Author: Miss Peattie

We are starting to explore time in Maths. Today we done a quiz on time to see what we already know. Here are some facts we already know:

Emma: “There two types of clocks. One is called digital and the other is analogue.”

Anya: ” There are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.”

Cameron: ” There are 48 hours in two days.”

Jack: ” There 60 seconds in a minute.”

Heather: “You use bus timetables when you are getting the bus.”

Rudi: “You have a time you have to be back home at night.”

Cate: ” You use a watch or an alarm clock to get you to work on time.”

Julia: “You need to know the time if there is somewhere you have to be by a certain time.”

Dil: ” You can see the time on your digital watch, tv, phone, oven, buses, microwave and more.”

We have been using our knowledge of instructions to create a map for our partner.

Orla: We had to plan and carry out our instructions before sharing them.

Bethany L: We might need these skills when we’re older to use a map.

Rudi: I used precise words like left, right and said exactly how many steps to take.

Greg: We had to be very detailed with our instructions. I had to tell them to move diagonally.

Fraser: We had to know our left and right to move around.

Caroline: I thought it was good because we learned a lot.

Jack: It was fun because we got to learn new things.

On Friday, Primary 5 hosted Christmas Jumper Day. We introduced our Christmas Jumper Day with an assembly. There was a catwalk jumper competition and a Frozen sing-a-long. We thought that the assembly went well and it was fun to sing with the school.

We each had a stall to participate in. There was a bake sale, a photo booth, Christmas Jumper competition, Guess Snowflakes birthday, arts and crafts and ICT games. They were very fun to work at.

We have been thinking about the skills we needed at each stall and here’s what we have came up with:

Lillie: We had to use our knowledge of money. We looked at how much people gave us and worked out the change.

Fraser: We needed computer skills. We had to set up the computers and find the website. We helped anyone that needed support.

Anya: We had to make sure there were enough cakes for everyone.

Jason: You need to be able to type fast.

Cameron: We had to know how much change to give back.

Katie: You had to give back the correct change.

Orla: We had to put a limit on how many cakes you were allowed.

Gabrielle: At the photo booth you had to use communication skills to talk to the boys and girls.

Today we are starting to explore length in Maths. We created mind maps of everything we know already about length.This is what we remeber from our previous learning:

Behtnay L: You measure roads.

Lillie: You can measure crocodiles.

Jason: You can measure the length of a marathon.

Charlie: You can measure how far the ball goes when you throw it.

Jack: You use it to measure walls.

Cameron: There is a length in a swimming pool.They might tell you to swim 2 lengths of the pool.

Cate: You can measure how long a car is.

Heather: You can measure a football pitch.

We all know that length is a measurement. We noticed that the area of a shape is length x breadth.

Length can be measured with decimals. We done a fist of five and we are confident that we will be able to work with decimals. We have been exploring decimals in class so we don’t think they should be a problem.

Today we have been exploring some non-fiction text. We looked at examples of imperative verbs and . In groups we created a mime for an imperative verb and got the class to guess which one it could be. We used these verbs to create a flow chart on ‘How to Build a Christmas Tree’.

Friday was our class assembly. It went really well. We want to thank everyone that came to watch our assembly. We really enjoyed it and we hope you did too. We are very sad that we have now finished our topic but we had learned a lot of new facts and skills.

we have learned about French artists and their lives and we learned French songs. We know about different landmarks and can speak French.

we had French food for our guests and later on we got to try some ourselves. We tried some chocolate crepes, brioche and Madeira cake.

Here are our thoughts on our topic and things that we have learned that stick in our minds:

Rudi: I learned how to say different things in French.

Cate: we found out about different French artists.

Fraser: we learned that the Eiffel Tower was the tallest man made building for 41 years.

Heather: we found facts about Cannes, Bordeux, Paris and Braincon.

Gregor: I liked finding out information on Paul Cezanne.

Gabrielle: I learned how to say hello, how are you and our age.

Emma: I learned how different school is in France.

Erin: we learned about different events in France.

Jack: we learned French songs for our assembly.

Hi and welcome to p5 s  super  blog  we have been going swimming  every Tuesday  afternoon and we had so much fun and played a lot of games but obviously we were swimming too. We learned a lot of strokes including breast stroke and back stroke.

This week we were learning life saving skills. We all got certificates to show how well we have done. It was also great spending time with our P5 friends in P4/5.

Lewis, Bethany W, Leah and Jason.

Here is an overview of what we have been learning in the past few weeks.

In maths we have been going over our timets tables in our jotters. We have been been focusing on our three timetable in BIg Maths. We have been halving 300, 500, 700 and 900 too. Some of us  noticed that half of 70 is 35 and half of 700 is 350.

In RME we have made a coat of many colours for Joseph.

We have been learning about the story of Joseph and his brothers. We learned a song about this called Any Dream Will Do. This story is about being nice to others and making good decisions.

We are still working on our France topic. We have been learning how to mime. The number one rule for miming is no talking.

We have been miming different situations. This will help us with our assembly.

In science we have been learning about the watercycle. We have made our own watercylce diagrams. We learned that water evaporates into gas. We have noticed this happening at home too.

We have been learning the ‘j’ sound in our spelling. This has helped us spell some words better in our daily writing. We all have our reading books now. We are having an amazing time reading them. We have been using our reading strategies to help us understand the book a bit more.

We have been learning about the rhythm with our Kodaly teacher and also using the ABC music pack. We were using percussion instruments to learn about loud and soft. Some of us got to be the conductor which meant we controlled the sound everyone made with our hands.

We hope you visit our blog again soon!

Primary 5.