P5

We have been learning about France. We have done lots of research to find out about different things in France.  We used atlases to find France and the countries round about it.  We researched famous landmarks in Paris and we made a great wall display! Next we looked at the schools and how they were the same or different from schools in Scotland. Yesterday we did a comparative study of France and Scotland.  This means we were comparing the two countries.  We looked at things like the population, the currency, the national flower and more!  France has a much higher population than Scotland!

 

 

 

Yesterday in P.E we used Cyber Coach. This is an online exercise programme. There are loads of different types of exercise including ballet and aerobics but we did the combat with Drew. We watched and copied the big screen with the lights down and the music up loud. It was really good fun!

We have been doing lots of work on place value.  We are working with thousands, hundreds, tens and units. It’s quite tricky but we are getting the hang of it!

 

We played a game today where we were in two teams and had to use 4 digits to make the biggest number we could as quickly as we could. It was great fun.

 

Next we played games with the dice.  The first game we rolled the dice to make 4 digit numbers and had to order the numbers.  The second game we made as many numbers as we could with the same 4 digits.  Look at some pictures of our maths today!

 

Welcome to the Primary 5 blog!!

We are looking forward to lots of things in P5.  We are really looking forward to swimming later in the year.  We are also wondering if and where we might go on class trips.  Our teachers tell us we have some great topics, so far we have started France and are looking forward to learning more!

We have been setting up our classroom and have come up with a class charter to help us keep our room a happy, fun, learning environment!

Today we have been learning about Salah.  Salah is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and it is about prayer.  we looked at the powerpoint about the Five Pillars of Islam and we found out that it is about prayer and that Muslims have to wash parts of their body before they pray.  There are certain times to pray and Muslims pray 5 times a day. Muslims must face Mecca when they pray.

 

Then we were set a task to find out more information such as…

Which direction is Mecca from Chryston?

Why Muslims wash before they pray and which parts of the body are washed?

What times during the day do Muslims pray?

 

Here are our answers…

Mecca is south east from Chryston.  In our classroom that means we would have to face the back left corner of the room.

Muslims wash before praying because they should be clean before presenting themselves to their god.  They wash hands, feet and face.

Muslims pray before sunrise, when the sun is at its highest, in the afternoon, at sunset and in between sunset and midnight.

 

We used our internet searching skills to find out this information.  The hardest part was probably working out the direction of Mecca.

Today we have found out about Shahadah.  This is what we know now…

Shahadah is the first pillar of Islam.  Some people think it is the most important one.  It is something that muslims sing or say during prayers.  It is saying for muslims that there is only one god called Allah and his messenger is Mohammad.

Lewis – It is a symbol of faith for Muslims.

Matthew – It is a symbol of belief for Muslims.

Today we are starting a short block of learning about the Five Pillars of Islam.

 

Using our prior knowledge, here is what we think this will be about…

The word pillars is a word we already know.  A pillar is a big tall cylinder shape that holds things up.  Buildings can be held up by pillars.  We think that this means there are 5 things that muslims must do.  Like our golden rules in the playground.

 

This will be about the Islamic religion.  Muslims are people who believe in Islam.  Muslims’ worship in a Mosque.

 

We will tell you more about this as we learn.

This afternoon we looked at Rescue Vehicles as this is our new topic moving on from Renewable Energy.

Our task was to get into pairs and write down all the different types of organisations that use rescue vehicles, what the types of vehicles are and what they are used for.  Then we went onto the iPads to research to see if we had thought of all the rescue vehicles and to add any others we hadn’t thought of.

Here are some of our ideas from today…

Types of vehicles

helicopters

ambulances

fire engines

police cars

pick up trucks

boats

bikes

quad bikes

motor bikes

vans

Types of people who use them

police

doctors

SSPCA

Firefighters

Paramedics

Coastguards

Mountain Rescue

Lifeguards

Forest Rangers

 

Check back soon to see what we have learned about rescue vehicles.

Today we were practising our skills in searching online databases.

A database is something that stores information, often more than one type.

To help us to practise this we used the Argos website.  This was a good website because there are reviews, lots of options to search and lots of different ranges of items to buy.

Here are some of the things we looked for…

Kettle, white, less than £20

Hairdryer, black less than £15

Lego head

Vacuum – more than £200

Smart Television , More than £600

Football, more than £13

Gold necklace – most expensive

Laptop – between £400 and £500

The most expensive “Force Awakens” toy

 

We searched by relevance, by price in ascending and descending and we also searched for items in a certain price range.  We could refine our searches by using different terms.

 

We had a competition to find out if the teacher could find things in the catalogue faster than we could find it using the online database.  We found that the online database was much faster.  The teacher only beat us once but we think that was just good luck.

Today we are making wind farms on brushes (i pad) and we had fun making them.  We made them on land not water.  People did a sunset and some did during the day…   they are really good and some had some at front and some in background we made them as detailed as we can.  I found out how to layer things and how to make my own type of brush to give different effects.

Everyone found this task fun.

Keavie – I learned how to layer things.

Bethany – I learned if you zoom things in you can do more detail

Matthew – I learned that you can change the size of the paper.

 

written by Josh