All posts by Mrs Rooney

Poetry Competition

Well done to Ryan and Jack who were both winners in the Reigart Poetry Competition. Their poems were published within the anthology and they attended a reception to share their work and receive a certificate and a copy of the book. Keep up the marvellous writing boys.

Jamaican Fruit Tasting

We were all excited to taste different types of fruit which are grown in Jamaica. We tasted banana, pomegranate, papaya, passion fruit and mango. We used a table to record a description of each fruit and give it a rating out of ten. As you can see from our pictures, they were all very sweet and delicious!

Homework – Week Beginning Monday the 9th of June

Reading

Suns = whole book       Moons = whole book      Stars & Planets = read book daily

Spelling

Vowels and Consonants – Common Words

Glasgow, Airdrie, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Stirling, Edinburgh, Inverness, Perth, Ayr, Girvan, Dundee, Scots, city, castle and here.

Conundrums – sauce, pause, haunted, Paul, because and when.

Practice all words using a fun spelling activity.

Maths

Squares – Money task        Rectangles – Money task

Circles – Equivalent fractions task

Topic – Commonwealth Events

Can you find the names of 10 Commonwealth Events which the athletes will participate in?

Record your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Homework – Week Beginning Monday the 2nd of June

Reading

Suns = pages 75-92       Moons = chapters 8 & 9      Stars & Planets = read book daily

Spelling

Vowels and Consonants – Silent letters

comb, knee, knowledge, wrestle, wrong, hour, condemn, touch, wrapper and psalm.

Conundrums – point, coin, join, soil, their and some

Practice all words using a fun spelling activity.

Maths

Squares – Money word problems task        Rectangles – Money task

Circles – Equivalent fractions task

Topic – Fruity Facts

Can you find out which fruits are grown in Jamaica?

Record your answers in your Homework Jotter.

Homework – Week Beginning Monday 26th of May

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

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.