Today we hosted our own coffee morning as part of the biggest fundraising event for people facing cancer. We raised a FANTASTIC £610.80 making this year another successful year!
Primary 4/5 had a wonderful time joining the event with our class singing. THANK YOU to everyone who came to see us and for donating.
Today, children were given a poly pocket to take home containing the homework discussed at the open afternoon/ evening.
They had a chance to choose a book for enjoyment from the class library. This may be returned/ swapped via the class teacher’s sign in/out record.
Reminder: This book should stay inside the poly pocket to protect from damages/ spillages.
They have also been given a reading challenge grid and their Sumdog login. Other homework for e. g. Topic/ Spelling/ Halloween etc. will be given out at various times or where appropriate to support in class learning.
Thank you for your support.
Today Primary 4/5 have enjoyed a day of ‘phizz-whizzing’ activities for Roald Dahl Day. We looked at the characters in a variety of books where they typically involve adult villains, who hate and mistreat children, and feature at least one “good” adult. Our favorites so far are George’s Marvellous Medicine, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Every year on September 13th we celebrate his birthday as he is one of the most famous children’s authors.
Did you know:
Roald Dahl loved sweet treats – but not chocolate cake nor hot chocolate so we made Wonka treats using the whipple-scrumptious fudgemallow delight recipe. They were… scrumdiddlyumptious!
Please remember to collect your certificate tomorrow for taking part boys and girls!
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Primary 4/5 have been working extremely hard on Place value this week by reading, writing and ordering numbers with 3/ 4 and 5 digits.
To make a number we use any of our 10 digits in our number system (0-9). Each number we made had three or more digits. The number 683, for example, is made of the digits 6, 8 and 3.
The position of a digit in a number is very important. We learned how a digit’s value depends on its position in the number. We used place value headings like Tn Th H T U and discussed what the value of each digit in a number is.
TRY OUT THESE TOP GAMES AT HOME:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/05/m3_05_00_x.swf
http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
Reminder: You may log onto ActiveLearn using the first 4 letters of your first then second name with your password set as woodlandsp45. You have assigned Place Value tasks you can complete at home if you wish.
Today we completed our first ‘Big Writing’ lesson with a focus on the Narrative genre. With our opening paragraph completed, we followed our success criteria to write the next paragraph of ‘My Alien Teacher.’ Some boys and girls got to share their adventure and we discussed the vivid vocabulary, clever connectives, exciting openers and perfect punctuation that we included in our writing. Well done everyone! Check back on Monday for our three ‘STAR WRITERS’
This week, we have improved our basketball skills and techniques by focusing on: dribbling to travel with the ball, hand-eye co-ordination, control of the ball and passing to a partner with an accurate bounce and chest pass.
Check out our photos!
Primary 4/5 enjoyed the demonstration of honey extraction from the bees. We joined Mr McMullan and were fascinated with the centrifugal force used to spin the honey.
Today we learned to:
