Hello everyone and welcome to the first P5 blog of the year. We’ve already crammed in a lot and it’s not even Christmas yet. Let’s see what the class has been up to…
Numeracy
Every week we do times tables sheets. There are lots of different colours – at the moment the hardest sheet is the red one but we are trying to get to the yellow sheet – nobody has got there….. yet! Tables are at the heart of so much of the maths we do in P5 so we’ll keep practising!
We’ve been learning about decimals and how whole numbers can be split up into 10 smaller pieces called tenths. Knowing about this will help with the trickier work to come in P6 and P7.
We’ve recently started division and learned how division is just times tables backwards (see above! :-)). Now we’re doing vertical division, which is also sometimes known as bus-stop division. Once this is complete we’ll be starting on fractions which is a whole topic in itself – busy times ahead!
Literacy
We’ve been improving our handwriting with Mrs White – we use our spelling words and common words to improve and practise our joins which helps us to write with greater speed and fluidity.
We are nearly finished reading Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – it’s been a great book because of the way it mixes funny text with cool cartoons – we also made our own comic strip using Greg and Rowley.
For writing we’ve been doing information reports. Recently we wrote about the jobs we might like to do when we grow up:
Harrison would like to be a YouTuber, Kali is looking to be a vet, Alex is going to be a skateboarder! It will be very interesting to see what everyone actually ends up doing!
STEM
We have been learning about our Solar System. We have discussed present day attempts to go back to the moon, and we have developed our engineering skills by building with the KAPLA blocks.
‘I love how the blocks (KAPLA) challenge me and I love learning about space because it’s so interesting!’ Kali
Sophie D said, ’I enjoyed learning about space and how big the universe is.’
Ethan enjoyed researching a planet because he used the computer.
Lewis found the DART mission to move an asteroid interesting because he didn’t think it would work!
IT
In IT we’ve been logging into Sumdog as well as using Google Jamboard to write about our favourite topics.
We’ve also been using the Chromebooks for music using Google Music Lab and Incredibox.
“I like the music lab because you get to make your own music!” Elise
“I like incredibox because you get to make your own music!” Charley
PE
At the start of term our PE lessons were all based on fitness, we went round stations and did different exercises like… tree pose, mountain climbers, star jumps and hopping on one foot. Some of us were not quite as fit as we thought (including Mr Connor 😀 ).
“I liked doing the fitness because we got to do lots of different exercises” Elise
We’ve just started learning Handball – it’s a bit like basketball but the ball is about the size of a grapefruit. It’s great fun because there’s no physical contact and you can’t run with the ball so everyone gets a chance to have a go.
At the moment Ben says he doesn’t like handball – we’ll have to see if he changes his mind once we start playing proper games.
“I like handball because it’s tricky, fun and takes you to your limits” Kali
MUSIC
We have a teacher that comes in on a Friday to teach us music – we have learned about what the notes are called, about pulse and beat. We also used the musical plastic tubes to beat out rhythms and give Mr Connor a big headache.
H&WB
We had a special visitor in the school who taught us how to do Yoga. Some of the exercises were quite tricky but it was great fun!
Other Info
We had our class assembly just before the holidays.
Jake loved doing Bear Hunt with the P1s and P2s.
Everyone enjoyed recording the ‘cheese touch’ scene – did you see Kali’s amazing stunt in the playground?
Ethan (Dumbledore) nearly tripped on his costume because it was so long! But he made it on the stage OK and did a great job 🙂
We were all so impressed with what the boys and girls achieved – they absolutely excelled! If you haven’t seen the assembly yet, here’s the link:
Class Admin
Now that the weather is turning more inclement can you please ensure your child has a change of shoes. This helps to keep the school clean and also stops your child from having to wear soggy shoes during class time.
