Happy New Year from everyone in P5b!!
We have had a very busy first week back!
We have been revising maths concepts this week and sharing the different strategies we each used to work out the answer to the questions given.
We enjoyed our independent learning time during maths this week some of us worked as a team try to beat the clock during ‘Hit the Button’ and some tried to create symmetrical patterns with blocks/Lego. Some children challenged themselves with trying tricky levels on ‘The Daily 10’ and we enjoyed sorting out the fraction pieces and exploring what different sized fractions looked like and comparing them to each other!
Mrs Sutherland noticed lots of excellent mathematical thinking and conversations happening!!
In music, we were listening to a lovely Scottish song and were able to identify the instruments we heard in the piece -penny whistle, bagpipes and guitar. We then sang along with the track and Mrs Carey played the guitar.
Our writing focus this term is recount writing. We started off our block by identifying the key components of example recount texts and looking at the language used to sequence the main events!!
Ask us at home to tell you the purpose of recount writing and the four key features of a recount writing.
We are excited to retell events and experiences.
In PE, we are continuing our block of ceilidh dancing lessons in preparation for our Stage Ceilidh! We worked with p5a and learned a new dance.
We started a new topic of striking and fielding! We had fun playing a game of Cone Collecting where we had to demonstrate our teamwork skills and had the chance to practise thinking about playing a game using tactics!
For our new class topic we will be learning about culture and diversity.
It has been busy first week!!
