St Albert's P5 – Mrs Brightman's Class

This week we have been learning about:

• bridging strategy in mental maths
• comparing castles to blakhouses
• making a new dance about little red riding hood
• muitiplying decimals in maths
• burning peat like in medieval times
• trying to beat our times at the number bounds challenge
• playing maths games
• learning the forms of defence castle had
• in PE we practiced balancing and jumping
• we learned about the continents of the world
• we learned how  to use a non fiction book’s index

Here we are enjoying our peat fire and singing the Gaelic song we learned a few weeks ago!

This week is our last before the February holiday. We have:

• Written a diary pretending to be 9 years old in the Middle Ages
• Finished reading The Worst Witch – we would give it 4.5 starts (out of 5)
• Started a new dance with Barrowland Ballet which we will perform at Tramway Theatre
• Created a Clan crest
• Rounded numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and whole number (some of us tried to 1 decimal place too!)
• Watched P7’s assembly on bullying and being a by-stander
• Talked about self-esteem in Circle Time
• Invited our parents to come in and look at all our hard work!

We are looking forward to going to Stirling Castle and our Tramway performance after the holiday!

– We learned about how people lived in Medieval times and about Black Houses
– We learned how to take away / subtract decimals
– We created our own tartans
– We baked muffins as a treat for reaching 3000 dojo points!
– We converted kg into grams
– We have almost finished The Worst Witch
– We did Big Writing about Medieval times and modern times
– We learned alternatives for the conjunctions so, but and because

It was an amazing week!

Here are some of the things we have been doing this month in Primary 5:

• Ballet performance with the Barrowland Ballet – look at our video
• Sang a Gaelic song ‘Side Fuar’ for our Burns Assembly
• We created silhouette pictures based on The Worst Witch
• Started our new topic Scottish Clans and Castles to learn more about history
• We had a judo taster session
• We are reading The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
• We are learning to take notes
• We have created a class charter from the Children’s Rights
• We are learning about angles and their names e.g. right angle, obtuse angle, acute angle, reflex and straight lines
• Changing fractions into decimals
• Learning about stretching in gymnastics
• Learning about our self-esteem and how to make other people think nice thoughts about themselves
• Chinese New Year
• Describing settings using adjectives, similes and synonyms

We have a second teacher in class with us called Miss McCue too – aren’t we lucky!

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