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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 Monday 15th April

This week has been a really busy week and really fun!

So first, we had been learning about Ramadan and we made boxes to add a date and our Ramadan biscuits with a apple to represent the crescent moon. We also watched Mohamed Almeer’s Ramadan presentation and it was amazing!

In maths we were learning about making a profit and loss. A profit is for an example if you buy a pack of Apples for £3 and you sell it for £4 that is a profit,

Written by Lorena and Inayah

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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 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 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!

See google classroom for photos/videos. Thank you for reading the blog.

 

 

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Happy New Year!! Week 19 learning!


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!!

 

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Week 16 and 17 Learning

We have had a very busy 2 weeks at school!  Here are some of the things that have been happening inside our class.

Today we could wear our Christmas jumpers to school we loved seeing everyone looking so bright and colourful!  Some jumpers had lights and music and some people had Christmas themed headbands!!

This morning we visited p6 for their ‘Grow £5’ event!  What an amazing amount of products and events to take part in.  Our favourites were the hot chocolate cones, the bracelets and the reindeer balloons.   Mrs Sutherland loved the ‘Knock the Santa Cups down’ stall, she thought it was a great idea to have things to do and not only things to buy! Very creative!

We took part in a live event about the Ancient Egyptians.  It was pretty interesting because it taught us about artefacts and we learned about a new artefact called a ‘Shabti’.  A small Egyptian figure that was placed in the sarcophagus with the mummy to help remind the person to carry out specific tasks in the afterlife.
We got to ask the presenter questions which he answers LIVE!!  We were excited to see Primary 5a also ask questions!   We saw a sarcophagus, canopic jars and some other artefacts which are usually displayed in the museum.

Our writing focus this term has been information writing.  Last week, we wrote about Brilliant Barrhead sharing lots of information about where we live, the Dams to Darnley and the Foundry.   This week we independently wrote a piece  about the Egyptians using all the knowledge we had learned about them since August.

In music, we learned to play ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ on glockenspiel and bells.   We had to listen to each other and work together to keep the rhythm.

In DLL, our readings book have been play scripts.  We have been working on expression and pace when reading out loud the plays to each other.   We then started acting them out developing our understanding of a character.  On Monday we are going to be performing them to everyone in the class.  During independent learning time, some people enjoyed having a chance to act out other people’s scripts too!  We are really enjoying acting and doing drama with our literacy lessons.

During our independent learning time, we have been doing measurement with the Kapla blocks, creating intricate Christmas themed models with the Kapla such as making Santa’s house, a church and Santa’s elves with lego.  With the circuit board we made the fan spin and it flew.  We have been busy designing an app for the Make it Happen Festive App competition!! We have been using our creative skills, thinking skills and problem solving skills.

On Friday afternoon we were invited to watch the dress rehearsal of the primary 2 Nativity!  We are so proud of our family and friends in p2 who performed confidently and were fabulous and entertaining!

Our Health and Well being lessons are on the theme of Relationships this term.  So far we have focused on how to be a good friend and  showing empathy.  We enjoyed identifying the qualities that would make a perfect friend and then creating the perfect potion with these ingredients!  We also enjoyed acting out scenarios showing empathy to others.

Enjoy your weekend,

Alfie, Arya and Mrs Sutherland.

See Google Classroom for videos of music and photos of our creations.

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WB 18th September -Music Lessons

P5b have been enjoying music lessons with Mrs Carey.  We have been learning about rhythm and pitch! We have been using our focusing skills and our team working skills when working in groups to throw and catch the ball in time with the song.
Mrs Carey taught us a new song which has actions.  Ask us to teach you it at home!!

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