Primary 4/5 have been busy recreating the solar system using oil pastels. Our main focus of today’s lesson was to blend two or more colours using oil pastels. We had to choose relevant colours for each planet and blend the colours together using our fingers. This was much trickier than we thought it was going to be.
We also had to ensure that our planets were in the right order from the Sun. We have each made a little mnemonic to help us to remember the order of the planets.
Primary 4/5 are preparing to be the first ever astronauts to land on Mars in the year 2030.
First we had to see how much we already know about the planet. We worked with our shoulder partner to sort out fact from fiction. There were 10 questions altogether each with three statements. Only one card contains a true statement. We already know quite a lot about Mars; our top scoring pair scored 8 out of 10…super!
Our next task was to discuss what 6 items we would take to Mars with us. We had lots to choose from so narrowing it down to 6 was quite tricky. We had to justify our reason for choosing our 6 items. We discussed each item as a class to decide if it really would be useful on Mars.
Primary 4/5 have been learning to up-level their writing and make it even better. We all wrote a newspaper article last week to report the Apollo 11 moon landing. The teacher read every one and provided feedback to everyone. Mrs Cree pointed out things that she liked and things than could be improved upon.
The first thing we had to do was read over our original report. We then looked at the feedback from the teacher. As we were re-drafting, we were encouraged to make changes to our writing. Some of us even made changes that weren’t suggested by Mrs Cree.
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Primary 4/5 have been actively spelling this week. Our phoneme was ‘j’ and we know three different representations of that phoneme. We thought of lots of different words with the ‘j’ phoneme and sorted them into a phoneme chart.
Mrs Cree and Primary 4/5 would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Primary 4/5 worked together with their shoulder partner and used their problem solving skills to investigate who stole Mrs Claus’ Christmas pudding.
Primary 4/5 were inspired by the 2016 M&S advert featuring Mrs Claus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5QPXhStb5I. We discussed the importance of thinking of others at Christmas. Everyone thought about someone they would like to send a present to and wrote a letter to Mrs Clause asking for a very special gift.
Continue reading P4/5 Dear Mrs Claus…
Primary 4/5 would like to share their reindeer portraits with you. The children listened very carefully to Mrs Cree’s instructions and they were all very pleased with the end result.
We hope you like them as much as we do!
