Author: Miss Peattie

We have created this blog for anyone that could not make it last night to our open evening. These pictures show all our wall displays. We promise we will share our learning with you and talk you through each display.

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Primary 5 have been learning some Indian dancing for P.E. We have been recording our progress each week and assessing how we use our arms. On Wednesday we have a visit from P1/2 and we showed them some of our dance moves. We really enjoyed showing everyone our dance and we even got to teach them a little bit!

 

February Edition

 

We have been learning about line dancing and Bollywood dancing in P.E. We have been working on our hand movements. There is the lotus flower and the peacock. If your hands go above your head your wrists have to face the sky/heaven.

 

In taught writing we have been making instructions for a fairy tale character. It was because you got to choose your own. You have to include bossy language and steps in order.

 

The 19^th February was Chinese New Year. We have been learning about this in class. We made poems, lanterns and did a lot of research. This year is the year of the horned animal. There is an argument whether it is the year of the goat, ram or sheep. In class we learned about the goat.

 

In maths we have been learning about time. We have been trying to work out time problems. We have been trying to get faster at out times tables using speedy tables and Big Maths.

Primary 5 have been outside measuring items in the playground.

It is the end of our Scottish month in school and we have been working very hard to play our part. At the Scottish afternoon we sang ‘The Jeely Piece Song’ by Adam McNaughton and recited the poem ‘The Comin of the Wee Malkies’ by Stephen Mulrine. These songs were quite tricky at first because of the slang words. We went over them in school and got lots of help at home and now we can sing them perfectly!

Here are our thoughts on the Scottish Afternoon:

Emma: I thought the class was really good at The Coming of the Wee Malkies.

Jason: I liked the sassy movement we did at the end of our poem.

Anya: we realised we had missed a line in our poem but we remembered it on the day.

Cate: We all really enjoyed.

Fergus: I liked the Red Yo-Yo song P4/5 performed.

Cameron: I liked the Donald where’s your trousers song.

Bethany W: The whole school were talented singers.

Orla: I liked when the P7 girls performed a dance.

 

Our topic is Glasgow, this links in with our Scottish month. We learned that…

Charlie: Some parts of Glasgow are haunted.

Emma: In the olden days there were no electric things.

Jason: we learned that Gordon Ramsey, Gerard Butler, Alex Ferguson, Billy Connelly and Paolo Nutini were all born in Glasgow.

Gregor: we have been searching different times in Glasgow’s history.

Gabrielle: In WW2 there were bomb shelters all around Glasgow.

Rudi: Some of the factories in WW2 got bombed because they made planes.

Lewis: People from Glasgow took part in WW2.

Fergus: We researched and Created a ‘Weegie Dictonary’.

 

Primary 5 got a chance to go out and enjoy the snow today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary 5 have recently been on an adventure. We got on the local bus and made our way into Glasgow and then we jumped on a Glasgow Tour Bus. Here are some facts we learned while on the tour bus:

Anya: I learned that there are a lot of haunted places in Glasgow.

Charlie: I learned that witches were burned in Glasgow.

Jack: the tour bus told us all about the past in Glasgow.

Erin: we learned how statues were made and when they were built.

 

 

We came off the bus at Glasgow Green and went to The Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens for a look around and some lunch. Here are some of the things we learned at The Peoples Palace:

Lewis: I learned what it was like to live in the past. It looked a lot harder than today.

Julia: I learned that they had to do more work by hand.

Erin: I got see how people lived in the olden days.

Leah: we got to act out how they cleaned clothes.

 

 

Overall we had we had a great day and we were using our money skills from maths as well as planning the trip using timetables before we left. We are looking forward to the rest of our topic and writing our first E-Portfolio post next week about our trip!

 

Thank you for reading,

Primary 5 and Miss Peattie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two weeks ago we voted for group points in the classroom. We also voted an decided that the winning group would get a privilage. Some example are pillows on our seats, prize from the box, a small trophy or lining up first. The first winners were The Minions they chose pillows as their privilage. Here are photos of all of our groups and the new names we came up with.

For our homework we collected some leaflets or posters that shows if it is half the price or any 3 for 10 pound.

Bethany W – half price is 50 present off.

Katie D – 2 for 1 pound is a price

Cameron M – 80 present off is a value

Lillie W – buy one get one free