We were rainbow writing our sounds this week. Word Wizards were learning the ‘ea’ as in break sound, Master Minds were learning the i_e sound and the Spelling Stars were learning the ‘sh’ sound. (Aroush)
We wrote Autumn Acrostic poems this week. (Orla & Lena S.)
We have been doing some reading this week with our groups and we have also started doing guided reading. (Andrew)
In Maths, we have been learning all about Place Value. We have been looking at 1 before and after as well as 10 before and 10 after. (Samuel)
We have been learning about what makes us special, we completed a Pieces of Me task made up of jigsaw pieces that make us who we are. (Maisie)
We all had a football taster this week, we learned to dribble forwards and backwards, stop the ball, scoring a goal, toe taps and keepy uppies. (Daniel & Ethan)
In Art we learned all about hot and cold colours. We made pop art style pictures to practise this skill. (Julia)
In Science we discussed how different sounds are made. We investigated different musical instruments and sorted them into categories depending on how these sounds are made.

Primary 5

Primary 5’s Weekly Round Up

September 13, 2019 Mrs Macdonald Leave a comment

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Primary 5 have had another busy week. What have we up to ?

In Literacy we have used Literacy Circles again and learnt how to be an Illustrious Illustrator and practised the other roles too including Word Wizard , Character Cop and Summariser Sergeant. We are reading a lot more in general and are enjoying this. We have practised our spelling words using lots of active spelling cards. Some of our favourites include: ‘Other Handed’, ‘Rap your Words’, ‘Buzzing Bees’, ‘Colourful Words’ and ‘Upper and Lower’. These activities are fun to complete and help us with the spelling of our words.

We have been learning the skills of what it takes to be a journalist in our writing this week. We were given scenarios and wrote headlines for them. Catherine’s headline, ‘St Nics Steal Sports Award’. Super use of alliteration here !

In Number Talks we have recapped strategies to help us to solve more complex calculations. We are very good at explaining our methods and really enjoy this. We have also learnt how to identify 6 digit numbers and know that their value changes depending on their place.

In our Sports Ed topic, Basketball we have been working in groups to research a famous basketball team. Once we have completed our research we ill make posters/Sway presentations to share our findings.

In R.E we learnt all about St Therese of Liseux and watched a clip of her relics arriving in Edinburgh. What have we learnt ?

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‘She was born in France’ – Lucas C.

‘She died at the age of 24’ -Liam.

‘She died of tuberculosis’ – Gerard.

‘She had four sisters’ – Natan.

‘She is also known as Little Flower’ – Catherine.

‘She became a nun when she was 15’ – Leonard.

‘Her last words were, ‘Oh God I love you’. – Hamza.

‘She cried a lot as a child and struggled’ – Brooke.

‘She did lots of good deeds every day and prayed hard’ – Oliver.

Lots of hard work and learning going on in P5, we are definitely ready for our long weekend.