{"id":5,"date":"2022-09-16T05:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/primary5b2223\/?p=5"},"modified":"2022-09-16T05:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:07:43","slug":"so-far-so-good-mid-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/primary5b2223\/2022\/09\/16\/so-far-so-good-mid-september\/","title":{"rendered":"So far, so good \u2013 mid September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time has flown \u2013 it\u2019s been a month now since we\u2019ve been back. Well, at least, some of us have \u00a0been back a month, Mr Burns decided that the seven weeks during summer wasn\u2019t enough and took another week off \u2013 I suppose he\u2019s not getting any younger and needs the rest. He\u2019ll certainly need more of it by the time we\u2019re finished with him, not to mention his domestic situation. Anyway, although we know each other pretty well already from over the last few years we spent a bit of time at the start making sure that everyone was comfortable with their new class through some games and activities. We\u2019ve also been getting to know Mr Burns, Gabriel, Florence and Genevieve too, and his ways. (He keeps mentioning that his wife Mrs Burns works at the school too but we don\u2019t remember her, someone had a vague recollection from over three years ago but that was it). We like the Peak of the Week treasure chest, which is now based on the presentation of our jotters (he goes on and on about that, but we know he just wants us to be proud of what we produce), his Friday raffle and his birthday routine especially. We\u2019ve had quite a few birthdays already, including Our Lady\u2019s, and it was especially interesting to hear from Mr Burns where he gets his \u00a31 coins from\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also spent a bit of time of setting up the classroom and routines. We have an Achievement Wall (which can be light-hearted) which is designed to celebrate achievements in school and at home. Our Class Charter has been made and agreed and our Google Classroom for homework is up and running.<\/p>\n

In terms of work, we\u2019re right back into the swing of things. We\u2019ve written a couple of personal stories (favourite gift, best holiday), a friendship poem and now we\u2019ve moved on to some imaginative writing. We\u2019ve also been practising our reading strategies \u2013 understanding words, finding information and identifying the main idea. The focus in grammar has been nouns, adjectives and the different verb tenses and the different ways of saying these. In Maths we all spent some time at the start doing calculations surrounding the four operations. Then some of us focused a wee bit more on adding and subtracting (including thousands), some of us on multiplication calculations and others on basic equations and BODMAS. We all listen to everything and we all spend quite a lot of time practising our mention and problem solving strategies. Mr Burns has set a challenge for us all to improve our multiplication tables. In R.E. we\u2019ve talked about being a Laudato Si school, the need for vocations, Our Lady\u2019s birthday (as mentioned), learned Mr Burns\u2019 morning prayer and listed the twelve apostles whilst talking about the difference between a disciple and an apostle. Our topic has been chosen based on Scottish history \u2013 we came up with a hit list on what we would like to learn about. We started with famous Scottish inventions, quite cool what Scotland has come up with, major inventions like the television and telephone \u2013 the first flushing toilet too! In P.E. our focus is Fitness for now, but we\u2019ve managed to incorporate that into some games. Outdoor Learning has started too and on the very first day of that we headed to the Muddy Movers area which was great fun.<\/p>\n

Lots of hard work to come now Mr Burns says, but in a fun way too we\u2019re sure. He wants us to do our best, give the best account of ourselves. We will.<\/p>\n

Speak soon.<\/p>\n

P5b girls and boys<\/p>\n