Category: Primary 5

Monday

Language today we continued our work on Shakespeare’s Richard III. Some children took on his role in a hot seat drama activity, and we then all asked him questions. We also got new spelling words.

In maths today we continued work on sequences of number, negative number and related this to temperature.

In P.E. we practised our skills for landing on mats from jumps.

The class also split in two to continue the health work from Jigsaw.

We also spent some time practising our Chinese.

Tuesday

Literacy: Spelling as usual.

Maths: we all worked on money, one group on addition, another on division and the third on related word problems.

In health today the class split into P5s and P6s and we worked from the Jigsaw program.

We also did coding with Mrs B.

To support our learning on China this afternoon we made paper dragons.

Wednesday

The class spent their time with Mrs D working on their area and other gardening.

For maths the class continued their work on temperature.

For literacy we did spelling as usual, and related the maths work to reading comprehension.

After lunch we made the most of the good weather and went out to the TrimTrak. Some of the children from this class took the opportunity to play with the smaller children in their playground.

The live link with Chinese students to continue topic work was excellent, teaching how to write Chinese characters and how to identify the radicals that help make their meanings clearer.

At the end of the day we finished the dragons we had started on Tuesday.

Thursday

Literacy was a reading comprehension activity on the same Chinese story as the previous week, and how this created designs for willow pattern china. And spelling.

Maths was looking at planning activities and areas of study for the rest of the year.

We did an additional activity looking at the football match of the previous night and the importance of being good sports.

The health activity on “what is normal” today was lead by Mark.

For another health activity today we looked at the jobs of the people coming to the careers afternoon next month.

Friday

Maths: times tables and decimals

Literacy: spelling as usual

Went out to playground with infants.

Assembly

Friendship time

We were set a challenge to see if we had any gender bias in our career choices. Well done primary five. There was definitely no gender bias in your career choices.

This week in P5 we have continued our digital learning. Our learning intentions this week were to write a code and to use a variable. For to be successful in this we had to write a block code which included a variable, a random and a click event. We then had to post a link to our Teams page once we had achieved this.

In Spelling we had the choice of which written spelling task we wanted to do today. Here are some photos of our finished tasks:

We continue practising our fluency and phrasing when we read in our groups. It is important that we all work harder on using expression consistently.

In Writing this week, we used our notes from last week to create Information Reports on a chosen animal. We had to ensure we had sub-headings this week as well as write in the present tense.

In Numeracy we returned to our Money topic this week. We looked at rounding amounts of money and in the other we looked at change from £1 and £2. We also did some interactive games where we had to add amounts of money. We were doing this against the clock! We discussed using our knowledge of friendly numbers to help with this.

In topic we completed an end of topic assessment for our Space topic and began some research for our Dinosaurs topic!

As of next week we are going to start having all our information and learning on Twitter instead of the Blog! Please follow: @MrsHillanP5

This is just a short week for us this week with us having the Monday holiday and Thursday is an Inservice day for staff.

In Writing this week we worked on our note taking skills to create notes for our next Information report. This week we chose the theme of Animals. Mrs Hillan showed an example someone had written about a Shark and then together we took notes on Mrs Hillan’s choice of a Lion. We then went off on our own to individually take notes on a chosen animal, ready to write about this next week. We had the opportunity to use a laptop if we needed to.

In Numeracy we did our final data and data analysis work. Next week we will go back to looking at money.

In Reading, we continued our class novel. We revisited our reciprocal reading strategy of Questioning and created some open and closed questions for characters in the story.

In topic, we did our final Space presentations about the final planets in our solar system. Our class Space Encyclopedia is going to look amazing!!!

We also introduced our new topic of Dinosaurs!!!! We are excited to learn more about this!

We look forward to working on some new things next week!

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!