Category: Literacy

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Week Beg 22nd April

In Literacy this week we have been studying poetry.  During our Daily Literacy Lessons, we were reading poems and looking for examples of similes, onomatopoeia and personification in them!  We each chose our favourite poem from our readers and on Friday we had a Poetry Recital in class!  Everyone read with such confidence and enthusiasm.  It was good to hear different poems and we noticed that even if someone read the same poem as someone else it sounded different depending on the rhythm and what words were emphasised.
In writing, we continued with the theme of poetry by creating our own poems on the theme of ‘Once Upon a Dream’.  We are aiming to use different poetry techniques and punctuation to help the reader imagine our dream and to make our poems interesting.  We will let you know how they end up next week!

In maths, we are have been comparing and ordering fractions visually!  We were using a Fraction Wall to identify equivalent fractions too.   It’s been a challenge but with perseverance we are now experts at using the Fraction Wall to help us with our learning!

It was St Mark’s Feast Day and we celebrated with a whole school mass.  Mrs Sutherland hadn’t heard of our St Marks school song so we enjoyed teaching her! 😀

In music, we have started a new block of learning and we are learning how to compose our own song!  We created two lines on Thursday and can’t wait to make some more! 🎵

It’s been a very creative week in P5b!!

Next week we have our ‘Come and Learn with Me’ afternoon on Monday and our Learning Assembly on Friday.
We can’t wait to show off how fantastic we are!!

 

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WB 18th March

On Monday we did maths straight after break. In our maths lesson we were learning how to calculate the duration of thing using the chunking method. After lunch we did topic and it was really fun!  We created out Refugee Welcome Packs.

When we got in on Tuesday we did PE with Mr Farrell we did running,  jumping and throwing. The first line was 10 points, second line was 20 points and the last line was 50 points. Whoever got the beanbag outside of the MUGA got 100 points.

On Wednesday, we had Assembly first thing in the morning. P4B were talking  about litter and how we should stop because the wind will blow it into the sewers and it will affect the sea fishes.

When it was Thursday we wrote letters to refugees and put them into the refugee bags. We were then supposed to walk around the MUGA 15 times for SCIAF but it was too rainy so we could not.

On Friday we planted sunflowers for our class novel because at the start of the book they planted flowers! We are going to watch them grow in class then take them home to continue watching them.  Then we read “The Boy At The Back Of The Class” which was written by Onjali Q. Rauf.  We are so close to finishing the book.

Laughlin and Charlie signing off!

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WB 4.3.24

We are still collecting donations for our welcome pack projects for Refuweegee.  We have 1 more week to go before we can start to make packs.

We started a new block of PE lessons with Mr Farrel again.  This time our focus is on Athletics.  We had to time ourselves doing a 20m sprint.  We then divided the time by 20 to calculate the speed we ran at.

On Wednesday  we had assembly and Anas and Jessie had to do a speech.

Thursday was World Book Day and we took part in a live football and book themed quiz.  After lunch we have a Book Blether with Primary 4b.

On Friday we walked to the Barrhead Foundry to collect our World Book Day free books!!  When we got back to school we got to read them and then take part in a World Book Day Treasure Hunt organised by Mrs Farren.

By Shafwan and Ben.

 

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WB 26th February

James and Lacy announced our appeal to the whole school this week during assembly.   We are collecting pre loved toys and games to create welcome packs for refugee children who arrive in Scotland.  We are collecting for 2 weeks.

Our exposition writing was linked to our appeal as our writing was to persuade others to donate to our appeal.  We created posters on Canva and these letters and posters are displayed around the school.

In maths we finished our unit of measurement by exploring capacity.   We got to make an guess / estimates then accurately measure the volume of the water or liquid in the  bottles.   We then moved in to reading and writing decimal fractions!

During PE this week we worked with p2 to explore the loose parts outdoors making a variety of games, marble runs and obstacle courses.  On Friday, we had a game of rounders with P5A!

Father Joe came into p5  and we made our confessions before going to our mass  on Friday morning.  After mass on Friday we stayed to pray the Stations of the Cross we were happy with ourselves we all joined in and all prayed we also got the Eucharist.  🙂

 

By James and Jessica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WB 19.2.34

This week in P5b we were continuing our class novel called “The Boy At The Back Of The Class”. We managed to finish Chapter 13 and we will be starting Chapter 14.

We also started French after a while, we decided to revise French colours as we were trying to describe our partner in French. We described our hair, eye colour and skin with knowledge of our body parts in French we could say eyes and hair in French.

We had art after a while as well and we learned about Sarah Kwan, she is a great artist. We learned that she was from China but grew up in Scotland and felt Scottish. This inspired us to make our own drawing combining two different cultures. We had to combine Scotland with our own culture or a culture that we are interested in.

We had a very busy week in P5b and it was very fun!

By Inayah and Mohammed Almeer!

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WB 5th Feb Week 23

Languages Week Scotland:

The children enjoyed creating a multi-lingual colouring in book to celebrate Languages Week Scotland.  Pupils decided which country they wanted to focus on.  They researched the country making notes of interesting facts before creating the colouring in page sharing some famous landmarks from the country, the flag and including  some basic greetings in bubble writing too.
We are looking forward to sharing the finished book with the children in p3 and hope that learn about different countries and cultures from our book!!

Topic:

We have used all the information we have learned about ourselves from our discussions with parents at home and from our shoulder partner interviews  to create an ‘All About Me’ fact file.  We can identify and celebrate that we are all unique and that’s it’s ok to be different.

We have really enjoyed learning about different cultures and religions from our fabulous visitors.  Thank you so much for giving up your time and sharing with us what it was like to like somewhere else and share your culture and beliefs with us.

 

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WB 29.1.24

This week we have being doing our comprehension assessments.    In maths we were revising formal addition calculations and in PE we have been learning about striking and fielding.  On Tuesday we have to work well as a team to make an obstacle course for our team to get a ball from 1 place to another.   Today we continued developing our team working skills by playing rounders.  We have been also been learning to apply tactics when taking part in these activities games.

We are up to chapter 11  in our class novel ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ and have been enjoying learning about our own culture and others in our class.   Mohammed Almeer’s  mum came into class and spoke to us and P5a about her religion, her background and the culture in Pakistan.  We learned she can speak 5 languages!

By Shay and Kieva.

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WK 24th Jan

On Monday, we planned our recount for the book are reading called ‘The Boy at the Back the Class’.  We found out what he went through and the journey he travelled. Then we did some bar model work and place value in maths.

On Wednesday, we had assembly and we saw people from different parts of the school.

On Thursday we had ICT at the end of the day and we did edited a PowerPoint about Robert Burns changing the font, colour and adding images.

Then finally today we hosted our 3 Ceilidh dance.  We danced the Virginia Reel, the Dashing White Sargent and the Military 2 step.  At the end we did some drama based on ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’.

By Casey and Dani.

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WB 15th January

It has been a busy week in P5B!                        Our class novel is the book called ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. We have been hoping to reach the end of chapter 10 and we managed to do it!

We have also learned a new type of writing called recount writing.  Recount writing is when you recall and evaluate past experiences/adventures.

In math lessons, we have been doing more word problems using bar models, number lines and digit calculations.

By Laughlin and Lorena!

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