This week in Primary 5 we have been working hard!
In Numeracy we have been busy taking part in the Sumdog competition. We have been excited to see where we are in the leader board, and we have been trying our best to get better and better!! Here is what the children had to say about it:
Ariah – It was really fun and I got on the leader board in Junk Pile.
Ciaran – It was fun sharing the laptop with my friends. I like getting on the leader board!!
Erin R – I like playing Powerboat and right now I am top of the leader board in that game!
Caelan – I was playing Cannonball and I got second on the leader board out of the full school!
Holly – It was fun to see where we were on the leader board.
Lewis R – It was fun playing with my friends.
Sophie C – I liked playing Cannonball and I got third on the leader board!
Olivia – I enjoyed playing Sumdog and as I was playing, it turned out I was in fourth place.
Here we are trying to get super scores on the competition:
In Writing this week we have completed our Persuasive writing assessment. We had the topic of ‘Why Should We Look After the World?’. This brought about some good discussion on climate change, global warming, recycling (which linked to last week’s topic) and the extinction of animal species. Here we are showing off our work or busy at work:
In Spelling this week we did a task where we wrote out our words, but left a letter missing. Someone from our group had to fill in the missing letter. We could extend this next time by missing out more than one letter!
In Reading we have been enjoying our group readers and also our reading for enjoyment texts. We have tried to continue Stop, Drop and Read when we can, since we enjoyed it so much. We have also completed a comprehension task, which used our skills in answering questions, but also linked to our topic as it was about Planet Earth. Here are some facts we learned from this:
Lewis D – The Earth takes 24 hours to do a full spin on its axis.
Matthew – It takes the Earth 17 milliseconds to increase speed.
Caelan – The Sun is as far away from Earth as 150,000km!
Erin R – The lowest point on Earth is Challenger Deep.
In topic this week we completed a STEM task called Fizzy Moon. We needed to use paint, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. Here is what we had to do:
1: Fill up a small spray bottle with vinegar and set aside.
2: In a few separate cups, for every 1/2 tablespoon of paint, mix with a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda.
3: Draw a circle on a piece of black card.
4: Use the paint brushes to paint the Moon with shades of blue (the paint needed to be thick). Let the Moon dry and draw a few stars around it with a white crayon or marker.
5: Once the moon painting is completely dry, use the spray bottle to squirt vinegar onto it and watch it fizz.
This was great fun to do, but we weren’t so happy about our classroom stinking of vinegar!! Here are some photos of our STEM task:
Also in topic we have begun researching what we have learned from Space Explorations. We will have some facts to share on this next week hopefully!
