Day: November 17, 2021

This week has been Scottish Book Week and Primary 5 have been very engaged in this.

We have been involved in various activities such as ‘Stop, Drop & Read’ where we would get a signal to stop what we were doing and start reading! Mrs Hillan brought her book too!

PUPIL THOUGHTS:

Gracie – It was fun to do!

Summer – It was a good opportunity to read our books.

Erin R – I liked that we had to drop everything, even writing, and just pick up our books.

Ciaran – It was quite good that we kind of got better at reading from this.

Iona – I found this a relaxing time to read.

Ryley – I found it relaxing how it was nice and peaceful, for everyone to just hear the voice inside their head.

 

 

We also had some time to discuss books we like and our thoughts on reading in general:

Olivia – This week has been fun because I like to read. I really like to continue my book at Stop, Drop and Read.

Kayleigh – I liked when we stopped what we were doing and just read.

Sophie G – I am reading ‘A series of unfortunate events’ and I’m really enjoying it!

Chloe – I’m reading a book called ‘Mr Nobody’s Eyes’ and it is by Michael Morpurgo.

Lewis D – I’m reading a book called ‘Mr Skip’. I like it!

Lewis R – I’m reading a book called ‘Cool’ by Michael Morpurgo.

Ariah – I’m reading ‘Awful Auntie’ by David Walliams and it is really good!

We had fun making ourselves into Professors of Hogwarts too! We had to give ourselves a name, say what we taught, which house we were part of and what our skills were. Here are some of our ideas:

We had lots of fun designing costumes for a book character, which we then recreated using recycled materials we had brought from home. Here are some of our designs in the making:

Here we are creating our costumes:

Here are some of our finished costumes!! We had lots of fun making these!

Another activity we have enjoyed this week, is watching Author’s Live, where we got to see some author’s talk about their stories.

In Numeracy we have continued looking at Place Value. We worked on testing a partner on their knowledge of this. We asked the types of questions Mrs Hillan has been asking us, such as “What is the value of the hundreds digit?” or “What value does the number 9 hold in this number?” etc.

 

 

In Writing we completed some persuasive pieces on Why Writing is Important. As we wrote, some of us read parts of our writing aloud. We also had an opportunity to peer assess each other’s work.

We are looking forward to more new learning next week!

This week we have been working hard on developing the Reciprocal Reading skill of Summarising. We have been using the idea of 5-5-1. This is where we write 5 sentences about the chapter or book, 5 words to describe the book and 1 word to sum up the whole book. Here are some of our pieces of work.

We are continuing to work on the Persuasive genre of writing. This week we were arguing why pets are good for our health. We came up with some incredible reasons to convince our audience that having a pet can be incredibly beneficial for our lives and mental health. This week we have been focusing on using persuasive vocabulary, such as ‘I strongly believe’ or ‘I am certain that you will agree’ . Here are a few examples of our work.

This week has been Scottish Book Week. We have been working on a few different activities throughout the week to promote reading within our classroom. We have enjoyed listening to a few sessions of  Authors Live, we have taken part in Stop Drop and Read everyday and have been busy designing and making a diorama scene from our favourite books.

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of our learning so far this week.