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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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Solo Talk Presentations!

 

Wow!!  Primary 5b have been working hard at home researching and preparing for their presentations on our class topic Ancient Egypt!!

We have enjoyed the presentations and learning about Egyptian cats, pyramids, Gods and the Egyptians masks to name a few of the topics!

The children were demonstrating lovely listening and super sitting skills showing respect and giving encouragement for their peers who were presenting.

Thank you so much to those at home who helped the children prepare such wonderful presentations.

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WB 4th September -Week 5 Egyptian Artwork

 

Look at this amazing piece of Egyptian art that Arya brought in to share with the class.

Primary 5b enjoyed looking the picture.  We noticed the colours were amazingly bright and that the papyrus felt a little bit crispy, hard and grainy.

We also noticed the people in the painting were wearing eye make up and that there was symbols drawn on the walls.  We wondered what the symbols meant.🤔

Thank you so much for sharing your precious art with us Arya.

 

 

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Let’s go fly a kite!

As part of our topic we have been looking at traditional toys. Primary 2 created their own kites using paper and art straws. We had the perfect windy day to test them out.

This was an excellent opportunity to practise essential cutting skills.

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