{"id":24,"date":"2026-01-26T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/?p=24"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:03:11","slug":"january-april-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/2026\/01\/26\/january-april-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"January – April Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Literacy \u2013 reading – Picture Perfect<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lily: I liked learning about Picture Perfect because we got to make our own picture frames and decorate them with our parents and it was really fun.<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn: I thought the book was quite interesting and I\u2019d never read anything about a family like this.<\/p>\n

Arwyn: I liked reading the book because it showed us you don\u2019t always need to be perfect.<\/p>\n

Morris: I liked doing Picture Perfect because the illustrations helped us to picture it and to know what its about.<\/p>\n

Leo: I liked how in the book we learned that not every family is perfect.<\/p>\n

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Primary 5 are moving onto reading Fantastic Mr Fox and have begun exploring the novel through reading comprehension, drama and metalinguistics.<\/p>\n

Writing \u2013 descriptive<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morris: I liked doing descriptive writing because you got to use more adjectives and we got to write about different things not just one big story about one thing.<\/p>\n

Caled: I really liked doing descriptive writing on the laptops because I think it was really fun and instead of having Ms Ali help us, the laptop helped us with spelling mistakes.<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn: I quite liked learning about the Greek gods and it was quite fun.<\/p>\n

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Writing \u2013 instructional\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Halle: I like doing the den-building instructions because everyone\u2019s was different and we got to write them on Chromebooks. I\u2019m excited to do more.<\/p>\n

Harley: I like knowing how to set out instructions because it\u2019s a good life-skill if you become a Lego-creator you need to know how to write instructions.<\/p>\n

Morris: I like doing instructional writing because we watched a video about how to build a den, but you could do it using another method if you wanted to.<\/p>\n

Primary 5 are continuing this writing topic in Term 3 and will be learning to write instructions for activities such as How to Plant a Seed.<\/p>\n

Maths \u2013 place value, fractions, decimals, percentages, addition, subtraction, dividing, multiplication<\/p>\n

Shea: I like that we are learning about percentages and decimals because you can use it in future jobs.<\/p>\n

Olivar: I liked doing fractions and addition because its hard and it\u2019s a challenge, especially silver and gold.<\/p>\n

Lucy: I found multiplication really fun because its my favourite and its fun to count up in timestables. I found some tricky so I made up my own songs to learn them and it helped me a lot.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim: I liked multiplication because I really enjoy doing it, I like the challenge of it.<\/p>\n

Elliot: I liked learning more about dividing and other strategies that we can use.<\/p>\n

Sophie: I love the fact that we can learn new strategies and when we were stuck we could use them it makes things a lot easier. I like that we can take the resources to help us if we\u2019re stuck too.<\/p>\n

Topic \u2013 Home and Away (Scotland and Greece)<\/p>\n

Harley: I liked when Orpheas came in to give us Greek food to try and it was so good! I really enjoyed the dancing too\u00a0 – it was cool.<\/p>\n

Florence: I also loved the dancing because it was hard but also really fun.<\/p>\n

Leo: I liked that we got to learn about tartan and make it because everyone\u2019s was different.<\/p>\n

Caled: I liked learning about Greek traditional dress because we got to make our own patterns.<\/p>\n

Max: I liked learning the differences between Greece and Scotland and how our traditions are different.<\/p>\n

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Architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Halle: I am looking forward to learning about how buildings are built and how old they are.<\/p>\n

Lucy: I am really excited to learn Scotland\u2019s main style of buildings because I don\u2019t know much about that.<\/p>\n

Jessie: I am looking forward to the topic because I think it\u2019ll be a really interesting topic to learn about.<\/p>\n

Walter: I am super excited because I will get to know more about Scotland and the buildings.<\/p>\n

Primary 5 will be exploring this topic further this term learning about famous architects that are Scottish or have designed buildings in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Literacy \u2013 reading – Picture Perfect Lily: I liked learning about Picture Perfect because we got to make our own picture frames and decorate them with our parents and it was really fun. Kaitlyn: I thought the book was quite interesting and I\u2019d never read anything about a family like this. Arwyn: I liked reading … Continue reading January – April Blog<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p52526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}