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Garden maintenance and our class rock animals

Having recently spent time with the team who installed our new sensory garden, P4/5 noticed that the garden was not looking as good as it was when it as first completed.

Several of the pupils asked Mr Kerr about what we could do to make the garden flourish again and we decided to have a tidy up and de-weeding afternoon.

We got out all of our garden tools and learnt about how to use tools such as trowels, forks, spades and garden hoes.

We also learnt about different weeds such as dandelions, stinging nettles and a weed called Jacobs coat, that was really colourful but grows way too quickly for our gardens. We split up into teams and worked to clear and smarten up all four areas of our garden.

We managed to dig and collect THREE whole bin bags of weeds and rubbish.

As part of our ‘Creating our own zoo’ project, we had painted animal pet rocks featuring a variety of animals you would find at the zoo.

Our creations can now be found in our Sensory garden. Pop over and have a look if you are in our playground.

Here are some of our animals in their new habitat.

 

P4-7 Renfrewshire PAThS Assembly

P4/5 and P6/7 took part in a Renfrewshire wide PAThS assembly with many other schools across the authority to talk about our feelings about returning to school.

We spoke as a class and shared our feelings/worries not only with our classmates but with other children across many other schools.  This allowed us to find out that our emotions are shared by many other people and it was good to find out that other people feel the same and have the same worries as us.

We also spoke about the power of teamwork and how by sharing our feelings and emotions we can be stronger as a team.

P4/5 Book Week Scotland

Today, Primary 4/5 were learning about all different types of books: Fiction, non-fiction and Comics.

We started this morning by having a ‘blether’ with our groups at our blether stations.

We were discussing our different opinions and discussing what we like and don’t like about some fiction stories.

Have a listen to one of our groups during their discussions, they become very involved.

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After break, we moved on to looking at examples of comics strips and discussing how they were very short stories told in pictures, but with added detail in the speech from characters.

We looked at examples from Wallace and Gromit and Peanuts.

As a class, we decided to create our own. See some of our examples below.

This afternoon, we merged our weather topic and our reading day to talk about non-fiction books. Mr Kerr showed the class a non-fiction book about the water cycle and how its rains, just like it had been all day today. We learned about all the meteorological terms for the different stages.

 

Mr Kerr then along with the class created an experiment showing how water evaporates and condenses of a cold surface. You can see our experiment below.

Can you see the condensation that formed? It became heavy on the cold plastic lid and formed a rain drop.

 

We reinforced our learning here by labelling all the different features of the Water Cycle.

 

By the end of the day, the entire class agreed… books are amazing in so many ways!

To the new Primary 4/5 pupils!

Good Morning Primary 4/5!

Welcome to your first blog as P4/5 pupils, I hope you are looking forward to next year as much as Mr Kerr is.

Today I have made a little video for you. You can find this video in two places:

  1. On your new Seesaw class, or
  2.  The school Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/StDavidsPS/

I am really am excited for next year, we are going to have lots of fun.

In the mean time, stay safe and take care.

Happy Summer Holidays!!!

Mr Kerr