Hope you enjoy them…

Jay’s Dino Facts…Tyrannosaurus rex

All facts from this section are accurate as of 2016.

1. Contrary to popular belief the Tyrannosaurus rex actually had feathers, we know this as many of its relatives were feathered.
2. The tyrannosaurus rex lived about 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period.
3. Unlike what Jurassic park lead us to believe the tyrannosaurus rex actually had pretty good vision so if you ever see one don’t stand still…it will still eat you!
4. The word Tyrannosaurus actually stands for tyrant lizard while the word Rex means king in Latin.
5. Along with Stegosaurus and Iguanodon Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the 3 dinosaurs that inspired Godzilla’s design.

Freya’s Pirate Party

This week my blog is about Blackbeard
1. He was born as Edward tech💋
2.He spent some time sailing on privateers 💋
3 He was born in England in 1680💋

Jamie’s Football Facts

1.His full name is Cristiano Ronaldo.
2.Ronaldo best friend is Marseol.
3.🚀 He was the fastest player in his team but Bale is more fast.
4. He has a tattoo on his arm it’s a star.
5. He is the best player at taking free kicks.

Paige’s Awesome Blog

Greig’s Amazing Info

Greig’s smashing facts about lamborghini’s

1st. Girls find them attractive and boys well it’s there dream car.

2nd. Lamborghini’s are one of the fastest car in the world the fastest would be the bughati 

Veyron.

3rd. Most kids dream car would be either a Lamborghini or the bughati veyron.

4th. Most Lamborghini cars had a v12 engine except the gallardo which has a v10 engine.

5th. The owner of the Lamborghini drove a ferrari before making the Lamborghini.

Hope you enjoyed the five facts about Lamborghini’s bye see you next week.

Dyllan’s Car Mayhem

This week my blog is about the jaguar xk120

1.the c-tipe was the successful racing version of the xk120 

2.1950 an xk120 wins the tourist trophy race

3.1954 production ends after 12,000 cars are bult.

P5a

A great week!

What a busy week we’ve had as we all settled back into our normal routines.

This week we’ve been learning about possessives…….tricky! We are all confident using the apostrophe to show when something belongs to someone but it’s a little trickier when we are looking at collective nouns however this time next week we’ll be more confident with this as well.

We have used Queen Victoria as a focus for writing a biography. We have all impressed Mrs D very much with the standard of work we have produced as we are more aware of transferring skills into different contexts. We wrote in chronological order and used the notes we had taken about Queen Victoria’s life to make sure we had included only factual information. This also allowed us to discuss the difference between fact and opinion and we will be learning more about this as the term goes on.

In maths we have been revising what we already know about telling the time. We have discussed the different skills that we already have that will help us to build on what we already know. The majority of the class said they did not feel confident in this are however by the end of our first lesson those same people said they already felt better about developing their skills in this area. We have been revising – o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. We know that the minutes in an hour can be counted in individual minutes or in 5, 10, 15, 20 etc. Mrs D is very impressed with the work we have been doing using the four operations especially decomposition and addition with carrying.

I would just like to say I am delighted to be back. Have a great weekend folks!

This week we had the first ever meeting of the Pod Squad. We meet every afternoon in the Pod. We are Jay, Greig, Paige, Freya, Jamie, Dyllan, Mrs Mallin and Mr Berginis.

This week we have focused on decorating the Pod (look at our cool Pod sign above) and getting to know each other.

Paige: “The Pod is the best place to be because you get more help and support and it helps you learn more stuff.”

Greig: “It helps with your learning because there’s not as many people to distract you.”

Freya: “The Pod is better for learning because there is less distraction and I can concentrate more.”

Jay: “It helps me to learn because there are no distractions and it is more fun.” 

Mrs Mallin: “This week has been good fun getting to know the rest of the Pod Squad.”

Mr Berginis: “I have really enjoyed this week because we have started learning about how to work together as a team and we have had some successes already.”

Jamie and Dyllan are absent today but we look forward to them sharing their thoughts in next weeks blog post.

We also worked together to create our Pod Charter. This will help us identify the actions we need to do to make sure we all get our rights. Here it is below.

This term we have been developing our imaginative writing skills and writing fantastic stories – Alien Adventures in Scotland. We have focused on our use of interesting vocabulary, worked hard to vary our sentence openers and have learned how to use direct speech effectively.

This week 9 of our wonderful adventures were converted into animations using the Animate It app. We worked in our animation crews to recreate the stories using words, pictures and props.

We look forward to Monday’s Cinema Experience when we will all sit down to enjoy our hard work. Bet there won’t be a dry eye in the classroom as we watch our aliens soar off to their home planets!

Congratulations to Murray for being November’s MVP and well done to Lauryn who was our Pupil of the Week.

Article 29

Education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.

This week we have shown Mrs D that we can remember what we have been learning! We had a big strip of paper on our desks and we were given time to record some of the skills we have picked up along the way in P5 so far. Here are some pictures …..

We will continue over the next two terms to develop our ability to demonstrate the skills we have learned and record them in this way.

Have a great weekend!

What a busy week we have had………………………………

I enjoyed reading The Twits, the class novel. Archie

I enjoyed maths because we were taking away tens and ones, it was fun. Callum & Paige

I enjoyed learning about the Jewish festival the Passover. Kamron.

I enjoyed the Home Learning 5 minute mental maths frenzy! Steven

I learned how to use co-ordinates by playing a Treasure Hunt game with Archie and I won! Noah

I learned that the Jews used to put lamb’s blood above their door to keep away danger. Harry

I learned my 3 times tables in maths. Tobin

I enjoyed making glaciers using marshmallows, chocolate sauce and porridge! Gary, Mark, Aiden, Jack & Lewis

I enjoyed going to Mrs Drummond’s class to practice the Christmas songs. Lauryn & Emma

I enjoyed learning about Didbook. Fiona

I enjoyed learning about co-ordinates and playing the Treasure Hunt game with Dasha. Michelle

I enjoyed the chocolate geology because we were allowed to eat the marshmallows and chocolate sauce! Jordan & Stacey

I enjoyed the co-ordinates game becuase it helped me improve. Gabriel

I enjoyed doing maths because I learned my 3 times tables. Dasha

I enjoyed maths because in my Maths Journal I made a maze and I had to collect gems of different colours and count them. Casey

I enjoyed playing Exhaustion in PE because it was all about stamina and see who could win! Murray….. and guess who won?!

I enjoyed writing Part 2 of our Alien Adventure! Skye, Katie & Robyn

I enjoyed reading The Twits because I thought it was funny when the monkeys and birds stuck all the furniture on the ceiling. Luca

I enjoyed learning the Tongue Twister. Cameron….give it a go……

If two witches were watching two watches

Which witch would watch witch watch.

I enjoyed reading because I’m improving! Colin

I enjoyed reading The Twits because I thought it was funny when the monkeys and birds stuck all the furniture on the ceiling. Luca

Have a great weekend!

Pupil of the week – Caitlin

Table of the week – Buzzers

This week we have been concentrating on verbs and adverbs. Lots of us have found adverbs very tricky! We did a fun activity where we had to all write a verb on the board and then we had to go around the class and each person had to choose a verb from the board and give an adverb to go with it. We all found this really useful and everyone now feels more confident.

We are planning a three stage imaginative story about an alien who visits Scotland. When we write up our story we will apply what we have learned about verbs and adverbs, nouns and adjectives. We will also use rely on what we have been learning about the Scottish landscape and climate to make our story more detailed and interesting.

In maths we have been learning about vertical multiplication. We have discussed what we have already learned about addition and subtraction that might help us with vertical multiplying. We revisited these concepts before starting the multiplication and it helped lots us to make connections about carrying and decomposition. This links with the work we are doing on metacognition and intelligence.

Chocolate geology!!!

We used an egg to show what the inside of the earth is like. The egg was hard boiled then cut in half. The yolk represented the core, the white represented the mantle and the egg shell represented the earth’s crust.

We cut into a crunchie and the inside reminded us of igneous rocks then we cut a slice from a caramel wafer and that represented sedimentary rocks with all its layers. Finally we placed a curly wurly into a sandwich bag and sat on it. After about quarter of an hour the heat and pressure from our bodies had changed the shape of the curly wurly and this represented metamorphic rocks which are rocks that are changed by heat and pressure. Here are some pictures –

Have a great weekend!

This week in P5B we have enjoyed learning about lots of different things….

I enjoyed listening to the P3/4 assembly.  Colin & Jordan

I enjoyed doing the maths maze and practising the 3 times tables. Gary

I enjoyed art because we learned how to draw like Quentin Blake.  Katya

I liked art because I enjoyed drawing.  Mark

I enjoyed chocolate geology because we made mountains from Oreos. Cameron & Paige

I enjoyed doing the 3 times tables because I didn’t know them before but I have started to know it.  Harry

I learned to paint with water colours.  Stacey

I liked it when Mrs Davidson came in and learned how to draw using a shape. Aiden

HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND.

Pupil of the week – Lennox

Mr Jeffries MVP – Jack

Literacy

This week we have been building on what we already know about using speech marks. We were able to punctuate a passage that had the speech marks missing and we are going to apply what we know in our writing next week. We have also been playing a fun game that helps us to quickly recall whether a given word is an adjective, noun, verb or adverb.

Maths

We had good fun learning about multiplying by 10,100 and 1000. We also had a brief introduction to the decimal point and we will be learning much more about through the context of money later on in the year. We finished our work with angles and directions by going out into the playground with a compass and exploring how to use it.

LATC

We have been exploring the landscape of Scotland this week. We know about the weather in different parts of our country and the features of the landscape in different parts of Scotland. We have been learning to use the key on a map to identify the different features.

RME

We have been learning about Christmas traditions. We understand that both religious and non-religious people celebrate Christmas. We learned about Advent and know how Advent is celebrated religiously and non-religiously, the latter being with fun advent calendars that are full of chocolate!

Have a great weekend!

Blog 6/11/15

LATC

This week we have been learning about our place in the world. We have been learning about the countries that make up Great Britain and the major cities that belong to England and Scotland. We now understand that Blackpool, Manchester and Newcastle are not in Scotland!

MATHS

In maths this week we have been learning about positional language, angles and directions. We know that 90 degrees is a quarter turn, 180 degrees is a half turn and 360 degrees is a full turn. We have been learning to turn clockwise and anti-clockwise in degrees. We have had great fun learning about the positions of a compass including the tricky NE, NW, SE and SW points.

Writing

We have been writing a spooky story this week. We have to use descriptive words and phrases and try to build suspense. Rowan wrote a particularly good story which showed she understands how to build suspense.

Here’s an excerpt –       ‘……..she tried to break free but it was too late, it already had put metal chains on her. Suzie’s throat was sore from screaming. The beast dragged her into a cave……..’    We are all excited to hear the full story when it is finished.

We also wrote poems about our favourite place in Scotland here’s an example –

Linlithgow

Eating delicious food in the car

Watching the lovely loch

Climbing steep hills

Feeding cute ducks

A place where I feel happy and calm

Linlithgow will always be my wee piece of Scotland

By Eva

P.E.

On Tuesday we went to the handball festival at the sports centre. It was a great morning and we all had a fabulous time. Lots of us were able to identify the skills that we learned with Mr Jeffries that helped us when we were playing handball. Here are some pictures –

Have a great weekend!!!

This week in P5b we have been learning and enjoyed……

How to draw fireworks. Katie & Casey

Adding tens and units. Callum

I enjoyed the Handball festival.  Archie, Jamie, Mark & Jordan

I enjoyed doing the grid references in mapping.  Gary

I enjoyed using co-ordinates to find things/places on a map.  Noah

I enjoyed the BBB.  Harry, Steven & Aiden

I enjoyed looking at the Atlases.  Fiona & Michelle

I enjoyed linking our maths to our fireworks (radial symmetry).  Tobin

I enjoyed topic work.  Dasha

I enjoyed saying what we liked about Christmas with Mrs Drummond.  Katya & Robyn

I enjoyed researching the towns and villages in West Lothian.  Cameron & Kamron

I learned how to do my hundreds, tens and ones.  Paige

I enjoyed doing the radial symmetry in art. Jack

I enjoyed going to Mrs Drummond’s class and learning about the birth of Jesus and when Mark said, ‘back to the future,’ instead of ‘back to the studio!’ Everyone laughed.  Luca

I enjoyed doing the poem about our favourite place in Scotland.  Gary & Archie

I enjoyed starting The Twits.  Fiona

I enjoyed the 5 minute frenzy.  Noah & Gabriel

Have a great weekend.

What a great week in P5a!

In maths we have been working with subtraction and addition inverse. We were all quite surprised that you can make an adding sum from a takeaway sum. Some of us find adding easier than taking away so that’s a new strategy we can use to help in our numeracy and maths work. Here’s an example –

19-3=16 is the same as 16+3=19 …easy peasy!

Our writing this week has been to stretch sentences on our own without the help of Mrs Drummond. We are definitely finding that using sentence stretchers helps a lot and we are all very confident when using this approach.

LATC

We built our trebuchets this week! We built a jenga wall to test our trebuchet’s once they were finished. Here are some pictures-

We had a good discussion about how the trebuchets could have been improved as some of them didn’t quite fire far enough to hit the Jenga wall.

Have a great holiday week !!!!!

Another busy week!

COMPREHENSION

We have been doing lots of work on asking and answering questions. We are learning to use a variety of different types of questions in class to develop higher order thinking. We are using blooms questions to help with this. We have also been looking at comprehension to aid our understanding of the texts we read. We have been using the SRA resource to help us with this. We are becoming very independent in using this resource. We understand the importance of listening to questions and identifying what is actually being asked. This is a skill that we need to develop as we use it in every area of our learning.

WRITING

In writing this week we have been developing our ability to stretch sentences. We all had great fun and were very successful with this. We took a basic sentence and stretched it by adding adjectives, adverbs, who, why, where, when and what.

Lennox – I learned how to use a verb and an adverb in my sentences

Ciaran – using the sentence stretchers makes building sentences easy

Ty – it was fun using the sentence stretchers

LATC

LATC has been great fun this week as we have all designed a Trebuchet and included instructions for building it. We had to label our design parts with the resources we would need to construct the trebuchet. Next week we will use the designs in a Home Team challenge ……watch this space!

MATHS

Last week we learned about different angles and we were able to link that with this week’s learning about triangles –

Scott – there are three different types of triangle; equilateral, scalene and isosceles

Sophie – the three sides of an equilateral triangle are all the same length

Ciaran – the inside angles are all the same in an equilateral triangle

Tom – the scalene triangle has one right angle

MUSIC

In music this week we were learning to represent a piece of music as a drawing. We used Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a context for learning. We listened to one of the seasons and had to identify (through discussion) what the season was then we drew a picture to represent the season which was spring.

Have a great weekend………this time next week !!!!!!!!

We have learned a lot this week in P5B……

I learned how to show shading on an apple.  Paige

This week I enjoyed music with Mrs Drummond.  I learned that music can make a picture in your head.  Fiona

This week I enjoyed doing my science and learning how water evaporates.  Jamie

I learned how to shade an apple.  Katya

I learned all about evaporation in science. Michelle

I enjoyed maths on Monday when we did chimney sums.  Archie

I enjoyed building the trebuchet with Mrs Mackenzie.  Tobin

In maths I learned about different types of angles; obtuse, acute and right angles. Gary

I enjoyed going into Mrs Drummond’s class and learned how to think about what a song is about and draw it.  Aiden

I learned the names of lots of new angles.  Cameron

Have a great weekend.

A huge well done to everyone in P5B for a wonderful assembly.  They all worked really hard to learn their words and the words for the songs!! They were all fabulous!

I enjoyed the assembly because everyone liked it. Aiden

I really the enjoyed the assembly because everyone worked hard and sang well. I enoyed Achieving, Believing and Celebrating. Jack

I really enjoyed learning the words for my assembly and for everyone taking part! Kamron

I enjoyed the assembly because I thought I was going to be really nervous but when I said my words I wasn’t.  Harry

I enjoyed the assembly because everyone got to see their families and we showed all the other teachers that we are No. 1! Stacey

I enjoyed practising the assembly and learning all the songs.  Fiona

I enjoyed singing the songs at the assembly.  Callum

I enjoyed the assembly, the songs and my part.  Mark

I enjoyed the assembly, learning the songs.  Dasha

I liked learning the songs for the assembly.  Lauryn

I enjoyed doing the team building and discussing what we needed for the trebuchet and I enjoyed counting the number of right angles on the tables – 118!! Murray

I liked maths when we went around the class finding right angles.  Gary

I enjoyed playing with the big ball at break. Noah

Article 29

Your education should help you develop your talents and abilities.  It should also help you live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.