This week we have been learning about biographies and taking notes during interviews we practiced on each other taking turns being the interviewer and interviewee. Our reading is progressing this week we focused on fluency and we have been listening to each other read and giving supportive feedback and next steps so we can all improve together.

Tuesday was Pancake day as well as making our own we problem solved to construct our own pancake that would flip, we worked out the ideal size, thickness and shape and flipped them with table tennis bats showcasing our innovation.

We performed our songs to the whole school at Assembly next week will we take part in the Fife workshop at Rothes Halls. This week we learnt about popular bible stories and produced fantastic artwork. It was our turn for PE in the community centre we took part in a Space cadet fitness challenge and we were puffed out at the end.

We have shocked ourselves as we read book in a day Roald Dahl’s informative but funny guide to staying safe on the railways next week will we follow this style and produce our own Safety guides to Kelty.

We were excited to see our mouldy bread experiment results and compare results within the class. We discovered that we may need to brush our teeth a bit more as our tongues had lots of germs and mould growth.

This week I have seen a big improvement in homework and this is very noticeable in their class work especially reading comprehension skills. We have been thinking about our future and completed a quiz to work out our talents and what job would suit us. The quiz gave us an animal as an comparison we had lots of bears who are caring and protective of others but have tenacity.

Mental maths is continuing to improve revising previous terms topics. This week we learnt about tangrams a Chinese puzzle made out of 7 geometric shapes. The puzzle pieces could be rearranged to make mountains, houses and nearly every animal you can think of. This developed our visual spatial awareness thinking about patterns and relationship between shapes.

Continuing with our topic changes this week’s science experiment looked the affect of environment on mould growth on bread. We learnt about the importance of a control and subjected our bread to unwashed hands, the classroom floor and even licked it! We had some bread left over so each pair chose a surface these decisions were well thought through including the handrail outside. We eagerly await the results in 2 weeks’ time to see if our predictions are correct.

Expressive Arts focused on a big change in our lives the process of aging. As a class we watched a video which showed a girl age speeded up from 3 years to 80 years. At the start the change was gradual but then alarmingly ramped up. We were each given half of an elderly persons face and had to complete the rest ensuring the proportions were correct which was tricky at first.

Hello from Primary 4/5. This week we kicked off with a juicy debate which became our writing assessment task. The subject ‘Should parents be allowed to limit their children’s screen time?’ Many arguments were impassioned as points included parents are not always a credible role model as they often excessively indulge in their phones and social media! A lot of new vocabulary was explored including hypocritical and ironic. We had a fun time with a lot of laughter. To improve our writing, a lesson was included on synonyms (replacement words) which are now displayed in the class as visual prompts for future tasks.

Numeracy has focused on mental maths cementing the link between multiplication and division. Our times tables are rapidly improving which is helping in our day-to-day maths lessons. Our topic has a STEM theme we are exploring changeable weather and commenced with a science activity to create our own Tsunami. Many of the class commented that this is the messiest lesson ever but many were successful and we made mini mangroves to stop the full the force of the Tsunami. Please note parents if there is a untidy bedroom, I have seen first hand super tidying up skills so you would never know a Tsunami had hit our classroom.

We are approaching our music concert so have been practising our songs and discussing the words which relate to motivation, self-belief, caring for the world and tolerance. Active schools PE is a continued success and we have many budding footballers. Bryanna homework task included making her own game which we shared with the class and played together. It had educational brownie points as it included maths skills. Well done Bryanna and all of Primary 4/5 who have worked very hard this week.