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P4/5’s Reflective Friday post for November

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Looking back over this last month, we have achieved a lot here in P4/5! After the Hallowe’en celebrations, it was soon Bonfire Night and then Remembrance Day. This gave us some great opportunities to make beautiful artwork – we hope you enjoyed seeing it when the children brought home their pieces. The children have started their Christmas-themed Art; having made reindeer pictures already.

We will continue getting arty during December. There are so many restrictions in place at the moment, Art is something we can all do safely and can be a great way to take our minds off any worries.

The boys and girls have been working hard in Maths. We do Daily Ten mental maths warm-ups, Number Talks where we explore different ways to calculate the answers, and have been focusing on times tables recently, too. We also started looking at measure and the children knew that the safe distance adults are meant to keep is 2 metres, but they were surprised to see how long 2 metres really is! We also made hugs to send to a loved one of their choice. We hope these were well-received. Here are some photos of them being made:

The boys and girls have especially enjoyed reading their reading books this month for Literacy and got a special treat in Book Week Scotland of being able to bring in their own books and read more in class. Some of our fabulous pupils also volunteered to read books for the nursery children and we all made bookmarks to use in our favourite books. What’s your favourite book?

 

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P4/5 Reflective Friday post for October

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Since our reflective day was a Thursday this month, we decided to do things a bit differently. We can use the ICT room on a Thursday, so some of the boys and girls wrote about what they’ve learned over this past month and sent it to the whole class on Teams. Here is what they came up with: (Well done and thank you to all who contributed)

Kamile

this October month i have been learning alot my favrite book this month is the twelth floor kids and poppet this month we done art we done pumkins and sugur skulls we i like doing maths because i like doing sumdog and daily TEN and i have been learning the 4 times table bye

 

Ouday

language reading storys incredebile insects tlweefth floor kids write story i made a story about Karate Kid And Mrs Dasily was pleased with It ICT I made my own sprite charcter in scratchand doing my 4x table on sum dog and sending emails on glow

 

Muneebah

i have been learning my 4 time table i rilly like daily 10 and bingo some times we play bingo after daily 10 and we play scrach it is very very fun we made some suger skulls we do alout of art some times we do maths

 

Leo

hello to everyone this is my october list we learned about our 4x tables and to make sugar skuls and our what is an insect art we learned about poppet and scratch we play sumdog in the I.C.T room we do our sumdog tasks and we log into glow we go into onedrive and mail on mail we can message our friends and our teachers and people in diffrent classes and we learned about alexander graim bell and thomas watt the end

 

Joshua

hi to all of you my list of things in I.C.T sumdog is  not  new to us but scratch is new to us and i lik my 4x tables

 

Sophie Jane

hi guys i really like learning the 4x table because i did not know it before and i know it know im really happy and i love daily 10 i practise the sums now languege i like languege because it helps me how to read we done incredible insects i like it because i learn about animals what i did not know about art i really like art because we done sugar skills and ict because

sumdog because it is really fun i get to do games while doing maths

 

Blaire

hi to all of you my list of things in I.C.T sumdog is not new to us but i was doing my 4x on it with a fun game i like and a new thing scratch i like scratch because it is a platform with a thing its name sprit you can make it say things if you wanted and glow it is an amazing platform you can send a emal on it good bye.

 

Sadia

in this year i have been learning making sugar sculs and pumkins and i have been learng to do scrach you can make your own character you drees them up it is very fun i have been doing sumdog doing my four times table i love it we have been doing bingo and daily tens we have been doing colour spanish and pee in pe we have been playing food and drink and running that is all from my october month bye everyone

 

Benjamin

I DO THE 4 TIMES TABELS OON SUMDOG PROGRAM SPRITES ON SCRATCH

 

Rahim

hello evrye oun we made shoger sculls we made posters for climet change i like to do maths and somdog daly TEN and scratch sprits

 

Arnas

i like sumdog beocause you learn a bit of matths

 

Mikey

I like sumdog and glow

 

Gracie

I like doing sumdog reply if you do to

 

We also had a lovely day on Friday celebrating Hallowe’en. Here is a video of our parade:

 

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P5 January’s Reflective Friday Post

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The hatchery for our trout eggs arrived last Friday and the scientist who brought it was very happy to answer all our questions. We are really excited about Clyde in the Classroom and have already learned so much!

 

In PE, we’ve been doing gymnastics. Check out our mini routines we put together at the end of last week’s lesson. We had been working on forward rolls, handstands and bridges. We all gave each other feedback, too.

 

This week, we started work on some pencil drawings of creatures that can be found in the Clyde. We focused on form, size, pattern and shading, and we got the chance to check out everyone’s work just before lunch. It’s great seeing the different styles and approaches everyone takes. Keep up the hard work!

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Glasgow Science Centre – Clyde in the Classroom Launch

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P5 loved visiting the Science Centre for the Clyde in the Classroom launch day. We arrived nice and early so got to explore the science centre exhibits and test their abilities in a range of skills; picking up useful information along the way.

After that, we went down for our talks from Clyde in the Classroom to help prepare us for looking after 200 new classmates: trout eggs!

We are now buzzing to receive the eggs later this month and will get to start practising looking after the hatchery when it arrives tomorrow. Watch this space for updates.

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P5 update from August and September

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Over the past couple of months, P5 have been learning a lot about the Titanic and have even made a huge wall display of it; each making their own cabins and/or lifeboats. Did you know, there were only 20 lifeboats on the real Titanic but it should have had 64?!

The children also took part in a STEM activity to see if they could make a tinfoil boat that floated and could carry coins. We certainly have some budding engineers in our class!

In Health and Wellbeing, we each created our own Colour Monsters to explore feelings and emotions. They’re on display outside our classroom if you’d like to come and meet them.

In RE we listened to and discussed the story of Father Damien who lived with sufferers of leprosy. He was such a kind and inspirational man; he made a real difference to this outcast community.

As part of our topic The Titanic, the children worked in groups to try to put the inventions/events in order. It should give some parents out there a wee chuckle!

 

The children worked in groups to demonstrate working in canon, mirroring each other and matching.

P5 have been exploring movement: balance, weight through arms, jumping, inversion and rotation.

At the beginning of the year, our P5s worked in groups on 2D Shape.

The first Golden Time in the class saw our pupils working together socially in small groups. We even had a domino rally!

 

Our class were given potatoes FROM OUR GARDEN!! We made 4 kinds of potato wedges from them and they didn’t last long!

We also hosted a MacMillan Coffee Morning and raised £425! Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to everyone who baked, bought or donated – we couldn’t have done it without you.

 

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Summer Term in P4/5

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We have been learning about India this term. These beautiful Rangoli patterns have been inspired by the Hindu tradition for festivals.

We have also done some beautiful artwork as part of our work on Pentecost and Corpus Christi.

Whilst some of our class were preparing for the school show, the rest were doing STEM activities. They worked on Beebots and Spheros, aswell as building bridges and towers. These children did a great job presenting their work to the rest of the class.

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P4/5 March Reflective Friday

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On the 8th of March, we released the brown trout alevins into the Calder. We each had a container of 3 or 4 fish. One of our favourite parts was pouring them into the water. It was really good to get fresh air and a chat with our friends on the way to release the fish. It was great seeing them in the river for the first time. Some of us felt it was a bit sad because we had been looking after them for 6 weeks but it was great to see them searching for – and finding – food for themselves! Some of us felt a bit nervous for them because we noticed a lot of rubbish like glass, plastic, branches, crisp packets, bottle tops, broken bikes and so on in the water.

 

 

We have been learning about plastic pollution after releasing them because we saw all that rubbish. We have watched videos about the harm that is done to fish and other creatures in the sea and we’ve been talking about how to stop using so much plastic. We have been writing persuasive letters to people to convince them to stop using single-use plastic.

Don’t use so much plastic.

Recycle plastic.

Reuse plastic.

Don’t litter.

Don’t waste plastic.

At this month’s Merit Assembly, Sophia and Logan showed everyone their presentation about the Brown Trout.

 

This month, we have also been learning about the church and what being an altar server means. We have prepared questions to ask existing altar servers. Oscar has even just become an altar server! Well done, Oscar!

 

Science Week was this month.

We did lots of experiments including:

Skittles in hot water: the Skittles melted and the water turned different colours.

Bouncy egg: we put one egg in vinegar and waited 24 hours and when we took it out, there was no shell but it was bouncy!

Bending water: we got a static charge on a ruler and put it beside running water from the tap.

Blow-up balloon: We put a balloon over a jar of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and it blew up the balloon!

We even tried some experiments that didn’t quite go to plan! It was great fun. Some of us tried them at home.

 

Some of us made non-fiction books about our interests such as guinea pigs, horses and Fifa.

 

It was also World Book Day.

We came to school in costumes or in our pyjamas and we read books and went round the classes. In our class, we read Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo about World War II and children being evacuated.

 

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Going Bananas for Fairtrade

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We held an event in Fairtrade Fortnight to raise awareness of Fairtrade. The children had great fun decorating Fairtrade bananas, eating Fairtrade bananas and other healthy snacks at our chocolate fountain stall, baking using Fairtrade products such as Fairtrade sugar and also showing their support of Fairtrade by getting their faces painted with the Fairtrade logo.

Here are some photos from the event which raised more than £500 for Mary’s Meals!