P5a March Blog

STEM WEEK:

As part of STEM week we had a visit from BAM. We learned about the jobs of Civil Engineers and worked in two teams to build a bridge that we would be able to walk over.

Marcus said: “I liked screwing in the different parts of the bridge”. 

Rachel said: “I loved walking across it. It was really strong”. 

Louise said: “I liked connecting all of the cables together”. 

Emma said: “I liked when Miss Convery had to test if it was strong enough and walk over it first”. 

Thank you to everyone who came in to speak to us during STEM week – we loved hearing about the wide variety of jobs in engineering and the different workshops inspired many engineers of the future.

Numeracy:

This week we have been focusing on Area and Perimeter. We worked in teams to create robots with each part of the robot a different area and perimeter.

Special Achievements:

Well done to these talented girls who all did amazingly well in the Eco competition. Rachel came in 1st place with the winning poster! Alice, Dana, Poppy and Rebekah were Runners Up. Nice work 🙂

The House Certificate for March was awarded to Marcus for his excellent effort and attitude! Well Done Marcus.

Hope everybody enjoys the holiday! 5A are looking forward to a well deserved rest!

What a busy week in P5d!

Primary 5d have been very busy this week. They were out to impress with lots of active learning. See what fun they got up to.

Maths & Problem Solving: 

We had lots of fun using concrete materials to revisit our learning about equivalent fractions.  We used pro bots to follow and create directions to enhance our learning about compass points and angles.

“I enjoyed using the pro bots because it was challenging to get the hang of them but that was fun.  It helped us make shapes, straight lines and follow directions.” Lyle 

We got very creative and came up with three different strategies to solve a problem. We chose to draw it out, use concrete materials and to use the interactive whiteboard. After we had tested these strategies out we reflected on which strategy we thought worked the best and why.

I thought that drawing it out was the best strategy because you could rub it out and try again if you had done something wrong.” Lucy A 

I thought the concrete materials was the best way because you could stick them together and also I could see and touch them to know if I had the right combination or not.” Ethan 

   

STEM: 

We have been learning about types of forces. This week we explored and investigated what air resistance is.  We did three different activities to help us investigate the factors that affect air resistance

Movie Makers:

We have been working in groups to write, plan and film a drama scenario.  We chose a HWB topic that we have learned about and used that to help us create some super drama performances.  Watch this space for the videos 🙂  

Well done P5d, you have been working very hard.  Keep up the great work.  🙂

5A Numeracy/ Outdoor Learning

Time/Angles/Fractions:

This morning 5A took their learning outdoors! Some of us were using our knowledge of time to complete a treasure hunt!

Ruari said: “We had to find the different questions around the playground and we had to answer the time question correctly and then crack the code!”

Alice said “I enjoyed trying to crack the code! There were some tricky questions but I still managed to find the correct code!”

Some of us were using what we have been learning about Angles and Direction and creating numbers and pictures with different materials and marking the angles with cubes!

Timothy said: “I liked the task to create a picture and mark the angles. We created a house and then a monster and used cubes to show acute, obtuse, right, straight and reflex angles.”

Some of us were using chalk and natural materials to show different fractions! Conor said: “I liked doing active fraction work. I drew shapes with chalk and then  put natural materials inside different parts to show the fraction.”

Well Done 5A! 👍

P5d – Angles all around us!

We have been learning how to identify and classify angles using the terms: acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex.

We have been investigating angles in the environment and classifying them using appropriate mathematical vocabulary.

Today, we took our learning outdoors and searched for angles in our school environment.  We recorded our findings on worksheets and discussed the properties of the objects.

“We were looking for angles in the outdoor classroom. We found right angles, acute and obtuse angles. We did find some reflex angles in the tyre.  We worked in pairs. We recorded what we had found on a worksheet on clipboards.  We also discovered that there are angles in between our arms and legs.”   Shay & Rocco

“We liked looking for angles outside because we didn’t know that there were so many angles all around us.  It was more fun than doing indoor work.  We found lots of right angles but not a lot of reflex angles.”  Lucy McG & Mirin

Excellent Effort today P5d! Well done 🙂

Check out what Primary 5A have been doing!

PE- Tennis:

We have just started a block of tennis skills during our PE time! On Friday we began with practising our technique with partners and then individually. Have a look below:

Numeracy: Kahoot 

We love playing Kahoot in teams and have regularly being incorporating these into our Mental Maths!

 

STEM: Engineering 

Today we took part in an Engineering workshop! We began by thinking about what we already knew about the job of an engineer before thinking about the skills that an engineer would need to have. We will be taking part in a competition to try and win an Engineering Award! In the coming weeks we will begin our entries for this exciting competition.

We then took part in this Diamond Nine activity in which we decided which skills we felt were the most important in being an engineer!

 

Burns Day:

Have a look at the lovely tartan we wore for our Burns assembly and Ceilidh a few weeks ago!

St Ninians: P5A and B

We took part in a range of activities across different stations when we went to St Ninians! Have a look below.

              

Have a lovely February weekend everyone!

P5d Maths fun!

To consolidate our learning about fractions, we have been using active maths games and concrete materials.

This week, we used big materials to explore equivalent fractions.  We discovered which ones were the same and recorded that information in our jotter.

This was a great visual, fun way of exploring fractions.  Well done P5d, keep up the hard work 🙂

     

Primary 5A

First News:

P5a loved reading First News this week which will now be part of our weekly reading!

Van Gogh: Art 

We have been enjoying learning about Van Gogh this week in Art! Have a look at the fantastic Starry Night pictures that we created today. We practised our techniques and then used oil pastels to create our pictures!

  

Sports Leaders: Football Session 

We had a fantastic sports session on Monday with St Ninian’s sports leaders who played football games and taught us a range of different skills. Have a look below:

Numeracy Fun! 

We loved trying out a new Numeracy game ‘Times table Rock stars”. It is a fun interactive game which is helping us to practise our multiplication and division facts!

China presentations:

We have loved hearing everyone’s presentations on China! Thank you for all of the hard work that was put in to them. Everybody did a fabulous job!

Outdoor Learning: 

We consolidated the Numeracy we had been learning in class by taking our fractions work outside! Have a look below. We created improper fractions, equivalent fractions and mixed numbers!

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! 🙂

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