P5 had a great time learning about Lunar New Year from our classmate. The children then created their own red lantern and decorated it to make it as bright and beautiful as possible! We will decorate our class with the lanterns to bring luck and good wealth!!
WB Wed 14th Feb
Even though this week has been very short we have done a lot of things.
On Wednesday we had an Ash Wednesday service and most of us got our ashes.
On Thursday we learnt a new type of writing called exposition writing , for music on that day we learnt a new rhythm that was very fun to learn . In our Technologies lesson with Mrs Guy we got to explore the programme Canva. We used it to create a new front cover for our class novel ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’.
Today for PE we were continuing with our striking and fielding lessons and before lunch we made an orange heart to say that everyone is welcome .
written by Jessie and Ben.
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.
Catholic Week Scotland 2023
Catholic Week Scotland started on Thursday 16th November which is also the Feast day of Saint Margaret of Scotland. We took time to learn about Margarets life and what she did that made her a saint.
We learned that she was a kind and loving lady who taught people to read and that she organised churches to be built so people could pray.
We identified a lady in our own life who is kind and caring like Margaret.
We then made a promise to God to be kind like Margaret.
Week 13 Learning 13th-17th November
This week we have been reading lots of books as it is Book Week Scotland. We redesigned the front cover of our favourite book, we went to the school library to get a book to borrow and yesterday we shared our favourite book to the class. People asked us questions about our book and switched books to have a wee read.
Book Bingo was fun because we got to learn about other peoples books.
This week we revealed our mummified apples. Two weeks ago we carved out a face, and put them in a cup covered with salt and baking soda. Today we noticed that the water/ juice had come out and they had gone rotten. One of the apples looked better as that was only covered in salt.
We know the Egyptians mummified apple to keep the to look like themselves in the afterlife.
Photos on Google Classroom.
By Reiss and Ivy
Week 11 – Week Beginning 30.10.23
During forest school we made cinnamon apples and roasted marshmallows and we created a leaf pile that we could jump into. It was also our last forest school session.
Last Friday, we went pond dipping at Dams to Darnley Country Park we went orienteering after that we went pond dipping with Anas’ mum and Ivy’s mum.
We also finished learning about the Glorious Mysteries and started learning about different Saints during home learning.
BEN AND LORENA
Photos of Forest School are on Google Classroom.
As this was our last forest school session, we will no longer need to wear PE kit to school on Monday’s.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs Sutherland
Week 8 WB 9th October.
We have had a busy week in class this week.
During Forest School, we were learning how to build a fire. We learned that we need tinder, kindling, and firewood. We got to practice setting up the wood ready to create our own campfire creating a ‘teepee’ type or a ‘jenga’ type. We are looking forward to lighting a fire and toasting marshmallows next time we are in the forest.
During PE, we have been working on different exercises to build up our stamina and fitness.
By Lorena.
WB 3rd October -Maths Week Scotland STEM Challenge
We had a great time making rockets for our STEM Challenge for Maths Week Scotland 2023.
We were developing our collaboration, curiosity, adapting, sense making and critical thinking skills during this task!
WB 25th September -Week 7 Learning.
When we did PE we got to choose 4 exercises to work on to improve out fitness. We did planks. wall sits, hula hooping and sprinting.
We were having very much fun until it started raining!
After PE reflected of our PE lesson and our choices.
We enjoyed it very much.
By Ivy and Casey.
WB 18th September -Week 6 Learning
This week p5b have been having fun in class. On Monday we went to forest school we learned how to tie knots and had some fun.
On Tuesday we did P.E with Mr Farrell.
On Wednesday in our maths groups, we were learning data for the squares, the circles were doing equations and the triangles were learning about directions.
By Clayton and Emmanuella.
