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Scottish Water Visit

March 11, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Today Primary 5 enjoyed a visit from Norma Alexander who works for Scottish Water. This visit was planned to promote our Global Storylines topic which is based on the theme of water. Norma shared lots of interesting facts about water consumption for us and those who live in developing countries. The children got to monitor the dripping tap and participate in a group activity about how to use water sensibly. A fun afternoon was had by all and the children even got a souvenir ruler and sticker to take home.

High School Visit

March 10, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Yesterday Primary 5 went to St Margaret’s for a half day visit. They got a tour around the school by some of the third year pupils and they visited many different departments such as Music, English and Science. Everyone took part in a group Maths Challenge which proved to be trickier than they first thought! It was a fun morning and they are already looking forward to a full day visit next year in Primary 6.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 9th of March 2015

March 6, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Chapters 1-3 Moons – Chapters 1&2 Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – aeroplane, butterfly, beautiful, centre, biscuit, emotion, enough, happened, interesting and listened.

Consonants – tell, large, spell, still, saw, something, small and give.

Practice all common words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Squares

Complete worksheet. Remember to fold your sheet and put it inside your Homework Jotter.

Circles

10 divided by 10 = 5. 40 divided by 10 =
60 divided by 10 = 6. 80 divided by 10 =
100 divided by 100 = 7. 700 divided by 100 =
200 divided by 100 = 8. 500 divided by 100 =

PSHE

We will be starting our Focus on Food topic this week and I would like each child to bring in any food packages eg cartons, boxes, packets etc that you are finished with so that we can use them to discuss the nutritional information on the labels.

Please return cooking letters this week if you haven’t already done so.

Try to use your Stations of the Cross booklet to pray silently or with your family throughout the season of Lent.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Week beginning Monday 2nd of March 2015

February 27, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Chapters 1-3 Moons – Chapters 1&2 Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – seven, seventeen, clothes, garden, yesterday, swimming, sure, before, never, fruit, believe, decided, another, quiet and quite.

Consonants – learn, head, could, earth, found, there, were and number

Practice all common words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Squares

Complete worksheet. Remember to fold your sheet and put it inside your Homework Jotter.

Circles

Complete worksheet. Remember to fold your sheet and put it inside your Homework Jotter.

Use your multiplication grid to help you with your times tables.

PSHE

Complete Forgiveness activity sheet.

Try to use your Stations of the Cross booklet to pray silently or with your family throughout the season of Lent.

Fairtrade Fortnight = 23/2/15-6/3/15

Remember to bring in Fairtrade wrappers throughout Fairtrade Fortnight and exchange them for a Golden Token for your house!

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 23rd of February 2015

February 23, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Whole book Moons – Whole book Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – chief, scorch, charged, butcher, stretch, watching, pitch, capture, mature and culture.

Consonants – scratch, kitchen, blotch, itch, butch, fetch, batch and ketchup.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the new booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Squares

Complete worksheet. Remember to fold your sheet and put it inside your Homework Jotter.

Use your division grid to help you if you get stuck.

Circles

Complete worksheet. Remember to record all answers in your Homework jotter.

Fairtrade Fortnight = 23/2/15-6/3/15

Complete Fairtrade wordsearch.

Remember to bring in Fairtrade wrappers throughout Fairtrade Fortnight and exchange them for a Golden Token for your house!

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 16th of February 2015

February 16, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Chapters 3&4 Moons – Chapters 5&6 Stars – Pages 4-12

Spelling

Vowels – chance, cheese, challenge, kitchen, birdwatcher, blotchy, wretch, signature, temperature and furniture.

Consonants – match, ditch, patch, witch, stitch, catch, hatch and snatch.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the new booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Squares

Oral questioning of times tables from 6x – 9x

Useful Maths websites and links to visit for games and activities.

www.primarygames.com

www.woodlandsjunior.co.uk

www.supermathsworld.com

www.schoolworkout.co.uk

Circles

Complete worksheet. Remember to record all answers in your Homework jotter.

PSHE

Discuss each scenario and record your answers on the worksheet.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 2nd of February 2015

February 2, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Chapters 2&3 Moons – Chapters 3&4 Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, quickly, important and mumbled.

Consonants – gave, take, how, many, cold, every, right and where.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the new booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Squares

Work out the answers to each calculation using the double and halve method that we have been learning in class. Remember to show your working and complete all answers in your Homework Jotter.

25 x 14 = 2. 35 x 12 = 3. 45 x 16 = 4. 15 x 26 = 5. 15 x 14 =

Circles

Complete worksheet. Remember to show your working and complete all answers in your Homework jotter.

Topic

Complete water diary for one day out of your week. Record answers on the sheet and fold inside your Homework Jotter.
Practice saying History of the Vikings poem aloud.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Term 2 in Primary 5

February 2, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Throughout our second term in Primary 5 we have experienced lots of different learning opportunities. It has been a very busy and enjoyable time for the children. Here is a selection of photos to show off what we have been learning.

A very entertaining visit from Hopscotch Theatre Group to tell us the story of the St Andrew's Flag. — A very entertaining visit from Hopscotch Theatre Group to tell us the story of the St Andrew’s Flag.

Creating wax crayon pictures to sell at the Enterprise Fayre.

Displaying our praying hands to remember our loved ones who had died.

Dressing up in our brightest clothes for our 'Be Bright Day' Fashion Show. — Dressing up in our brightest clothes for our ‘Be Bright Day’ Fashion Show.

Showing off our flexible moves during gymnastics lessons in PE.

100_4025 — Showing confidence to demonstrate a forward roll to the rest of the class.

Practicing our fluency skills by reading aloud to a partner.

Showing off our social dancing skills at our St Andrew's Day Ceilidh. — Showing off our social dancing skills at our St Andrew’s Day Ceilidh.

Enjoying a wee treat of shortbread and irn bru with our friends to celebrate St Andrew's Day. — Enjoying a wee treat of shortbread and irn bru with our friends to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.

Using mosaics to create bright tesselations when learning about shape in Maths.

Exploring the works of Escher to create our own tesselations using a variety of shapes and colours.

Enjoying a question and answer session with an athlete from the Scottish Hockey team who competed in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

100_4098 — Demonstrating our hockey skills during a practical session.

Pass the Parcel fun at our Christmas party. — Pass the Parcel fun at our Christmas Party!

Dazzling dance moves from the Christmas Party!

We all enjoyed creating 'Elf Kisses' for one of our Christmas art lessons. — We all enjoyed creating ‘Elf Kisses’ for one of our Christmas art lessons.

We showed off our creative skills by making a great variety of Viking Longships.

100_4112 — Longships fit to sail the high seas!

Painting our own designs on our Viking Shields.

100_4163 — Using coloured pencils and pens to design a Viking Shield.

100_4184 — Using clay to create different styles of Viking Jewellery.

100_4191 — Using clay to create a variety of Viking weapons.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 26th of January 2015

January 23, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Chapter 1 Moons – Chapters 1&2 Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – washing, shuffle, generation collection, resolution, chef, chiffon, chicane, shoe and function.

Consonants –picture, mixture, creature, capture, adventure, nature, puncture and signature.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the new booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Maths

Squares

Work out the answers to each calculation using a function machine. Remember to show your working and complete all answers in your Homework Jotter.

19 x 24 = 2. 19 x 45 = 3. 19 x 28 = 4. 19 x 11 = 5. 19 x 67 =

Circles

Complete worksheet. Remember to show your working and complete all answers in your Homework jotter.

Music

Practice and learn words of ‘Red Yo-Yo’ song.

Please make sure your son/daughter completes their show and tell Vikings task if they haven’t already done so, in order to present their findings in class.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.

Homework – Week beginning Monday 19th of January 2015

January 16, 2015 Mrs Rooney Leave a comment

Reading

Suns – Non-fiction text Moons – Non-fiction text Stars – Whole book

Spelling

Vowels – shoulder, shriek, fraction, extinction, dictionary, machine, chalet, chute, brochure and relation.

Consonants –station, collection, ration, creation, operation, nation, portion and option.

Practice all words using a fun spelling task of your choice from the new booklet. Please choose a different task each week and date it to show when you have completed it.

Grammar

Complete homophones task on worksheet.

Maths

Complete worksheet. You can write answers on the sheet.

Remember to fold your sheet and put it inside your Homework Jotter.

Squares – Here is a good website to use to help you practice and learn your times tables.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/

Music

Practice and learn words of ‘Red Yo-Yo’ song.

Please return all homework in your folder by Friday.