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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! 🙂

Welcome back Primary 5A!

Primary 5A have all settled well into the year and are enjoying the new routines of P5. Have a look what we have been up to this week:

STEM

We have been learning about materials and the way that they can change into different substances. This week we had 5 different stations that we visited to learn more about changing substances: melting chocolate, melting and freezing ice cubes, dissolving salt in water, a video station and a worksheet station!

Alice said: “I liked the chocolate station because we got to heat the chocolate and see it melting.”

Marcus said: “I also liked the chocolate melting station because it was like cooking. I liked seeing solids becoming liquids!”

Kamran said: “I liked watching the TigTags videos which were about dissolving and making substances change.”

Rachel said: “I liked the salt experiment because you got to see the salt dissolving in the water, it was quicker with warm water. The worksheet station was good because you had to discuss in your group what you thought made the substance change.”

Have a look at some of the pictures below:

Writing

This week we have been learning to write a personal recount. We wrote about our favourite days and focused on using excellent sentence openers, wow words and including detail in our writing.

Technologies

We have been enjoying using a range of technology since we came back to school! We have been learning how to use Google Classroom and having fun editing documents together and answering questions. We also have been incorporating Education City into each of our Numeracy lessons to reinforce the concept we are learning in a fun and interactive way.

Social Studies

Our new topic is China! We are excited to learn all about the culture, schooling system and geography. We have decided as a class what we want to learn and so far have drawn the panda (as it is Native to China) in Expressive Arts and began researching China through Technologies.

Friendly Reminder

A friendly reminder that swimming begins next Tuesday morning!

A week to remember in P5d

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