During January, primary 5 has had a wonderful time doing lots of exciting stuff and this post is about what happened at the last week of January.
Firstly we did comprehension on the Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe and we also did assessments,Measurement and Division. In French we learnt about more family members (la tante -Auntie and l’oncle – uncle). We played Literacy Planet on the chromebooks and we did number talks with Mrs Reid. In P.E we were learning about netball and with Miss Harvey we did Just dance and Joe Wicks. We did some grammar on possessive adjectives.
We included a picture of a Sad koala to represent how sad it is that January’s ending!
This term we have been working very hard at comprehension and learning about different types of questions. We have also had some people who got into The Lion King (our school show) after doing very well in their auditions. In maths all the groups are doing very well. They have been learning about multiplication, division and BODMAS. In writing we all wrote a Scottish Poem. Today is the Feast of St Cadoc so we have been learning about him this week and today we had a school mass to celebrate his feast day. In french we have learned how to say our family members (le père – dad and la mère – mum).
Miss Harvey told us about some very exciting competitions (Show Racism the Red Card and a Short Story Competition). We can’t wait to enter and we hope someone from our class wins!
Our new novel study in p5 is The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe. This week we were reading chapter 1 of The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe. Chapter 1 is called Lucy looks into the wardrobe. It is about 4 siblings who have been evacuated from their homes because of WWII and get sent to a big house in a rural area. While the 4 siblings are there the youngest child finds a magical wardrobe which leads to a place called Narnia and she bumps into a faun.
This week in Maths we have been learning lots. the Newtons have been learning about Area and Perimeter, the Aristotles have been learning about symmetry and the Pythagoras have continued with Fractions.
In writing we used our notes from World of Work week to create a new piece of text on our visitors.
In PE we continued learning about football. We worked on our dribbling skills this week! At the end of our lesson we relaxed by doing some Harry Potter yoga. We’re all big fans of the Harry Potter series. Even one of our groups is called Hogwarts!
As it was world of work week we watched an interview with David Walliams on his book Billionaire Boy. this was very interesting. We LOVE his books! One of our reading groups is named after David Walliams.
This week has been World of Work Week and we’ve been VERY lucky! We had lots of visitors come and speak to us about their fantastic jobs!
First on Monday we had Gary Lee Muir who spoke to us about his amazing football career. There’s lots of us in our class that want to be professional footballers or athletes so this was very interesting.
Then we had Mrs McCabe who work at the Avenue. She told us lots of interesting information about working there. Some of us even got to use the walkie talkies that they use at the Avenue! Mrs McCabe also left us our new class mascot, Newton!
Lastly we had Dr Seenan who spoke to us about working in a GP Practice. Her days a very busy!
On Tuesday we were extremely excited because we had Katie J from Capital Radio come in and speak to us about working on a radio station. There’s lots of us that want to follow in her footsteps!
On Wednesday we again had a really busy day with visitors. First we had Jennifer and Cat come and speak to us from Silverburn. We found out that Silverburn has a bee-hive on its roof! How cool?!
Then we had Mrs Singha speak to us about being a Business Analyst! We all pretended to be business analysts and worked in teams to come up with the best modifications for a new games console. We had a lot of fun!
Lastly we had Mrs McGregor who is a Construction Consultant come and speak to us. Again we worked in groups but this time we had to use newspaper and straws to build a very sturdy bridge! We all worked together brilliantly and created lots of cool bridges! Mrs McGregor thought we had done so well that we all got a Krispy Kreme donut! Yummy!
We learned a lot this week about real jobs and the skills we need to work on to be successful in our chosen careers. Thank you so much to all our speakers!
This week in Literacy we used our spelling words to create our own crosswords! This was very cool. On Wednesday for our writing task we created firework safety leaflets, this was very fun and now we all know how to be really safe around fireworks. For our reading lesson we looked at prediction, this was super fun because we got re-read parts of Harry Potter and pick clues out from the text to guess what happened next! We’re all excellent book detectives!
For our topic we learned about the Battle of Stirling Bridge, we were all very excited that Scotland won, woohoo! Some of us made Acrostic Poems and some of us wrote a diary entry to recap what we had learned about The Battle of Stirling Bridge. We’re redrafting these to show them off on our Topic Working Wall!!
In Art we focused on the finer details. We focused on small sections at a time to create a large poppy. Some of us coloured these in with watercolour during Golden Time on Friday. They were beautiful!
In Health & Wellbeing we’ve been creating a safe environment where we all feel comfortable to discuss our fears. We’re very supportive of each other! Miss Harvey felt lots of love and was very proud of us all!! We all got our flu vaccinations this week so afterwards we continued our Health and Wellbeing with a bit of a mindfulness meditation which was very relaxing and calming! You could hear a pin drop our class was so quiet!!
On Friday it was a rainy day so we did P.E. inside with Miss Flaherty, we really enjoyed getting to do a bit of Just Dance. It’s our favourite! Cian, Ubaid, Leo and Ryan C.C did the best dance so they showed the whole class again, we really enjoyed watching it! Well done boys!
Primary 5 has got off to a very good start so far! We have all settled in very nicely and are enjoying the challenges Primary 5 has brought so far!
This week in Maths the Aristotles and Pythagoras have been revising division. We learned different strategies to help us with this, including drawing pictures to ‘share it out’ and the school bus method! The Newtons have been learning about measuring length and converting between mm and cm. Himanshi said, “It was the favourite part of my week!”
Tarini’s favourite part of the week was on Thursday when we did a Halloween codebreaker in Maths because she enjoys cracking codes!
In writing we practiced writing in the style of someone else and continued a piece of writing called, The Creature. Miss Harvey really enjoyed reading them all!
Our topic for this term is The Scottish Wars of Independence. We’re all really enjoying finding out the history of our country. This week we’ve been learning about William Wallace! This has been very, very interesting and we can’t wait to find out more about the battles he fought in! We hope you enjoy the video about him below. 🤣🤣🤣
In P.E. we have been leading our own learning by each taking turns to decide on warm ups and drills to help us learn the game of football. We worked very well together in our teams and earned lots of points!
Because of all our hard work we ended the week on a very high note by making slime during Golden Time! However, I think we’ll all be hiding from Mr Campbell (and Miss Harvey) thanks to the mess we left behind… Oops!
This was only the mess on the table… You don’t even want to see the carpet! Whoopsie!
Welcome to our blog. Sit down, relax…even take your shoes off….
Here’s what’s been happening in the wonderful world of P4C.
In maths we’ve been learning about area and how to measure it. We created area robots.
We’ve also started a new novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’s fantastic so far we’ve met Charlie, a boy from a poor family who desperately wants to win the prize to visit Wonka’s factory.
This was only the mess on the table… You don’t even want to see the carpet! Whoopsie!
