In RE, P5a were continuing to learn about traditional Celtic prayers this week.  Our focus was on St Patrick’s Breastplate this week.  It is a prayer asking God for protection, afterwards the class wrote their own prayers asking God for protection and thanking him for his love and guidance.

As part of our topic ‘Craigie to the Clyde’ and our learning about maps, p5 used the Ipads to explore Google Earth and create a journey along the River Clyde.  They dropped pins all along the river from Greenock through the City of Glasgow.  We loved seeing the 3D images of iconic landmarks such as the cruise ships in the port, the Riverside Museum and the Hydro.

We finished our Place Value topic in numeracy and Mrs Sutherland was so impressed with their speedy answers during the Topmarks ‘Daily 10’ quizzes.   P5 are experts at comparing, ordering, writing and identifying the value of 4 digit numbers!  P5 will be continuing to work on formal calculations and moving on to focus on mental calculations.

We took our learning outdoors on Friday searching for living, non-living and never been alive things in our playground.  We identified a variety of objects such as feathers, berries, leaves, paper and the wooden play apparatus and had great conversations deciding how to categorise them.  Ask the children at home what the 7 characteristics of livings things are!  Hint…MRS GREN!

We are looking forward to Pond Dipping on Friday 20th September!

Mrs Sutherland.