Last week p5 worked creatively to create balancing shapes, on their own or with a partner.

We continued to play as a band ‘Out of this World’. We played bass drums, jembes and Brazilian steel drums. We discovered the instrument ‘cuica’ in the museum of magical mimstruments.

The drummer of the week was Jackson, well done!

We looked at techniques used by artist Nick Rowland, namely chalk and oil pastels on black paper with layers of splashed or drizzled paint on top, and thought that this would make great volcano pictures.

We started by drawing labelled diagrams of a cross section of a volcano then used these ideas to make our pictures.
Can you spot any ash clouds? We also know that these are called ‘pyroclastic clouds’.

We enjoyed the sunny afternoon to flick the paint outside.

This week we continued to learn about money in maths, and how to give change using the shopkeeper’s method. A few shops are being set up in our spare time!

Our guided reading is non fiction texts, and we are learning to identify the purpose, structure and features of information reports in writing.

We had a whole school live assembly with Mrs Strathearn and are looking forward to the follow-up task; sharing who we are with her.

World Book Day on Thursday was great fun, don’t forget to spend your £1 token.

We painted some Spring flowers in art.

Today we enjoyed activities around reading, book characters and favourite books.

We took part in a book character hunt organised by Mrs Smith. Hidden in the corridors were pictures of characters from popular children’s books. We searched high and low and had fun naming them and remembering when we read those books.

We learned about the adults’ favourite children’s books. It was good to see our old teachers and remember the books they read to us.

Our drumming band has a name!

’Out of this world’ was suggested by James and voted for by the class. Everyone gave a suggestion and voted, so now we are a real band!

Today we made our own drumsticks using bamboo. We use them to play games such as ‘Don’t drum this one back’ and ‘Stick ‘em up’.

We also sang a song ‘The Calabash Song’.

Alistair was drummer of the week, well done!

We are learning about money; knowing notes and coins, counting amounts and giving change.

Today each table invented a shop and had fun pricing goods, buying and selling and giving change.

We had two bookshops, a sweetie shop and a second hand tech shop!

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.