Sharing the learning
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
As our social studies topic this term is the Ancient Egyptians, P5b were challenged to create a pyramid this week in the STEM area.
Have a look at some of our creations so far!
A mixture of pictures from a very busy week in P5a 😊.
The children have been enjoying private reading time in class 📚.
We were using the atlases to locate where Egypt is 🇪🇬.
Then to finish the week off, we played some rebound games to practise our hand to eye coordination 🎾 .
Well done to Annabelle for carrying out some super research at home about the Egyptians 😊.
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