We have been very busy this week. We have been looking at perspective and designed our own names so they look 3D.

In health and well-being we have been thinking about what we are thankful for. We created thank-you cards to deliver to some special people around the school.

We have also enjoyed:

-Playing “Fakey” at P.E. which helps us to stop and start quickly.

-Learning to double numbers and looking for patterns to add lots of small numbers together.

-Learning about Beethoven and his life. We found out he was deaf but still managed to compose music. We took notes.

-Writing a description text about Beethoven. We worked as a class.

-Music where we learned the macerena.

-Learning about nouns and adjectives. We had to locate examples in our class novel, “Max and the Millions”.

-Working with lines of symmetry in patterns and 2D shapes.

-Practising our handwriting. Three people have earned a pen license.

-Learning more signs in British sign language.

We have had another busy week.

We have been finding out about Germs.  We have learned that there are four types;  Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi and Protozoa.  We set up two experiments.  One to see what surfaces germs grow and the other to see what food will go mouldy first.

We have been learning about place value; adding and subtracting multiples of 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.

We have been looking at the types of words and phrases used in descriptive writing.  We made up some similes to help create visual images.

• as slow as an old tortoise
• as pretty as Rapunzel
• as big as a whale
• as small as a mouse
• as green as Shrek
• He jumped like a cat.
• as long as Pinocchio’s nose
• as cunning as a fox

What questions do you have about your learning?

How could you demonstrate your learning?

Primary 6 have had a very busy week in school.  We have been thinking about our individual strengths that we can use when we find things tricky and looked at what skill or strength we have practised recently.

This week we have been working with the sequence of numbers to millions and place value.  Sometimes these numbers are very tricky to read but this is a great video to help with reading large numbers.  We learned about different type of lines;  parallel and perpendicular and explored outside to see these types of  lines in our environment.

For reading we have been looking at different types of questions;  Literal, Inferential and Evaluative.  We answered questions and created our own ones.  We will be continuing to work on this.

This block we are working on Descriptive Text and we looked at the text structure to remind us how to layout our work.  We will use some of the characters and setting from our class novel Holes by Louis Sachar to inspire our writing.

In science we looked at different germs and found out different ways to stop the spread of germs.

We have been focusing on Skipper and the river of life. We created individual boats for our class river. This term we will be focusing on the skills of looking on the bright side when things get tough. We also created our positive mindset display to help us when we face challenges in school.

This week we have also enjoyed:

• Creating dream catchers and thinking about our dreams for the future.
• Designing our boats for the river of life.
• P.E. We were learning to run effectively.
• Maths. We learned to partition large numbers and then add and subtract multiples of 10.
• Creating posters which show different types of germs and how to stop the spread.
• Maths. We learned about the different types of triangles and created a poster to show this.

Today in Assembly Mrs Wilson asked us to think about what we are grateful for ………………………

Mrs Scott is grateful for her loving, kind and  helpful family as well as her kind, helpful and supportive colleagues.

Lucy is grateful for her home.

Maisie is grateful for her dog called Seb who she loves.

Olly is grateful for his family.

Vinny is grateful for his Xbox.

Mea is grateful for all her friends.

Isla and Evan are grateful for their family.

Aidan is grateful for his cat Flo.

Kirsty is grateful for her home.

Adam is grateful all the wonderful animals.

Ben is grateful for his house/home.

Scarlett is grateful for her dog Angel.

Charlie is grateful for his car.

Jack is grateful for his bed where he can rest and relax.

Annabelle is grateful for all the things she has in her bedroom.

Niamh is grateful for Victor her guinea pig.

Flo is grateful for her guinea pigs Patch and Axel.

Lewis is grateful for education, he missed coming to school during lockdown.

Megan is grateful for her dog.

Ruby is grateful for the beautiful place she lives.

Sam is grateful for all the wonderful food.

Anna is grateful for her cat Tonks.

Gabriel is grateful for being a school.

Aimee is grateful for her house.

Chloe is grateful for her dogs Nellie and Portia.

Ben is grateful for aeroplanes.

Millie is grateful for her wonderful house.

Jamie is grateful for clean air.

Evie is grateful for her dog Maizy.

Alex is grateful for his fabulous life.

Gregor is grateful for his family.

We are all (most of us) grateful to be back at school.

Our class novel is Max and the Millions. We have been working on creating different perspectives when we draw. This is a self portrait from the perspective of Luke. (He is one of the millions in our story.)

We have also enjoyed:

-Our first session of P.E. with Mrs Fletcher

-Making leaves to add to our “Tou-can” do it display

-Having fun in our classroom

-Our first music lesson with Mrs Inglis. We learned about rhythm and beat. We also started to learn about the Garage Band App on our i-pads.

-Writing descriptions about characters in our novel.

-We started perspective skyscraper artwork. Lookout for examples next week.

-Watching our first virtual assembly.

-Learning about the properties of 2D shapes and place value in large numbers.

It was fun and we did more creative activities.  Flo

It was good to get back with friends.  Niamh and Olly

It was good to get back into a routine.  Vinny

It was good to see friends and get back to school and feel a bit more normal.  Adam

Anna thought it was good to test out our ipads and check all was working.

We had to learn all the new safety rules.  Ruby

It was good to have a laugh with my friends again.  Annabelle

It was really nice to see all our friends and teachers.  Lucy

This week we enjoyed:

-Playing maths games on place value

-Making our own personalised bunting

-Reading our class novel, “Max and the millions.”

-Watching news round each day

-Meeting our new teacher

-Drawing Toucans in art using a “how to draw” video

-Painting our rainbows for our classroom entrance. We are trying to be rainbows in other people’s clouds.

-Writing stories in our choosing time

-Learning how to use British sign language

-Playing NOGGLE and BOGGLE

We are looking forward to coming back next week!

P5 you have been brilliant!  We are so proud of the way you have adapted to Home Learning and kept in touch with your teachers.  Over the last week most of you have set up your new iPads and have been busy exploring them, ready for exciting times ahead in P6 and we know you’re going to be teaching your new teachers a thing or two!

We hope you all have a lovely summer and look forward to seeing you back in school in August.  Look after yourselves and, as Mrs Wilson would say, take care of your Mums and Dads.

from Mrs Little, Mrs Rand and Mrs Stevenson

Happy Monday Primary 5.  We hope you’ve had a nice weekend.  The Sway for this week and last is still available from the Home Learning Page but we know some of you are always looking for extra things to do.  If you haven’t already done so, why not try one of the new Kingsland Challenges with your family.  They are available on the school website but here are some quick links too:

Challenge 6 – Peebles Town Trail

Challenge 7 – Be a Maths Detective