Primary 5 were writing letters in Block 3.  One letter was to be written to our favourite author.  Today there was a flurry of great excitement as three letters arrived in school.  One from J K Rowling to William with two excellent stamps on the envelope.  The other  letters were from Laura James the author of the Pug books answering Tara and Freya’s questions.

The children read out their letters and the whole class loved hearing from these authors.

Let’s hope that we have more replies.  Primary 5 are waiting with anticipation.

Andrew was the lucky winner of the Golden Ticket in Primary 5.  It was found in a Jacqueline Wilson book – Double Act.   Andrew was very happy and surprised when he opened the book today.  Andrew will meet with all the other winners tomorrow at the Book Fair for a VIP tour and will get to choose a book.

Next Door Numbers: Use numbers 0 to 9 Numbers that are next door to each other (consecutive numbers) can’t be next door to each other; along, up or diagonally!  Have FUN!

This week we have been learning about the ou sound. We have been taking part in a number of teacher-led activities including dictation, magnetic board work and ‘Read, write and draw’ activities. The children have also enjoyed exploring the play activities below:

Match the words to the pictures

Sort the round shapes

Put the ou words in the mouth

Make a kangaroo with a pouch

Suggested ou words to make, say, write or draw:

out, ouch, sour, loud, pout, shout, couch, about, proud, cloud, ground.

In science we have looked at different body systems. Choose one of the following body systems, and research about their parts and what each part does. Include any interesting facts that you find too.

• Digestive (P6A)
• Skeletal (P6B)
• Nervous
• Respiratory

You can present this information in any form e.g. a fact sheet, PowerPoint, labelled diagrams, a labelled 3D model, an animation etc…

Please bring this in for Monday the 25^th of March when we will have a sharing time with both classes.

Today Hamish’s mum who is a physiotherapist visited us to tell us all about our bones and muscles. She brought in lots of bones and we had to guess which part of the body they were from. We also found out how to keep our bones healthy.

Thank you Mrs Ackerman we really enjoyed your talk

Make sure you write about what you did but also the skills you used or the knowledge you developed.

We had a great World Book Day today. We shared our favourite books with each other and also the homework that we did based around this book. In the afternoon we decorated our door as Granny by Anthony Horowitz , this is the book that we are reading at the moment and we are loving it!!

Well done everyone- lovely to see your enthusiasm.

Today was World Book Day so we have taken part in lots of reading inspired activities: we have had lots of time to read our own books in class, and have read some of our class novel all together. We have used our Information Handling skills to show which of our class novels have been the most popular so far. On the World Book Day website there are some book quizzes, so we had a go at both the KS1 and KS2 quizzes (they’re tricky!). Finally, we thought about what our favourite books are, what happens in them, why we enjoy them and who we would recommend them to and put this all on a poster to try and persuade people to read our favourite books!

Primary 5 had an excellent day today learning how to control and master their bikes in a safe space.  Thanks to Keith and his team we all learned something new and many of us made great improvement.