St Albert's P5 – Mrs Brightman's Class

On the last day of term, we had a challenge. Which group would be able to match up the fractions, decimals and percentages that were equivalent to each other the fastest?

It was a tight race to the finish with lots of confusions caused by the 0.01 and 0.1 decimals but we did it in the end! The equivalences are now on display in our classroom to try to help us to memorise them but here they are in case you’d like to know too!

(≡ means equivalent to)

1 ≡ 100% ≡ 1/1

0.5 ≡ 50% ≡ 1/2

0.25 ≡ 25% ≡ 1/4

0.75 ≡ 75% ≡ 3/4

0.1 ≡ 10% ≡ 1/10

0.01 ≡ 1% ≡ 1/100

P5 has collected over 4000 Dojo Points as a class so far this year! As our treat for breaking the next 1000 barrier, Mrs Brightman helped us to make our own pizzas. We mixed the dough, kneaded it, made a base shape then added toppings before wating them!

Two of us tried a chocolate pizza but it actually wasn’t that great! The cheese and tomato ones were the best and a few people brought their own additional toppings like onions and mushrooms!

Miss McCue is a student teacher and was helping us in P5 for most of last term.

During Golden Time on Fridays, she was running a great club called ‘Build It’ where we had free time to experiment with all sorts of construction materials.

Now Miss McCue’s placement has finished, we’ll miss her!

Before the holidays, we had a visit from two science specialists! They taught us about molecules and how all the matter in the universe is composed of atoms. We got to create some molecule models from little balls and sticks that represented the elements: oxygen, hydrogen and carbon.

It was amazing to find out that all sorts of things were made from just these three elements combined in different ways. Not just water (H2O – hydrogen and oxygen) but very complicated things like nail varnish remover and washing powder!

We all got a taste of what chemistry is really all about!

During Eco-Week, you all raised money with your Danceathon to sponsor a tiger through WWF! Look at what your money has done and the email from WWF below!

Thank you for making The St. Albert’s Primary into a Tiger Protector.
By giving your support you’re helping to write what could be the biggest conservation success of out time. We can’t do it without you!
This is The St. Albert’s Primary’s first edition of Tiger News. We’ve got lots of beautiful stories, videos and updates in store – can you share this with them? I hope you both enjoy reading it.

We’ve had a busy two weeks with our Tramway performance, a house trip for Venus to the Science Centre, assessments of our Term 3 work and an afternoon at the library. We also made pizzas as a reward for getting to 4000 Dojo points as a class and they were delicious!

Last week in Science week, we learned:

• that gravity and friction are forces
• about solids, liquids and gases
• that some changes are reversible and some are irreversible
• some words to label a skeleton like skull, pelvis and ribs
• to use the senses for describing
• about different molecules with our STEM
• what it feels to rehearse and perform on a real professional dance stage!

This week, we have:

• learned a new game in P.E. called Pirates where you have to steal from other teams
• had visitors from Glendale Gaelic school
• learned about Dewey Decimal system at Pollokshields Library
• given our opinions to the inspectors who are visiting after the holidays
• assessed our Term 3 learning
• thought about signs of spring and made arty crafty things for our wall
• learned about the legend of Robin Hood

Last Thursday, the sun shone on P5 (the only sunny day all week!) for our trip to Stirling Castle.

We had a fantastic visit seeing all the amazing parts of the castle that we had been learning about in class. We met the Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting and learned a dance with them! We saw the roasted peacocks and pig’s head ready in the kitchens for the banquet.

This week, P5 are creating brochures about Stirling Castle based on our visit – watch this blog for some pictures of their fab work coming soon!

Time flies! Sorry that I haven’t popped these photos up before now.

Here are some of the fantastic costumes P5 came to school in for World Book Day!

We had a non-fiction focus – can you guess what we are all representing?

Answers:

Cookery Books

Books about service jobs like the police and armed forces

Books about celebrities like footballers

Books about sports like cricket

Books about living things…like ladybirds!

This week, we  have:

• Been on a school trip to Stirling Castle
• Learned how to find the average of 2 values
• Done many hours of dance rehearsal
• Learned how to split up larger numbers so we can divide them mentally
• Investigated how percentages, decimals and fractions are linked
• Learned different balances and jumps in gymnastics which will help us with our ballet performance
• Started making our own brochure for Stirling Castle
• Made up our own solos for our ballet performance
• Planted potatoes in the school garden for eco week
• Learned more about the bedrooms in the palace at Stirling Castle
• Planted our own sunflowers for eco week
• Visited the kitchen at Stirling castle and learned where all the different foods came from
• Learned about food webs and food chains in science
• Learned about endangered animals in an eco assembly
• Learned that we can make furniture out of natural resources such as trees.

This week we have been:

• we were learning about fair trade how it helps the environment  and it helps the farmers
• making pancakes because it was Shrove Tuesday  and we learned about Lent
• preparing  for our performance at the Tramway
• writing instructions for how to cut and dry peat
• different words for the operation in maths we have  been learning about non fiction books
• learning how to divide decimals
• multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100
• learning how to write sentences n the passive form
• making fair trade posters and we had a visitor who came in and told us about fair trade