I cannot believe that it is the end of the term already.  Thank you all so much for your on-going support throughout the term.

Maths – Weighing 

This week in maths the green group have been doing some measuring using different types of scales.

Orchestra

The Shetland Youth Orchestra visited the school and amazed us all with their spooky tunes.

French 

We have been learning about the items in our pencil case in French.  The children have been practicing “Dans ma trousse j’ai …..” I am really impressed with how well they are all managing to construct a simple sentence.

HWB – How to Fill your Joyful Cup

As we have reached the end of term the kids have, understandably, been a little more fractious than usual.  We did a lesson all about our positive feelings cup and our negative feeling cup.  After that the kids made their own positive feeling cup filled with things that would make them feel happy if they were experiencing some more negative feelings.

Big Question – Science Fair

This week our big question was about planning and conducting a fair test.  The learners were split into groups and asked to plan a science experiment. They created a poster to show how they planned and carried out the experiment.  On Wednesday afternoon we held a science fair and P1/2 came to see what P4/5 had been doing.  It was great both to see the learners show and explain their experiments and to see the wonder in the faces of the P1/2 class.  Thank you Miss Hunter, Louise and P1/2 for coming to visit.

Maths Game – Suitable for Home Learning

Each day we start our maths lesson by doing a ‘Flashback Focus’ activity, this is an activity that revisits the learning from the previous week.  By repeatedly revisiting the learning we strengthen the neuro-pathways an encourage better recall of concepts and facts.  This week we were revisiting counting forwards and back in 10s and 100s.  The learners worked in groups.  Each group had a piece of paper with a number written on it and two dice, each learner had a different colour of pen.  The first person started writing the next numbers in the sequence while the others rolled the dice, whenever a double was rolled the piece of paper moved around the group.  At the end of the allocated time (in our case 7 mins) the learners counted up how many correct numbers they had added to the sequence. The winner was whoever had the most. It certainly brought out the competitive spirit of some learners! This is an ideal activity to use at home, with multiple children of different ages separate piece of paper could be used to work on different types of number sequences (for example 546, count on in 10s for a P4/5 pupil and 23 count on in 1s for a P2 pupil).

Discover the World 

This week it was National Rollercoaster Day and so the learners were set the challenge of building their own rollercoaster.  I have been so impressed not only by the designs but also but the resilience, problem solving and team work I have seen from the learners.

Maths

We have been counting in maths this week.  To practice counting in 3s the learners played ping pong, tossing the ball back and forth as they worked out the next number in the sequence.

Writing/ Big Question

The big question this week have been about states of matter; solids, liquids and gases.  As part of writing time the learners wrote sentences about each of the different states and created their own posters.  I was delighted by the level of effort and engagement in this task, everyone really strived to produce their best work.

Hello!

Welcome to our P4-5 Class Blog.  It has been a great, and very busy, first week.  I have been so impressed by how well the children have settled into the class and the routines.  I have seen so much determination, consideration and joy already.  I can’t wait to see that all developing over the course of the year.

Chemical Reaction Experiment

Writing with Flexible Seating