Macmillan Coffee Morning!

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.

Homework

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.

P4/5 ROALD DAHL DAY!

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:

  • 2018 is the 13th annual Roald Dahl Day
  • Roald Dahl wrote 21 books and has sold approx. 1 million each year
  • Roald Dahl went to school in Llandaff, Cardiff until he was 9 years old and went to boarding school in England
  • His mother and Father were Norwegian and he was named after a famous explorer from Norway
  • Roald was a British novelist, short story writer, poet and a fighter pilot
  • In 1939 he joined the RAF and because he was so tall his fellow pilot mates nicknamed him ‘Lofty’

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.”

Place Value, Big Writing & Basketball

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!

 

Honey Extraction

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:

  • Look for Less than 20% water on the frame
  • Cut the wax off the frame with a dry knife
  • Keep the knife flat and saw back and forth
  • Put 3 wet frames in the extractor
  • Take time and care when you spin round as the honey shoots out the sides – slow spin at the start
  • Half way through turn the frames around
  • Centrifugal force is used to extract honey into the honey bucket