Month: March 2022

This week in Primary 5 we have had some more time on Digital Learning:

We were doing some more coding and we discussed what we wanted to be when we are older – Ariah

With coding we did stuff with a snail and a spider. The spider could pick up the snail and go back to where its’ web was – Gracie

We did something called Stepping through Space, where you had to guide a rocket to Planet Earth whilst avoiding asteroids and other planets – Erin R

In spelling this week we had the choice of creating a story using our spelling words or picking one of the spelling tasks we have. Some of us used pyramid writing, some rainbow writing and some of us practised with a partner using noughts and crosses or writing our words on our partner’s back etc.

In Numeracy we have been looking at money. Mrs Hillan wanted to see what we were able to do so far and what we already knew. We did some activities where we had to make amounts of money using various coins and counting up amounts of money. This required us to use our coin recognition skills as well as our addition skills.

In Writing we began our Descriptive writing block. This links in with our Narrative writing so we had a good place to start. We began this week by looking at the big book example which was all about the moon. We discussed each section and then wrote our own versions of the description, using our own words and phrases.

In topic this week we had a go at creating some Celtic designs and thought about incorporating these into a piece of jewellery.

We also started creating our Celtic Roundhouses. We chose the materials we wanted to use and how best to tackle the task. In each group we had a facilitator to oversee the whole task, a time keeper to watch the time that we had to complete the task, a materials manager who collected all the materials we needed, and a quality checker who checked how our roundhouse was looking as we went along. We will finish these next week!

We look forward to some more fun learning next week!

Literacy

This week was the last week of our narrative writing. We had to read over our feedback and try and up-level our writing. We were writing about a spring adventure. We watched a short video about the things we may see in spring and added in this detail to our story. We had use our imagination to think of a complication which would make the reader want to read on. After we had finished writing, we swapped jotters with our elbow partner and we peer assessed our work using the success criteria.

In reading this week, we were reading a passage to find information. We read a passage about Pancake Day and we learnt lots of fun facts. Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Tuesday and is the day before lent begins. We had to use our decoding skills to help us sound out unfamiliar words. Then, we were using our skimming and scanning skills to help us answer questions about the text.

Maths

In our time topic, we continued to learn about converting analogue and digital times. We were also learning about writing the correct time in words. In addition to this, we started to introduce 5 minute intervals on the analogue clock.

IDL

For our sports topic, we continued to study the heart. This week, we carried out an experiment to see what happened to our heartbeat as we exercised. For the majority of us, we observed that our heartbeat increased as we exercised. Therefore, we investigated why our heart beats faster during exercise. We found out that this happens because our heart is pumping oxygen all around our body.

Monday:

Green Gym – we started this excellent activity today, with a problem solving task.

Maths – started looking at  scale, as this will help our understanding of the timelines we are working on

In language new spelling words went out. The class also wrote their narrative pieces “If I were a ….. “. The inspiration for this came from “Strawberry”, my pet snake which I had brought in and fascinated the class.

In PE we extended our learning on hockey, focusing keeping the ball close to the stick for accuracy on push passes. AS, SU, SD, EY  and SJR excelled.

For IDL today we carried on work on the timelines.

Tuesday:

In language today we looked at the original script of “Macbeth” and some of the old fashioned words.

For maths we continued to look at scale.

For IDL today we continued work on the Tudors, with partners researching famous people from the time, and continued writing biographies about them. We also continued work on the timelines, adding baby photos and “Not to scale”

Wednesday:

Maths: work on fractions including whole number.

Language today was another reading comprehension about the Tudors. The whole class found this very interesting.

The class was delighted to be able to at last support the P1s in ICT

Thursday:

With Ms T the class did activities relating to world book day.

We also did drama today based around “Macbeth”.

Mark worked with the class on a health activity on what will happen to the children in the future and they wrote letters to their future selves.

For IDL today we were finishing off work on biographies and timelines.

Friday:

Maths: worked on times tables practise.

PE: tennis activities. Also our class game: “Ball Tig”

Hello, we say it every week but what a busy week!!!

Our Reward

The children filled their marble jar and they decided that they wanted their reward to be a trip to the park. It was a lovely bright morning and the children had lots of fun with Mrs Lockhart and Miss Webster.

IDL

Our IDL stations are new to us as it is not something we have done before. The children have been very engaged in their learning and excited to be part of the different activities in the classroom.

The science experiment is allowing the children to experience first-hand how our digestion works. It gets a little messy but the children loved it! We have also been learning some very tricky words linked to our body, how our lungs work and making a model of our lungs.

This is a weekly rotation so not all children have visited each station yet.

Numeracy

We are working hard on division and trying to understand the concept. We have worked hard as a group to share our knowledge with each other and use different strategies to help us solve different equations.

The children took some of the pictures.

Have a lovely weekend!