I liked using the Padlet to write our questions, clarifications and summary about our Novel. TN
In writing, I enjoyed writing facts about the bees. MM
I learnt that when we measure an area, we must write the unit of measure e.g. cm2, km2 and m2. LM
This week we wrote an information report about bees. We used our note taking skills and comprehension skills to find facts about them.
Monday:
Maths: Times tables activities
New spelling words given out.
Writing today was the start of our block on information reports: one group wrote about our school while the other wrote about dogs.
Green Gym with Alice was great fun as usual.
In P.E. today we started activities related to athletics.
Tuesday:
In language today one group focussed on writing another information piece, this time about the school. The other group started making notes about their chosen topic on China, ready to write up their piece next week.
For maths we continued to look money. One group worked on simple division, another group on subtraction and the final group worked with the class teacher on partitioning to help multiplication.
Coding with Mrs B was great fun, as always.
We finished off our writing about our future jobs for health.
Wednesday:
With Mrs D today the class planted hedges and fixed up the bug hotel.
Maths: assessment on angles and compass points.
Language today was reading comprehension with the children creating questions about their books. We also used this to introduce the idea of referencing sources by referring to page numbers. As another language activity, and ICT, we used HotPotatoes to create jumbled texts from our reading books.
We also continued our research on China.
As part of our health activities the class continued their research into possible future jobs and career paths.
For technology today we used big building bricks in small groups to make bridges.
Thursday:
Maths: we used a Sumdog challenge to improve our skills with number patterns.
Language today was note taking for our Chinese project as well as spelling.
As part of our health program Mark worked with the class on mental health.
We also looked at the topic work we have covered this year.
A group of P5 children were lucky enough to participate in a sports day with other schools from the area.
Friday:
Maths: continued work on number patterns, individually differentiated.
PE: went on the TrimTrak.
Health: reviewed our work on future jobs.
Reading: identified individual current abilities and next steps.
Here we are checking on the trees we have planted!
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Literacy
We continued to read our group novels and practised visualization skills – drawing a key moment from the text.
We chose an animal and researched using non-fiction books and the internet. We practised taking notes with a partner. Later we wrote an information report about the creature, shared with our class-mates and self-assessed our work using the West Lothian targets.
Bailey – I enjoyed writing the report. We wrote about sharks and I found out that the Whaleshark is the biggest shark.
Jaxson – I liked researching snakes. I found out that snakes use their tongues to smell and their scales help them breathe under water.
Bella – I enjoyed writing about Red Pandas and Pandas – they are very interesting.
PE
In P.E. we continued to practise our gymnastics and tennis skills.
Anton – In tennis I hit the ball to Emily 4 times in a row!
Health
We talked about loss and bereavement and strategies to help us deal with these situations. This was difficult but lots of good ideas were suggested to help us cope.
Numeracy
We have been practising our mental multiplication facts. We have applied this knowledge in order to solve problems and multiply by multiples of 10. In addition we have reinforced how to mentally multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.
Science
We continued to learn about the life cycles of different creatures.
We have had a fun and busy week in P5 this week.
In Green Gym we were given various activities to choose from such as making bandanas using cloth and bit of leaves, grass etc. We used stones and rocks to rub the grass etc inside the cloth and then the colour rubbed off on to the cloth. We also got to build dens, make bird feeders and create little decorations using nails, wood and leaves etc.
In Digital learning we started off the lesson by discussing hardware and software and the differences between these.
Examples of hardware – phone, ipad, laptop, smartboard, computer, console.
Examples of software – apps, wifi, glow, games etc.
We also coded Hungry Snake, where we had to put eggs around the place for the snake to find, but if he touched a rotten egg then the snake had to disappear!
In Numeracy we finished off our data analysis work from last week. In one group we looked at interpreting data from a database and graphs and in the other group we looked at using tally charts to gain information.
In Reading we continued to work on clarifying unknown words in a text. We used our group texts this week and found some really interesting words!
Examples of words we clarified:
hazy, mangy, oblige, contraption, sorrow, particular, wistful, adamant.
We are working hard to do the final work on our Space topic. We have worked in groups again to research the last planets ready to present these and include these in our class encyclopedia.
In Writing this week we picked a different job role to write about. We had to start by making some notes on the job we wanted to write about. Mrs Hillan showed us an example for a nurse. We were given the opportunity to use laptops to research any information we weren’t sure of that we wanted to include.
In spelling this week we created word searches using our words. We also picked from a variety of our strategies such as spelling tennis, back writing and noughts and crosses.
In PE this week we had our second session of badminton skills where we practised different serves. We also went on to have a go at some short games.
Remember it is a holiday on Monday! Enjoy the long weekend!
Literacy
For reading this week, we have been focusing on developing our summarising skills. We have been using the hand model to help us develop our skills. We have to write or say key details of the story in about 5 sentences. The hand model gives us 5 questions to answer during a summary.
Numeracy
This week, we were focusing on multiplication word problems. We had to use our critical thinking skills to help us understand what the question was asking. Additionally, we have been discussing different strategies to solve multiplication equations during Number Talks.
IDL
It was World Earth Day on the 22nd of April. We were learning about the things that we can do to help protect planet Earth. Then, we had to pick at least five things we that we would to contribute to preserving the planet.
We have been learning to calculate change up £20.00 DN
We’ve been learning to measure items using millimetre, centimetre, metre and kilometre.
We started our Reciprocal reading roles and we have been reading aloud with expression.
For HWB, we learnt that babies get some characteristics from their parents and sometimes there are characteristics that are unique to them.
We learnt to change a singular words to plural form by adding ies.
Monday:
Holiday
Tuesday:
In language today we wrote letters about our activities over the Easter holidays.
For maths we continued to look at time and did an assessment on it.
Coding with Mrs B was great fun, as always.
We started looking at China, which will be our topic this term.
Wednesday:
With Mrs D today the class did small jobs related to out door learning, such as cleaning out the big container
Maths: work on times tables including loop games, table mountain and other games.
Language today was a listening comprehension on China.
We also continued our research on China.
As part of our health activities the class continued their research into possible future jobs and career paths.
For technology today we used big building bricks in small groups to make bridges.
Thursday:
Maths: we looked at data and ways of representing that at in charts and made our own charts
Language today was a reading comprehension on the recent winter Olympics in China.
As part of our health program Mark worked with the class on mental health.
Friday:
Maths: started working on money.
PE: chose P.E. activities for the term: rugby and athletics. Also identified appropriate warm up activities and timetabling. Tried some of the activities.
Literacy
We continued reading our group reading novels.
Maths
This week was ‘Data Handling’ focus week. We revised the different types of tables and graphs and then answered questions in order to show our understanding of them.
Health
Mental Health
As a warm-up we used our teamwork and communication skills to pass the hoop around the circle without breaking the chain.
We discussed what makes us feel stressed and strategies for dealing with this. Then we wrote these different strategies on the faces of a cube. We can roll this cube whenever we are stressed and the strategy can help us.
Headstrong
We had a visit from Mark and drew a picture to represent the positive and negative elements of our mental health.
Jaxson – I liked the drawing – it was fun.
P.E.
We practised our throwing, catching and hitting skills using tennis balls and racquets on the field. We greatly improved our skills during this lesson. CI, PJ and K were particularly good.
We also practised our gymnastic skills in the hall using the apparatus.
As a warm up we worked with a partner and played the mirror game. Our partner performed a balance, shape or jump and we had to show the mirror image.
Leo volunteered to show the whole class his run onto the springboard and then his jump off it!
Kyle performs a star jump.
Lily-Elen performs an arabesque balance.
Coding
This week we practised writing code with a loop, variable and repeat function.
Anton – In my game there are planes and hot air balloons flying everywhere. There is a spider hanging onto the hot air balloon and after 5 seconds it falls off. After 10 seconds the spider shows again and everything is back in the same place – this is the loop.
Oscar – My game is underwater and the fishes move around in different directions in a loop.
Science
Our new topic in science is life cycles. First we did some revision – learning about how animals are classified into groups.
Bailey – I liked learning about animals with backbones.
Kyle – These are called vertebrates.
Anton – I liked researching invertebrates. I learnt about unusual creatures.
K – I learnt about the naked mole rat – it has no hair.
Hope – It looks like a staffy with no hair!
We worked with Mark from Headstrong on positive and negative posters. These were all our own ideas, personal to us. We haven’t quite finished yet but they are looking good……….
