This week in topic, we explored what dinosaurs ate.  We learned that most dinosaurs ate leaves and plants.  These dinosaurs are called herbivores.  Some dinosaurs ate meat. They are called carnivores.  We sorted pictures of carnivores and herbivores. During this, we learned that brachiosaurus, stegosaurus and triceratops were plant eaters and T-Rex’s and velociraptors were meat eaters.   Next week we will look at a dinosaur food chain.

 Yesterday we went to the local library.  When we arrived, the librarian read us a dinosaur story.  We also got to choose our own library books to take home.  We will visit the library again in two week’s time.

Pupil of the week – Jay M

Table of the week – Giggly Gang

This week we had great fun with problem solving and team work. With a partner we had to tie a shoe lace. It sounds easy but the tricky part was we had to it with one hand behind our back! Some people found it really hard. We all got there in the end.

Ray J – The lace tying was fun but it was also really hard. I kept wanting to use both hands.

Chloe L – It was really hard at the beginning but we worked out what to do by giving each other instruction about how to make the first bunny ear then the second. We got it tied in the end!

Jamie N – It was hard working the lace with my fingers and not using my other hand.

In our maths this week we have begun to build on our existing knowledge of money. Some of us are working with concrete materials making, for example, 20p as many ways as we can. Others are being introduced to the decimal point and how to represent, for example, 36p as a decimal.

Kerry M – I liked using the money to make 10p. I made it three different ways.

Anais P – I liked learning about the decimal point. Now I can write any amount of pence up to 99p as a decimal.

Our writing this week has been a challenge as we try to apply what we have been learning about stretching our sentences. This week we have been encouraged to try this without prompting. Jay M was particularly successful with this task when writing about a day in the life of a chimney boy in the Victorian times. His writing was so good he received a round of applause from the class after he read it out!

Sasha B – Writing was really fun this week because I got to use my imagination and pretend to be a chimney boy. I remembered about using the sentence stretcher ideas to make my story more interesting.

In music this week we have been listening to Vivaldi’s four seasons. We had to listen to the first five minutes and using what we already know about classical music try to determine which season the music represented. Then, while listening to the music, we drew a picture to represent the season.

Sam D – It was fun listening to the four seasons music and drawing a picture of springtime. The music made me think of sunshine, flowers growing, green fields and kids going out to play with their dogs.

….and with that another great week in p5d comes to an end. Have a great weekend!

Here are some things we have enjoyed so far this week…..

Aaron, Craig and Travis enjoyed having an extra PE lesson on Wednesday!

In PE this week Sophie enjoyed learning about strength and play Bulldogs and Beetles. 

Taylor, Josh, Robbie  and  Lily enjoyed making Easter eggs with Miss Henderson.

Cameron enjoyed the Big Start weighing challenge!

P5m have been presenting their class talks on Victorian inventions.

Erin Hardwick, Ava and Adam class talk was  on the telephone! How did people ever survive without telephones!!

Eva’s class talk was on the X-Ray!

Charlie’s class talk was on Coca Cola! Nadia learned from Charlie’s talk that Coca Cola was used to make cough medicine taste nicer!

Lisa’s class talk was on the type writer! 

Erin Madden’s class talk was on the camera! Say cheese!

Ross and Mirren really enjoyed listening to all the class talks!

Scott’s class talk was on the car!

Aaron’s class talk was on the train!

Well done to all those who gave their class talks and good luck to those who still have to present.

On Friday we performed our class assembly. The theme was TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More!

Taylor – I think our assembly was amazing and we all worked really hard on it.

 Sam – I enjoyed our assembly and us all working together as a team to create a really epic assembly.

 Christopher A – All our hard work we put in paid off as it all came out so well.

 Rabeea – This week I enjoyed doing the testing. I mostly enjoyed the maths one because it moved from easy to hard level and it was testing to see how difficult I could go.

 Fraser – I enjoyed P.E. with Mr Jeffries because I liked working with my team during badminton to see how many points we could win.

 Callum – I enjoyed reading this week’s Literature Circle reading because it was really exciting to find out what happened next in Lord Loss.

 Sam – I really enjoyed Literature Circles too. It was week 4 and my role was Discussion Duck and the book is starting to get so exciting that I ended up reading to the end!

 Tom – The testing was a little bit boring and also quite difficult because it was asking us some questions we didn’t know the answer to.

 Who has impressed?

 Rebecca – Jane impressed me by getting MVP from Mr Jeffries for PE this month.

 Rabeea – Jane has impressed me by learning her lines for Captain Scotland and putting lots of expression into her performance.

 Abbie – I’m impressed by Taylor because she stepped in at the last minute and learned somebody else’s part as well as her own.

 Josh – I’m impressed by everybody in the class and Mr Berginis because we all put such a marvellous assembly on.

 Taylor – I’m impressed with the class for putting on an amazing performance and how we worked together as a team. Also Abbie because she learned her lines so quickly.

Jane – I’m impressed with Louise because she really got into the character of Jenny Long Legs and was able to act in an annoying way!

 Fraser – I’m proud of Rabeea, Alistair, Jessica and Ewan for doing so well representing the school in the Rotary Quiz.

 Mr Berginis – I’m very proud of all of the class for how hard they worked as a team and how well they performed their assembly (including all my rubbish jokes!)

This week we have been working very hard in language. In our reading we have been using the book Zog. We were discussing the meaning of different words. We were looking for words in the text that we could change and thinking of words that mean the same thing. For example: “What a great idea” said Zog – We had ideas to change ‘great’ to super, wonderful, fantastic, fabulous and many more! Also, we have been learning about verbs this week and listened to the verb rap. We now know that a verb is an ‘action word’. In our writing we were finishing our dragon stories. We are getting very good at writing stories with a beginning, middle and end.

In our castles topic we have been learning about the people who lived in castles and the types of jobs they had. We know that there were servants, cooks and knights in a castle. Also there is a gong farmer and nonbody would like to have his job. He cleaned out the toilets!

We also know that a knight needs to a crest to let other people know who he is. We found out what different colours and symbols mean on the crests and designed our own.

We have been working hard on our class weekly targets over the last 4 weeks and today we received our class prize. We got two greens and two ambers on our targets overall so we got to have 15 minutes extra golden time today! Next time we hope to get all greens and get the bigger prize!

We are still practising our Skellybones and are looking forward ot the performance. Remember to return your slips. Also, the letters for our trip to Stirling Castle went out this week and we are all excited about learning more about castle life during an interactive handling session. Please remember to return the slips as soon as possible.

Awards:

Class Dojo and Table of the Week  – We will find out on Monday.

MVP – Evie

Drama – Holly

Poster Competiton – Mya

Well done to everyone who entered the competition.

See you next week.

This week we thought we would share with you our thoughts on what we have been learning:

Annabelle – I love learning about Castles.

James – I like learning about groups of things in Maths.

Finn – My mum helped me make my Tin Man costume, it was good.

Charlie – I am great at writing sentences.

We loved drawing our Wizard of  Oz pictures for the Float Competition.  It was great fun and we listened to the Wizard of Oz music while we drew. We were not impressed by Mrs Haddifon’s impression of the Cowardly Lion though…….

We are getting very excited about Mr Skellybones and can’t wait to show it to you all.  Some of us have still to return our ticket slips though. 

We also took home our trip letters and are looking forward to touring Stirling Castle and dressing up in their costumes as we love drssing up in our class!

It’s been a very busy time in p5d!

Last Friday we had a Victorian tea party. All the children really enjoyed sharing their learning with the parents. We did lots of different activities including copper plate writing, making thumatropes, peg dolls and fortunes tellers. We also had a tea party with homemade scones and cucumber sandwiches and we had tea in fancy cups like the Victorians would have! The adults found our Victorian tea party etiquette amusing. We finished the morning off with a Victorian song that everyone really enjoyed.

Lucy M – I enjoyed making a fortune teller with mt mum.

Teigan R – having my mum in class was exciting and we made a peg doll.

This week we visited New Lanark as part of our Victorian topic. We visited the Victorian school room where we dressed up as Victorian school children and had a pretend lesson. We also went on the Annie McLeod ride which told us about her life in the Victorian times. We were all surprised that children would work a 10 hour day and then go to school afterwards. Mrs Drummond thinks this is a great idea!

Rachel Q – I really enjoyed the Annie McLeod experience.

Also, we have been learning how to stretch sentences. We can all see a difference in our work already! We now know how to make our sentences more interesting by using who, why, where, when and what.

Mhairi H – I know when there is a noun I can add an adjective to make it more interesting.

That’s all folks!

This week we have been learning about what goes on inside our bodies.  We enjoyed exploring the organs which work inside our bodies, and are very curious to find out more about what they all do!

We were interested to find out that most of the organs are a similar pinky colour, and were fascinated with the length of our intestines!

In French this week we have been learning to count from zero to five, and practising greetings.

Thank you to all of the family members who attended a busy shared-start event yesterday.  We love welcoming you into our classroom 🙂