team of fabled beasts in need.

So far, the whole class have been really enjoying this novel. It actually won the Royal Mail Award in 2009, a year after it was published.

We will be reading this in class and taking it home to read chapters in our own time too. We will be doing lots of follow up work on what the book is about .

So far, one of my favourite characters (Abi) is called Rona. She is a selkie (a seal when in water and a human on land). She is my favourite because she loves to sing and I think we have a lot in common (except perhaps for the seal part!).

Once we have finished this novel, we will hopefully move straight on to Lari’s next book, called Wolf Notes. This will keep us up to date with what Helen and all of her magical friends are up to.

Abi and Daniel

 

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World Book Week

This week was World Book Week and Calderwood marked the occasion with a whole bunch of activities, including speed reading, a book swap, treasure hunts and a whole school assembly.

The first thing we did was read to the nursery class. We were each paired up with one or two kids from the nursery and we chose books that we could read to them. Some people gave comments on how good the nursery kids were and some nursery kids gave feedback as to whether they liked the book that they had read to them. The next day, it was time for the book swap. Every pupil had brought in one or two books that they had already read or had finished with. They were all collected and separated into groups, genres and age ranges. We all then got the chance to go and select another book from the collection, that we could now keep. Thursday was also Purim and that meant that we linked World Book Day with our Calderwood Purim traditions and all dressed up as characters from a book. On our final day of World Book Week, we took part in speed reading activities and treasure hunts. These were great fun!

For the school assembly, each class performed in a different way, all celebrating books and reading. The Primary 5 class performed a poem. Have a wee look at it…

I love to read, I really do, it’s a favourite hobby of mine.
And when I find a book I love, my chair feels like Cloud 9.

I love to read all sorts of things, some fiction and some real.
They speak to me in all lots of ways, with such a great appeal.

As we get older the books we read, can get tricky from time to time.
But to give up before the end of the book would truly be such a crime!

When I get stuck on a tricky word, I know what I should do.
To help me work out what it says, there are rules that I stick to.

Sometimes I’ll look at the picture, that will always give me a clue.
And sometimes I’ll sound the word out, and wish that problem ‘adieu’.

If the word is a little bit longer, I will break it up into its parts.
Or find smaller words within it, I’ve now got this down to a fine art!

If I had to replace the tricky word, I think of a word in its place.
Would the sentence still make sense now? I ask myself if this is the case.

Once I have tried each of these tricks, I might try one or two things.
I could reach for a dictionary or thesaurus perhaps + see what joy this might bring.

Last but not least there is always, an option for help I could use .
Ask my teachers, parents or friends, from which I have so many to choose.

There is nothing quite like a really good book, I will read every day if I can.
I will read as many books before I’m 16, that’s my brand new World Book Day plan.

Thanks for reading our World Book Day Blog!
Oliver and Zainab

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Primary 5 Imaginative Writing

Our most recent piece of writing in Primary 5 this year has been focussed on using our imaginations. We were all given the same opening to an imaginative story and we had the power to make this story go wherever we wanted to go. Using our V.C.O.P wall and pyramids for help, we have to meet our lesson’s learning intention and success criteria and create a wonderful and interesting piece of imaginative writing. We have not quite finished these yet, but if you come back and visit our Blog next week, we will be able to show you some examples of our work.