Monthly Archives: May 2013
What an excellent day we had today with the Scottish Opera company. We worked hard between 10 and 12, putting together the words which we had learned with Mrs Hunter and in class, adding in the choreography and movement from the team at Scottish Opera.
After lunch we performed our dress rehearsal to the P3/4 and P4 – it was great to have a real audience for our dress rehearsal.
At 2.15pm we performed to parents/carers – and what a spectacular show it was . . . It really made us think about the rainforest, demonstrating the key messages within biodiversity and sustainability.
We’d like to thank Mrs Hunter for all her hard work when learning the songs, in addition to the team at Scottish Opera (including Roger’s visit earlier this month) for all their hard work!
Mr Cook is busy putting together the video which he filmed with a somewhat shaky hand – it should be available later on in the week . . .
Term 4 Week 6 News and Week 7 Homework
We used pastels and watercolour for our geothermal pictures this week. The Travelling Gallery introduced us to lots of interesting ideas and helped us understand what the artists were showing us through their art. We had our “Changes” SHaRE session and we know about ways our bodies change as we prepare to become adults.
Homework Week 7
Spellings (x2)
Maths sheet for TJ group – Money revision or EXT TB pages
Storywriting on Thursday – Write a newspaper report about our Scottish Opera performance.
Scottish Opera on Wednesday – come in PE kit and remember a packed lunch and extra water to keep you going throughout the day. Rehearsing and performing can be a thirsty job!
Term 4 Week 6 Homework
The JRSOs have devised a competition to encourage pupils to walk to school. The class with the highest percentage of pupils who walk to school will win a special fuzzy JRSO logobug for each classmate!
Lets try to support this Walk to School Week event.
Spellings (x2)
Language – Page 6 Proverbs
Maths – EXT TB Pages E2/E4 or Whole Numbers Revision sheets
Travelling Art Gallery Bus coming on Thursday to share an exhibition with us.
Trip Money £10 due by Friday 24 May. We appreciate the many offers from parents to be helpers on our visits. We will notify you if you have been successful!
Many thanks for donations to the Blythswood Food Bank.
Bio energy art using tissue paper.
Competition time again!
Following on from our success with getting third place in the JDP Recycling Four Seasons competition (Well done Lucy and partner!), we have created poems for the Power of Poetry Competition. We worked on using techniques commonly found in a range of poetry e.g. alliteration, metaphors, similes, personification, rhythm and rhyme and linked this to our current topic. We have picked a few to share with you.
All because of Global Warming…
Ice melting like it was never there
Greenhouse gases drifting through the air.
Rapid rivers will soon disappear.
All because of Global Warming…
Petrified penguins screaming help
Are we not able to hear their yelp?
They can’t write so they can’t spell help
All because of Global Warming…
No more rainforest trees
No more monkeys swinging with ease.
No more big strong breeze
All because of Global Warming…
So next time don’t use the car
Even if it’s not that far.
Just listen to the words we’ve said…
“All because of Global Warming…”
Amy and Aaron
Life is Beautiful
As the resting Redwoods doze,
To the beat of the wind,
As the plump peaceful panda
Eats bamboo in its paradise
We applause the apple trees
For their sweet, sour gifts
As the beautiful bees make the honeycomb hives with huge honey pots.
As the gas destroys our sheltering shield
We cannot live in this harmful heat
Try to save some fossil fuel
Help us end this deadening duel.
Griffin and Jack
Global Warming
The pulse of the earth is slowly dying
While we want it to be more satisfying.
We need to think of solar
Otherwise there will be no Polar.
We take trees for granted
But more need to be planted.
The air as fresh as bread
As people need fed.
Animals as soft as pillows
Stop cutting down willows.
The homes we live in
Is what we’re given.
Stop using fossil fuels
Treat them as jewels.
We need to care about this air
Or all the trees will be bare.
Keep the green grass, keep the clean air
Show you care.
Nina and Cara
Our Earth
The sun is shining
Water is flowing
Stars smiling
Air brightening
Protected pandas
Yummy bananas
Trees falling
Greenhouse gases groaning
Fossil fuels are dying
People are crying
Global warming
Is a warning
We can all start
If we play our part
So please don’t drive
Keep this earth alive.
Gregor and Grant
Renewable Energy Showcase
Pr 5 enjoyed sharing our Renewable energy experiments, technology work, class talks, fact files and information with the Pr 6 class yesterday afternoon. We had six groups set up (Solar, Wind, Wave/Tidal, Bioenergy, Geothermal and Hydro) and the Pr 6’s visited each group for a 10 minute presentation.We appreciated their positive listening skills and interest. We hope you learned lots of information about renewable energy. When we go to Findhorn for our visit we hope to see some of these energy saving processes in real life.
Term 4 Week 5
Spellings (x2)
Maths – Shape Quiz
Language – Prepositions Page 5
Remember Blythswood Food Bank = Tins of potatoes and packets of biscuits. Thank you for all the donations brought in so far.
Money for School Trip by May 24 2013.
Story writing – finishing poem for competition and writing a report about technology work (experiments/models)
Renewable energy news
We have been using a variety of art techniques over the past three weeks and created some pictures with a renewable energy theme. We got a bit of sunshine on Wednesday and Thursday mornings to melt sone chocolate in our “solar cooker”!
We’ve been very impressed with the high standard of work put into the class talks. We are noting down a fact from each person’s talk and we get feedback about our presentation skills. We are becoming renewable energy experts. We hope to share our knowledge with the Pr 6 pupils next week.
Renewable Energy Technology Groups
We started our technology work this week. The Hydro Energy group made a water turbine. The wind energy group made model wind turbines and tested a mini turbine outside – the light and buzzer worked really well. We are waiting for the sun to shine to make our solar cooker with all the pieces ready for a good day. The Bio Energy group are amazed at the increasing temperatures inside the bag of grass cuttings!
We have shared some of our Renewable Energy Class Talk presentations and everyone has worked very hard.
