Monthly Archives: May 2014

Homework – Week Beginning Monday 26th of May

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Reading

Suns = pages 52-74           Moons = chapters 6 & 7           Stars & Planets = read book daily

Spelling

Vowels and Consonants – Silent letters

knock, knife, kneel, climbing, answer,wrinkle, wreck, rhinoceros, honest and column.

Conundrums – draw, straw, lawn, claw, very, there

Practice all words using a fun spelling activity.

Maths

Squares – active money task        Rectangles – active money task

Circles – Fraction Problems (record all answers in your Homework Jotter)

1.  27 children are in a class. One third of them are girls.

a  How many girls are in the class?     b  How many boys are there?

2.  Alice got 30 birthday cards on her birthday. One fifth of them had money in them.

How many cards had money in them?

3.  It is 36 miles from my home town to Glasgow by train.  The train broke down when it reached a

quarter of the way.

a  How far had I travelled?    b  How far was I then from Glasgow?

4.  Most cats sleep for about a third of each day.

How many hours is this?

Topic

Can you find out 6 interesting facts about Jamaica?

Record your answers in bullet points in your Homework Jotter.

Commonwealth Run

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A big well done to everyone in Primary 5 who completed the St Serf’s Commonwealth Run last week at Rawyards. It was a great morning and luckily the weather remained dry for everyone.

Congratulations to our top 3 runners Ryan, Ben and Diogo who came in first, second and third place.

Planting

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We have been taking good care of our tomato and strawberry seeds making sure that they are watered daily and have plenty of sunlight. After one week, we noticed that the tomato seeds are beginning to grow but the strawberry seeds need more time as there are no signs of growing yet.

Marvelous Mapping

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We looked closely at a world map to discover which countries the fruit and vegetables which we eat are grown. We worked co-operatively in trios to help each other locate the country and then devise a key to show the origin of the foods. It was very interesting to locate the places that the fruit and vegetables which we worked with during our Farm to Fork visit were grown.

Farm to Fork

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Primary 5 visited their local Tesco store in Airdrie to participate in their Farm to Fork initiative. The children really enjoyed the experience and got the opportunity to visit the bakery as well as try out some tasty cheeses at the cheese counter. They toured the store and got to go behind the scenes to see the chillers, freezers and loading bays. It was a very informative and fun filled outing. As you can see by our pictures,  they all had a great morning!

Ready Steady Gallop!

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Primary 5 have had lots of fun taking part in an art competition to design a clydesdale horse. The winners will receive a sculpture of their design as well as having their art work on show in and around Hamilton. At the end of the summer, all of the horse sculptures will be auctioned to raise money for Kilbride Hospice. Good luck everyone!