This week, we learned about the weighing of the heart. The Ancient Egyptians believed that when you died your heart got weighed to see if you were a good person. If your heart was light then you lived a good kind life, but if your heart was heavy you were eaten up by God Ammut!
We also found out about the one of the most famous Egyptian’s Tutankhamun. He was a pharaoh and Howard Carter found his tomb filled with lots of gold. We then found out that people and animals that entered the tomb were cursed. We acted out the story in drama and used freeze frames to show how the people in the story felt. We also looked at Tutankhamun’s tomb and looked at all the objects found in his tomb. We thought that the tomb was similar a time capsule. We created our own time capsule including things we could not live without. Lots of us couldn’t live without our families and different types of electronics and food.
In language, we have been learning about contractions. Contractions are shortened versions of words, we really liked finding out which words could be shortened such as cannot > can’t and I am > I’m.
Bye for now,
P3b

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This week we discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb! We turned our role play area into the tomb. We read a play about Howard Carter and we acted out the discovery of the tomb. We had to crawl through tunnels to reach the tomb. In the tomb we discovered lots of treasures and the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun. We used the netbooks to find out more about King Tut. We also researched some different Gods. Mya brought in some figures of Egyptian Gods so we looked up their names on the internet.

In Tutankhamun’s tomb they discovered his sarcophagus. He has a beautiful blue and gold death mask. We used colour and pattern to design our own death masks for a display.

In reading this week we have been learning about fact and opinion. We had to sort out information about King Tut. We had to decide whether it was a fact or only someone’s opinion. We found this quite tricky and are going to look at it again next week.

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Article 17: Right to Information

In Health lessons just now we are focusing on internet safety:

Antonia: “We’ve learned how to be safe on the internet by only choosing to do things which are sensible and appropriate.”

Jay: “Be careful what you click on when online because you could end up losing money by giving out your credit card details to people who are trying to commit fraud.”

Finlay: “We’ve learned that phishing is when someone online puts an advert on top of a virus to try and make you click it. If you click it you could end up with a virus that lets hackers see all your personal details.”

Isla: “If you have a social media account don’t put your personal details such as your address, phone number etc.”

Flyn: “We’ve learned to never look up inappropriate sites because we could end up seeing things that upset us.”

Chloe: “Make sure you don’t put names next to any photos and don’t put up photos where you are wearing uniform that could identify you.”

In maths we have been learning about fractions:

Emily: “We learned how to simplify fractions and we do this because it gives us smaller numbers in the fraction which are easier to use in our head.”

Finlay: “We’ve been learning how to simplifying fractions. To do it you look at both numbers in the fraction and see which times table they are in. Then we divide the top and bottom by that number.”

Lauren U: “Mr Berginis told us that we have to treat the numerator and denominator the same otherwise we are being ‘fraction-ist!’ “

Jack: “We learned yesterday about equivalent fractions. When two fractions are equivalent they are equal and show us the same part but with two different fractions.”

Who has impressed?

Flyn: “Lauren K impressed me by winning the certificate for the Right Respecting School award.”

Antonia: “Harry has impressed me this week because he has been a really good friend by always being there when I need to talk to him.”

Emily: “The Electric Eels table impressed by winning table of the week for the fifth week in a row.”

Chloe: “Adam has impressed me by winning the P.E. MVP award for February.”

Lauren C: “Emma and Ailah in p2 impressed me because they are doing very well in their p2 show.”

Jay: “I’m impressed with my p1 buddy Ellis and he got two certificates at assembly this morning.”

Mr Berginis: “I’m impressed with the resilience shown by the class this week in their maths work while we have been learning about fractions.” 

5d rocks!!!!

Just when we thought we couldn’t get any better we have excelled ourselves by learning a more complicated rhythm pattern that sounds really cool and we even played along with the Meghan Traynor song All About The Bass !!!

Writing

We have been learning about the daily routines of rich and poor Victorian children. We used this as a focus for writing out a timetable for each and it was really interesting to see the difference between the two. We will be using the timetables next week in maths!                                                                                                                  We were also able to relate our work on timetables to this morning’s assembly that showed how the lives of rich and poor children were very different and we understand this in the context of social norms and values.

We will now be doing a weekly reading rave slot (an idea pinched from Mrs McKenzie) where we have the opportunity to bring our favourite reading material into school and talk about it with the class. The idea behind this is to encourage those who maybe aren’t keen readers to read more and those who are keen readers have the opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas with the class.

Have a great weekend!

This week in 1w we have been learning more about making collage pictures. Last week we made flowers out of tissue paper and this week we made forrest pictures. Some people even started to add the Gruffalo and the little brown mouse into their picture.

We really enjoy Art in 1w and are becoming fantastic artists! Here is a list of our favourite pieces of art we have made so far in Primary 1:

Jodie – Making my Caribbean beach picture
Katie – Making my 3D parrot as part of home learning
Donna – Painting pictures
Max – Making my 3D parrot out of paper mache
Eva – Drawing pictures of dinosaurs
Lucas – Drawing a pirate portrait
Farrah – Colouring in pictures of our favourite books
Lewis – I enjoy drawing
Anna – Painting pictures

*Article 29 – We have the right to learn to be the best we can be*

This week we learned about the mummification process. We were so shocked when we found that the Ancient Egyptians pulled the brains out through the nose! We then made our own canopic jars- it was great fun!
We also mummified a small toy. We pretended we were the priest wearing an Anubis mask ready to embalm the small toy.
In art we painted a sunset silhouette picture. We had to blend different colours to create a beautiful sunset. They were so good they are displayed on the wall.
In writing we edited our pyramid adventure story and used the laptops to type them up. The laptops were very fun to use. It was a bit tricky using all the keys and knowing where the letters were.

Have a great weekend,
P3b

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Our class trip to New Lanark

We really enjoyed our trip to New Lanark last Monday and wrote Obituaries for Robert Owen in writing.

Here are some of the things we learned and enjoyed…… (I think most peoples favourite part was the Annie McLeod ride!!

I enjoyed the Annie McLeod ride. Gemma B, Louise & Ramsay

I enjoyed listening to the Annie McLeod story whilst on the ride. Jane

Roan enjoyed the river made of Cola! Really Roan??

I enjoyed being a teacher because I could shout at people! Gemma M

I enjoyed the movie about Harmony. Isla

Everything! Kiera H

I really enjoyed the ride and I liked the school room and the film near the end. Casey

Well done to all the drummers and the choir who took part in the opening of the new extension. A special mention to Cameron Muir who did a great job leading the drummers and a huge thank you to Mrs Drummond and Mrs Innes for teaching the drumming and the choir. Well done to everyone for their fantastic artwork. The Victorian Street Scenes looked really effective framed.

Have a lovely weekend!

Wow, what a week!!!!

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of the musicians from both primary five classes who worked extremely hard over the past few weeks to make Thursday’s performance such a great success. I am very proud of each and every one of you!!!!

New Lanark

We had a fantastic time on our trip to New Lanark. We especially enjoyed the Annie McLeod ride and the Victorian classroom. Here are some of our pictures……

LATC

We have decided that toys in the present day are much more fun than in the Victorian times although we did have great fun playing with them in class!

Maths

It’s been fun this week as we have been going over everything we have learned about money before we get to the hard stuff! We really enjoy this as it reminds us of just how much we already know and gives us a real shot of confidence. We are now moving on to a variety of tasks from making a given amount in as many ways as we can and problem solving using money up to £20.

HWB

Mrs Duncan makes P.E. really fun and we weren’t really aware just how much exercise we can get through learning dance moves. We have been learning the moves to Bruno Mars song Uptown Funk. We broke the dance moves down and learned the individual moves then put them into a sequence. Eventually we were able to perform along with the music!!

Writing/Latc

This week we learned about writing and sending an e-mail. We wanted to send an e-mail to the staff at New Lanark to thank them for our fantastic visit. We discussed as a class what information the e-mail should have then we talked about the composition of the e-mail. We were delighted when the staff at New Lanark replied to us thanking us for our kind comments.

Unfortunately Mrs Duncans time with us has come to an end. We have really enjoyed having her with us. Myself and  the boys and girls in P5d will miss her! We have invited Mrs Duncan to visit us in the near future so we hope to see her soon.

Have a great weekend!