Primary 5 have had such a busy day today making the final few adjustments to our school nativity to make sure that everything is just right!   We are so excited to put on a great performance tomorrow!

This week we do not have any official homework, and homework jotters will be kept in school until the new year.  Children have been supplied with Christmas-themed worksheets and colouring pages that they may complete.  Sumdog and Active Learn will be available over the holidays, as normal.

Just a last few important dates to share with you all:

Monday 18th December – P5 Christmas Party 1pm – 3pm

Children can either come in with party clothes on, or change after their lunch. The children can contribute by bringing along one of the following to share with their class; 1 X 2 litre bottle of juice, 1 X large bag of sweets or funsize, 1 X large bag or multi-pack of crisps or 1 packet of bought cakes. Thank you. 🙂

Friday 22nd December – Early finish of 2.30pm

Monday 8th January – Back to School.

Congratulations to Eva who won the school raffle for children who handed in their homework on time. Hopefully another Primary 5 will win this week!

This weeks words are:

Authors and Illustrators

1. quiet
2. quick
3. quite
4. squid
5. equal
6. require
7. liquid
8. equator
9. earthquake
10. equipment

Publishers

1. quit
2. quiz
3. queen
4. quiet
5. quilt
6. quick
7. squid
8. equal
9. square
10. squeeze

Please copy out your words three times into your jotter.  Then, write out a definition for at least 4 of your words.

Maths

Please complete your times table worksheet.  If you have been finding halving and doubling tricky it would be a good idea to also practise your 2x table in your homework jotter.

Well done to those of you who are logging in to Active Maths and Sumdog every week, one of you answered almost 1000 questions last week which is absolutely spectacular! As always, you can log on to either of these sites whenever you have a spare 15 minutes.

Topic

For your topic work please research Bonnie Prince Charlie and make a note of any interesting facts which you find (aim for 4 facts).

Miss Donaldson

Please could all Primary 5’s hand in their shepherd (boys) and angels (girls) costumes as soon as possible,  in a plastic bag marked with your name.

Shepherd costume requires:

• black trousers/ jeans
• plain t-shirt of any kind
• tea towel

Angel costume requires:

• leggings/ jeans
• plain white t-shirt

We will provide tinsel etc to complete the costumes on the day. If you have any problems please do not hesitate to get in touch. Thank you 🙂

Today Primary 5 were learning about creating stop-motion animations.  They had to carefully plan, organise and sequence events to solve problems and complete challenges.  They started by using whiteboards and pens then moved on to using characters.

Well done to all those who handed in their homework on time this week, it was really interesting reading about your hopes and dreams for the future – good job!

Literacy

This week, our spelling words are:

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

When copying the words into your jotter, please try and join your writing (and remember your capital letters!).

Secondly, read a newspaper article and write a summary in your jotter describing what it was about. Remember I will not have read the article so think about what you would need to tell me in order for me to understand what the article was about.

The article could either be from a printed newspaper or you could use an online article (a good idea would be to look on the BBC Newsround website).

Maths

Well done on your efforts in our Sumdog competition last week, I was keeping an eye on how you were getting on all week and the number of questions that you answered as a class was fabulous!

This week, we have been working on doubles in class. In your jotters, please write out the following questions and answer them below.

1. 4+4
2. 7+7
3. 10+10
4. 13+13
5. 17+17
6. 19+19

If you know your doubles then it becomes really easy to answer near doubles questions.  Using your answers to the questions above, please answer the following questions:

1. 4+3
2. 6+7
3. 10+11
4. 12+13
5. 18+17
6. 18+19

As always, you are encouraged to use ActiveLearn and Sumdog.

Topic

As you all know, this week we will be designing and creating Jacobite targes (shields) as part of our topic work. Please research at least two Jacobite weapons. In your jotters, draw a picture of the weapon, label the diagram and then write a short description of the weapon underneath your picture.

Miss Donaldson 🙂

Primary 5 worked hard to create a campaign video linked to our Outright campaign; highlighting the problems faced by child refugees.  They want to encourage the UK Government to take action and ensuring refugee children get their rights.

Just a reminder to say that Primary 5 have an additional two weeks of swimming starting tomorrow. Pupils will need to bring their swimming kit and their normal gym kit.  Children are also asked to either order a snack to go from the school cafeteria in the morning, or bring a packed lunch.

Miss Donaldson

Spelling Words

1. balloon
2. clothes
3. earth
4. friends
5. great
6. heard
7. light
8. something
9. sure
10. whole

Please copy out spelling words three times using look, cover, write, check.

Up-Levelling Sentences

Up-level the following sentences, using the VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) strategies we have been learning, to make them more interesting to the reader. You can use adjectives, adverbs, similes, to make the sentence more interesting.

• The monster growled
• The boy jumped.
• The man sang.
• The dog barked.
• The lady swam.

Maths

Our class have entered a North Lanarkshire online maths contest with SUMDOG! This week we will be competing against other classes in North Lanarkshire, who have also entered the competition.

All you have to do is play Sumdog’s games and your scores will count towards our class score.  The final score that will be counted will be our class’ average score.

Enterprise Week

As you all know, this week is enterprise week and we have been making sock snowmen to sell at the Christmas Fayre.  Enterprise week is all about getting us to think of the world of work and life beyond school so I would like you to tell me what your ideal job would be.

Please lay out your jotter in the following way:

My Ideal Job

When I grow up I want to be a…

Explain why you want to do this job when you are older (1/2 sentences)

What do you need in order to achieve your ambition?  Research any qualifications or work experience you need.

Describe the skills you will need to do this job.  For example, to be a teacher you need to be kind, patient, and caring.

Draw a picture of yourself doing your dream job.

Its Christmaaaaaaaas! Today, Primary 5 made sock snowmen as part of our enterprise for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. Don’t they look great! Primary 5 will have the opportunity to purchase their sock snowman on Friday, as I know there are a few children who cannot make the fayre on Saturday  🙂

Well done for those of you who handed your homework in on time – a fantastic 17 of you earned yourselves a raffle ticket this week!

Literacy

Our spelling words this week are:

1. any
2. asked
3. began
4. change
5. does
6. every
7. knew
8. know
9. place
10. until

Task 1: Please could you practise the words by writing them out in three ways; big, really small, and in your best handwriting.

Task 2: Read either a short story or a chapter of a book and write a short summary telling me what happened.

Maths

We have been revising our number bonds in Primary 5.

Task 1: Please complete your number bonds worksheet.

Task 2: In your jotters, please write out a further 6 number bond facts that equal 100. (For example you could write 61+39=100)

Our favourite games in maths last week were:

Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Sumdog: https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

Active Learn: https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

Other

This Friday is Children in Need day, which we will be celebrating in school.  Log onto the BBC Children In Need website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2dkVnZqV0NWTkqdygMWQftJ/scotland) and research one of the charities or organisations which is helped by Children in Need.

Explain:

1. What the project is called and what it does.
2. How the money has helped.
3. Explain why people in Britain should try and raise money for Children in Need.

Miss Donaldson  🙂