Category Archives: Primary 5

Primary 4, Primary 5

P5/4 group writing

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Today we have been learning how to work in a group and write a group story.

First we chose our picture that we were going to write about. We used this to help us plan. We had to describe the picture using adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs. We also choose a title.

Then we wrote our starting sentence. It had to hook the reader in. We then each suggested a sentence to continue our story.

Today was our first draft and next week we are going to edit and fix our mistakes, we found that it didn’t always make sense.

Primary 4, Primary 5

Being systematic

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In Maths we have been learning how to be systematic when solving problems.

“Being systematic is working in order to find all the answers” – Jaxon

We were set the the challenge to find out how many ways there were to make a tower of 5 using 2 colours.

It was very tricky to find all the answers and make sure we worked in order. We used the cubes to help us see the pattern.

“One colour can move down the tower until it’s at the bottom.” – Aiden

“Once you have got to the bottom you change one colour and start again” – Kaitlin.

We didn’t find all the solutions but we loved the challenge.

 

Primary 4, Primary 5

Scottish Maths Week -P5/4

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As part of Scottish Maths week we have been looking at different types of patterns.

Yesterday we looked at number visuals. We had to work out what number the number visual was. We then discussed what patterns we could see.

” I saw two groups of 4 dots and then doubled it” – Jaxon

“I saw two groups of 5 to make 10 then doubled it to see 20″ – Natalie

We then tried to make our own number visuals using the same patterns we found to help us

 

Today we continued to look at patterns and used Pascal’s triangle.  In groups we talked about what patterns we could see straight away.

 

We then then had to work out what the missing numbers in Pascal’s triangle.

” I think you add the 2 numbers on the end to find each number” – Mackenzie

” The number is found by repeating the pattern – 1, 4, 4, 4, 1″ – Szymon

We worked out together that to find the missing number we have to add the 2 numbers above it.

We can’t wait to continue finding patterns this week  Tomorrow we’re going to use Izak9.

 

Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

Websites for P4, P5, P6 and P7

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Here is a list of websites and games that you can play and use at home to support your child’s learning.

If you have websites or apps that you use at home which you’d recommend, please let us know.

Miss Cooke, Miss Park and Mrs Monahan

Primary 4, Primary 5, Uncategorized

P5/4 first 2 weeks

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We have had an excellent start to the new school. We have enjoyed exploring our new classroom and getting to know each other a bit better.

We have been talking about what makes a great friend. We discussed different qualities a friend has and looked at which was most the important. For our class we decided that being honest was the most important quality. We also looked at qualities we all have in the class. We were each given a name of a classmate and in secret had to write what we thought they bought to the class. At the end, we all felt amazing as everyone had written lots of nice things about each other.

Im maths we have started looking at different strategies to add and subtract. We are using numberlines to start with and are moving on to partitioning this week.  Miss Cooke has set us a range of questions through the “chilli challenge” – this means we can all challenge our learning.

In P.E we have have started to learn different skills in Netball. We focused on chest passes and looked at how to use the space to pass the ball. We have P.E on Wednesday and Thursday

We cant wait to learn more as the term progresses.

 

Primary 5, Primary 6

Handball

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Well done to our schools Handball team. They have been a great inspiration in our school, working well as a team and motivating others. The team took part in the Whitburn cluster Handball League and finished second. This then secured Greenrigg a place in the Handball National Primary Championships with Whitdale Primary School. Well done to all pupils who participated, we were so proud of your sportsmanship, attitude and teamwork.