Month: February 2022

Monday:

Extended writing on writers craft, continuing the narrative theme. The class watched the first part of a short animation called “Trapdoor”, and then finished writing the story themselves. The focus was on adjectives, similes and metaphors. KH was proud of their written work.

Maths was spent continuing work on percentages. SS, LM, LH and ShP excelled in this.

PE was spent working on tennis skills. MM, MxD, ShP and EY excelled in this.

We also started a KWL grid to support our learning on vertebrates and invertebrates.

Tuesday:

In Maths we were still working on percentages, with two groups using calculators. A third group started to revise place value.

Literacy was spent bumping up narrative from the previous day, continuing to focus on adjectives, similes, metaphors and speech marks. Two groups did this by writing up their work into a word document. MDs lead the learning on this, showing the class how to make a Folder in Teams. To link with this work in the afternoon, we continued “Macbeth”, with drama and a descriptive writing passage about the battle and the witches, still focussing on adjectives, similes, metaphors and speech marks.

 

Wednesday:

Maths was spent working on angles. EY and MxD excelled.

Some people spent time during literacy today bumping up the “Breakfast Time” work from the previous day, especially speech marks.

The class were also putting up fences around the bug hotel with Mrs Dobbie.

Thursday:

In maths today one group used calculators to help their understanding of fractions, division, decimals and percentages. Another group worked on their understanding of place value while the third group worked on ways to simplify percentages.

With Mrs D  the class started designing their Mars Rovers and did French days of the week and months of the year.

 

Friday:

Spelling, as usual.

PE: activities to support awareness of space. LI “Using appropriate movement skills I can often move about shared space without anyone bumping into me.”

Maths: review of all the work we have done so far this year, looking at learning intentions and how we can transfer the skills and use them in real life.

During the assembly LM, who had also won the star award, confidently and dramatically read their great story to the whole school.

During friendship time SU, EY and SD elected to teach each other science facts! Also LH shared an activity with some friends.

 

 

 

Digital Day

Yesterday, we had a very fun day doing lots of different digital learning. We practiced our keyboard skills, we worked on coding a character and we even made robots move! We also made a short movie, in our groups, by taking lots of pictures, step by step and then adding them altogether to look like a movie. We have uploaded the videos onto Seesaw if you want to see our amazing work!

“It was the best day!” Hussain.

“I was so good at the typing!” – Katie

Scotland

Our display is now finished for our McCoos and tartan and we thought you would like to see it! This week for IDL, we looked at a map of Scotland and what the key in a map tells us. We then learned some facts about different cities in Scotland and had to label the cities on a map.

Writing

We have had another busy lesson for writing this week. The children had to tell a recount of a visit to the park. The children are working hard to include our core-writing targets and use a joining word to extend a sentence.

 

We started a new maths topic – area. First we used cubes to create specific areas then we worked out the area of a variety of 2D shapes using the formula length times breadth. Good work P.5!

 

 

This week in P5 we have continued with our digital learning. We learned more in coding so that we were able to make several items move on a screen at one time. We were very engaged in this and excited to see how many items we could get moving at once.

Chloe – I liked when we could make our own code because I figured out you could make your own background and I made a house.

Gracie – I liked how we could move all the characters around, it was fun!

Lewis R – I liked the coding because it was fun that you could make your own background.

Giullia – It was really fun how we could tell the little characters what to do. It was really interesting!

Kayleigh – I really liked moving the characters around.

Ariah – I liked how you could make the characters move and decorate the background.

Sophie C – It was really cool how we got to move the characters around and we got to choose where they went. We could also change the background.

Matthew – I liked that we could multiply the characters and could change the characters to get different colours.

Sophie G – It was how we could customise our own background.

In Numeracy we worked on dividing by 9 and 7 in one group and then linking division and multiplication and dividing 3 digit numbers in the other groups. It is still apparent that for many of us, we need to learn our tables as we don’t all know these yet. Mrs Hillan has given us times table and division charts home on a few occasions so that we have these at home to practise. Mrs Hillan encourages us to do this when we can!

 

In Literacy we have made predictions on the next part of our stories. This week, some of our groups were asked to try and find evidence from our text to support our thinking.

In spelling this week we made wordsearches using our spelling words and we also practised them with a partner using Spelling Tennis:

In Writing this week, we used our maps we created last week to write our own adventure stories. We had to remember to include a problem and resolution.

 

In topic we have started creating some Celtic families. In our groups we created a family which contained at least 2 adults and some children. We started drawing these family members and recorded some information about them below their pictures. We decided on family names and had to make sure that they were dressed appropriately for Celtic times. We will continue these next week, ready for our class display.