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.
Due to a few technical difficulties, the P5 blog has been a little quiet lately…..
We are now back up and running and look forward to sharing what we have been doing!
Mrs Simpson.
Thanks for all of your hard work in terms 1 and 2, Primary 5. It has been a pleasure being your teacher for these past few months – I will miss you all. Keep up the good work for Mrs Simpson!
Have a lovely Christmas,
Miss Taylor x
As part of our new science topic, we have been learning about the water cycle.Â
After learning about the process, we completed some explanation writing and completed a diagram, labelling the correct parts in the cycle. We then did an experiment to create our own rain and visually see exactly how the water cycle woks on a small scale.
*Parent Prompt* Ask your child what these words mean within the water cycle process: precipitation, evaporation, condensation, accumulation!
Today, Primary 5 visited Summerlee Heritage Museum. It was a great trip and we learned lots.
As part of our Scottish Inventors topic we have been learning about different inventions and how they have impacted on people’s lives today. It was very interesting seeing some of these inventions, such as the television, phone and radio, in Miners row. This was a row of living rooms set up to show how living conditions changed through the decades. Things have changed a lot!
Inside the museum we were able to look at some amazing historical models of some machinery which was used in different industries in the past.
The weather stayed dry, for the most part, and we were able to have fun at the museums play park as well as have a look at ‘The Vulcan’, a replica of the first iron-hulled boat. We were surprised to find out that one of the Scottish Inventors that we have been studying, James Watt, was involved in the management in creating the canal for ‘The Vulcan’.
Our final part of the day was a workshop delivered by the Education team at Summerlee.
In science we have been looking at the Water Cycle and to further our learning the workshop looked at floating and sinking. We will be covering this further in class but it was fascinating to learn about how heavy boats stay afloat.
Have a look at some of our snaps from a great day!
A special thanks to the parent helpers- Mrs Taylor and Mrs McKinstry, we couldn’t have done it without you!
