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!
