P5 Reading Homework

You have 5 weeks to read your novel at home and complete the following tasks on your iPad or on paper. Look at how many chapters there are and plan your reading time by splitting the book into chunks. Be prepared to send/show your homework to your teacher by Friday.

It was an interesting first week back, as we met our new head teacher, Mrs Strathearn, had a very snowy day and saw all our friends again after the holiday.

Our learning in reading was non fiction texts. We identified the differences between fiction and non fiction texts, and how the features help us to find the information we need.

In writing we are learning about the purpose and features of information reports before we write our own.

Next Thursday is World Book Day so we are making a class book about our favourite books, to share with our partner school in Nepal.

In maths we have been adding and rounding decimals, and will be applying what we know about decimal places in our next topic, money. We have also learned about grams and kilograms and will be weighing food items.

Our topic on the layers of the Earth led us to look at earthquakes. We have found where in the world the fault lines are.

Tuesday was Thinking Day and here are our Brownies and Cubs in their uniforms.

We played games and rhythms and learned about a Brazilian instrument.  Each week we are improving concentration, following instruments and, most of all, playing together as a band.

Congratulations Orla, for being drummer of the week.

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Week 4 of our big drum adventure and our band has learned how to start and stop playing all together at the same time! Mat gives us a count of 4 so we know when to start and stop playing.

A big well done to Rory who was our drummer of the week!

As part of our topic about natural disasters, we have been looking at the different layers of the Earth and how the crust is divided into different tectonic plates.  We used crackers to represent the plates and red icing for the mantle to show how the plates move against each other.

When the plates move apart (divergent) molten rock erupts creating new crust.

When the plates crash together (convergent) new mountains can be formed.

When the plates slide past each other (transform) they create earthquakes.

Welcome to the Kingsland toy shop!  We created a sales page with a variety of toys which were on offer and we used coins and notes up to £20 to buy toys from each other. We were revising how to write amounts of money correctly, how to add up amounts of money and listing coins to pay for items.

Well done to all the children in P5b who wore their uniforms for thinking day.  They looked very smart!

Maths

We have been practising adding decimals, and learning about metres and kilometres.

Writing

We wrote a cinquain poem, with 5 lines and a distinctive shape.

Here are some of our cinquain poems.

Art. For Valentine’s Day we drew geometric shapes inside a heart, by joining carefully placed dots. We painted them in warm, pastel shades.

Drumming

We are enjoying drumming with Mat the Hat and have been set the challenge of coming up with a band name.
The drummer of the week was Ruby, well done!