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A week to remember in P5d

Primary 5d have had another action packed week.

Engineering:

On Monday we were very lucky to have a visit from some Civil Engineers.  After learning about some projects that civil engineers carry out, we took part in an activity investigating and demonstrating ‘Flood Risk’. We had great fun!

Remembrance:

This week, especially, we remembered all those special to us who have died.  We have learned about Remembrance Day and we did some activities to show our respect for those people.

Science:

In our next topic in science, we are going to be learning about Biodiversity.  This week we discussed what a diverse range of living things we have on our planet.  We are looking forward to investigating this further.

On Tuesday, we went out to the Chestnut garden to identify some living things in our local environment. We are looking forward to learning about habitats, species and ecosystems.

 

Reading:

We had a very chilled out morning in the library this week. We selected a book and found a really comfortable place to unwind and read.  Keep up the rich reading P5d!

Maths:

We are really enjoying having more active fun, in class and outdoors, with our maths learning.  This week, we continued using lots of active materials as we learn about division, fractions and decimal fractions.

Well done P5d! Keep up all the fantastic work 🙂

 

Learning Lots in P5d!

P5d have had a fun filled week  with lots of active learning.

STEM: 

We have been learning about chemical changes. This week, we did a fantastic experiment to show how chemical reactions happen. We followed the scientific method to prove when one or more substance reacts together it makes a different substance.

Outdoor Learning Day: 

Yesterday was Outdoor Learning day.  We planted lettuce and garlic chives. First, we put some compost into trays. Then, we sprinkled some of the seeds into the tray.  After that, we put some more compost on top and gave them a drink of water.

We have put them in our classroom windows and we are going to water them every day.  They need sunlight and water to grow. When they start growing we are going to each take a little bit home in our own pots. We are planning to recycle pots from home.

Good ideas for these pots include big yoghurt pots, butter cartons, ice cream cartons or bottles cut in half. We are also going to bring a bottle to school, so that we can water the lettuce in class.  When our seeds have grown, we are looking forward to eating them.

“I liked doing this because we are going to get to eat it when it grows. It was fun to measure how much compost we needed.” (Ethan)

“I liked it because we can make things out of what we grow.” (Laibah)

“I would love to grow tomatoes and basil so that we could make soup, pizza or pasta.” (Cara, Lewis & Lucas)

“I think potatoes would be great to grow because I like them and we could make chips, wedges or crisps.” (Lucy, Finn & Lewis)

“We could maybe grow strawberries.” (Joseph)

“We could make carrot soup if we grew carrots.” (Brodie)

Maths: 

We have been working really hard this week at maths. We have been learning about fractions. We can recognise equivalent fractions, simplify and order fractions. We can also find quantities of a fraction. We have had lots of fun with big materials and games as well as recording our work in a jotter.

Well done P5d on another hectic week! 🙂

Primary 5A

We have had such a busy week back after the October holiday!

STEM

This week in Science, we were learning about chemical changes through a Halloween themed lesson using pumpkins. We started by writing a hypothesis and predicting what we thought would happen when we mixed different substances together and then poured them into our pumpkins.

Some of us thought that the pumpkin would explode and some of us thought it might even change colour!

We found that when the reactants were mixed together, it created a chemical reaction causing the mixture to bubble up and overflow from the pumpkin! We had so much fun!

Outdoor Learning

We were creating beautiful artwork using natural materials in outdoor learning! Have a look below:

PE

We started basketball in PE today and loved practising their skills in the Mugga! We had a go at shooting as well.

 

Another busy week in P5d

Primary 5d have been very busy active this week.

STEM: 

This week, they planned, designed and constructed a model using KNEX.  There were some wonderfully inventive and ambitious structures.  Well done P5!

         

PE: 

P5d have been enjoying having the sports leaders from St.Ninians down working with them.  This week they were working on fitness and basketball.

Outdoor Learning: 

P5 have been learning all about China.  They were particularly interested in the Great Wall of China, which they researched and found out facts about.

Today, they used sticks, blocks, wood, stones and chalk to recreate their own Great Walls.

They had great fun in the sun 🙂 Well done P5d!

Another busy and productive week in P5d.

Have a lovely October break everyone!

P5d Reflect on another busy week!

This week has been another busy week with plenty of fun and learning.

Our Lady of the Missions 60th Birthday

This week we went to St. Vincent’s church for Mass. We celebrated our schools 60th birthday. “Brodie”

It was a beautiful Mass and we all enjoyed a day of celebration for our school.  It was very interesting to learn some facts about the school and when it opened.  It was funny to think that our school opened with four children!

P.E. St. Ninians – Sports Leaders

On Tuesday afternoon, we went to St. Ninian’s to do sports.  We did athletics circuits. “Maya”

My favourite station was the hurdling one. “Ellie-Angel”

I liked the speed bounce one because you had to try and jump over the hurdle from side to side. “Vincent”

It was a fantastic opportunity for us to develop our fitness skills in St. Ninians with the sports leaders.  The stations were great fun and everyone really enjoyed themselves.  Thanks to everyone at St. Ninians for organising it for us.

STEM

This week, in the STEM room, we learned about changes of matter; solids, liquids and gases. I liked the sorting activity.  (Mirin)

   

Well done Primary 5 on another jammed packed week.  Have a lovely weekend!

Welcome back Primary 5!

This week was our first full week in Primary 5d.  We had a very busy week.  We were getting used to our new routine, our new classroom and our new teacher.

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This afternoon, we are reflecting on some of the things we did this week.

“We went to the STEM room, on Tuesday, with Miss Collins and Miss Gavin.  We did a science experiment.  We created a chemical reaction using vinegar and salt.  The solution cleaned a copper coin. I loved doing this because it was an active task and I had never done it before.” Lewis

“On Monday and Thursday we did the daily mile and PE outside.  We did lots of active games.  It was great because I like being sporty and active.”  Maya

“On Wednesday, we made cookies for our class charter, using Microsoft Word on Laptops. Everyone created a different cookie.  We voted to make our charter theme ‘Cookies’.  I loved using the laptops because it was fun and after we got a chance to play some games.” Rocco

 

Well done P5d! You worked very hard on your first full week back at school.  Have a great weekend.

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