As part of our ‘In the News’ topic we worked in groups to create an opening theme tune for our own news shows. After listening to theme songs for various news shows, we decided that our pieces had to have a fast beat, sound serious and build up at the end.
We had lots of fun experimenting with the instruments then performed our finished pieces to the class.
Every Tuesday, Primary 5 have been disappearing to the quietness of Mrs Neilly’s room to do some yoga. We have been practising our sun salutations and helping each other with the postures.
At the beginning and end we lie in Shavassna and enjoy some peaceful relaxation and meditation. We finish by saying ‘Om shanti shanti shanti’ which means peace in body, speech and mind.
We have been exploring the features of newspaper reports this week as we will soon be writing our own!
We had our final visit from Santander on Monday. We learned about different ways to pay for things and how to keep our details safe. The workshops have been really interesting and will be useful in the future! A big thanks to Santander!
After the bad weather on our official World Book Day, we finally got to wear our costumes and take part in the parade.
We had a great day making bookmarks, reading to Primary 1/2, completing character descriptions and drawing selfies of ourselves!
Those of us reading The Twits had fun pretending to be Muggle-Wump the monkey in class today.
We had all written questions in advance and took it in turns to ask and answer them. Every version of Muggle Wump said they did not enjoy life in Mr Twit’s Great Upside Down Circus!
Before the snow fully hit Gartcosh, Primary 5 had some fun with glitter to illustrate what happens in our brains.
We each added different colours of glitter to a bottle of water. The bottle itself represented our skull, the water was the glue and the glitter was neurons and emotions.
When we shook the bottles we could see thousands and thousands of connections being made between the individual pieces of glitter. This showed just how complex our brains are!
We had loads of fun taking part in our sponsored assault course this afternoon!! Even Mrs Simpson had a go!
Many thanks to everyone that has sponsored us!
As part of our Mindfulness sessions, we have learned how to eat mindfully. Mr McCann gave us each an unknown item which we had to hold, smell and finally unwrap the tinfoil from…
Chocolate!!!
We were allowed to place the chocolate in our mouths but not chew, and then allow it to move around our mouths before finally biting into it. We all agreed that taking our time and thinking about the experience lead to an even better taste sensation!
Next time we eat our dinner in a hurry we will think about this and try to slow down!
We had a great time learning how to create beautifully marbled paper! We added special marbling inks to a tray of water, swished it all around and then watched the magic happen when we added the paper.
