Month: December 2021

Literacy

In writing, we had to persuade the reader that it is important to protect the Earth. We watched a video and this helped us plan our arguments. When writing our final piece, we used our plan to help us with the correct structure. We had to add in bossy words to persuade the reader that they had to make some small lifestyle changes to help protect our planet.

In reading, we continued to develop our skills of reading with fluency and expression. In our reading groups, we had to listen to adults read the page and then we had to echo it back and add in the expression.

Maths

This week, we were using our place value skills to help us with addition. We were learning about the column addition, where we add the ones first and then the tens. We have to be careful when crossing over the digits.

Additionally, we were continuing to develop our skills when identifying different angles. This week, we were introduced to reflex angles. We were doing some angle yoga and we had to make the angle with our bodies. Then, we would give the name of an angle and we had to use a ruler to draw this given angle.

IDL

In Extreme Earth, we were learning about global warming. Global warming is happening at a faster rate due to human lifestyle choices. Burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gasses and these gasses burn holes in the ozone layer. The ozone layer is an invisible layer that protects Earth from the sun.

I enjoyed rounding and estimation-  LM

I loved doing everything but I liked making a winter art- SLW

I liked finding the things (objects) using the coordinates- KH

For reading, we continued learning to summarise a story.  We also used a range of reading skills to understand what we read.

For writing,  we persuaded our reader regarding the importance of looking after the world.

Primary Five are practising hard for their performance on the 19th December at the Howden Park Centre. Can’t wait!

Topic

Our ‘Under the Sea’ topic is ending, so this week the children had to make boats from a range of materials. Next week we will test them in water to see if they float or sink!

Advent

We have started our advent in class. Each child will have a turn to unwrap a book and that will be our story for the day. Yesterday, in ‘Careful, Santa!’, Santa lost all the gifts and his little mouse helper! Thankfully, he found them and was still on time to deliver the presents. A few of us were a bit worried he would not make it!

We also have Santa’s beard to count down the number of sleeps until Christmas. (This is something the children started).

Novel

Our class novel is ‘The Christmasaurus’ which we have just started. It is a fun story and a little bit silly! We will have some fun activities linked to our novel when we have read a little bit more.

Deans Decision Makers

Our Deans Decision Makers have been very busy planning lots of different activities for us throughout December, so ask your child what we have done in class each day as part of our whole school Christmas activities. On the 1st December, we had to think of things that make us happy and put them in our ‘happy box’.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

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!