Category: Primary 5

Drama

This week we listened to the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and then in small groups acted out the story.

                                                We used props to represent the baby Jesus and practised using our voice, facial expression and body language to represent how the different characters were feeling.

                                                Can you guess who was the sheep in this scene, who was the angel and who was the proud father?

Going Digital

As well as acting out the Christmas story we completed a scene of the Nativity using stop frame animation. We did this with Mrs Buntin.

Alexis – I enjoyed this.

Colin – We learnt how to move the figures a little bit each time.

Jaxson – Then we took 50 million photographs.

Anna – Then you put the photographs together to make a video and narrators record a message over it.

Christmas Lunch

One highlight of the week this week was the Christmas lunch.

Bella- My favourite part of lunch was macaroni cheese and ice-cream!

Jaxson – It was nice to see Joy.

Sophie S – I liked the Christmas music at lunch.

Numeracy

This week we practised formal methods of subtraction using columns.

Lily-Elen – I am more confident at subtraction.

Health

This week we kept running for 5 minutes during P.E.

Piotr – I enjoyed the 5 minute run!

Jaxson – I was proud of everyone for running for 5 minutes.

Hope – I enjoyed football and am more confident at tackling.

Art / Music

Bailey – I enjoyed looking closely at paintings.

This was part of our work with ‘Limelight Music.’ We then went on to listen to a piece of music and draw a picture depending on how we felt about the music. Everyone interpreted the music in a different way.

Topic – Europe

Cameron – I enjoyed playing the online games.

Sara – I didn’t know Russia was so big.

Anna – I learnt that in Lithuania they make beads out of tree sap when it is hard.

 

P5 have had a fun week this week.

Christmas Card Competition

Mrs Stewart set the class a task of designing a Christmas card. Miss Stanway had a difficult job of picking a winning one because the standard was so high! This card will be sent out to a community group.

Summer – My card was a Christmas tree with a snowy window!

Health

Bella – Football is fun.

We love seeing Bella buzzing around enthusiastically like a rocket on the football pitch in her bobble hat although Oscar being successfully tackled by a large plant pot this week was a sight to behold!

Topic – Europe

This week we learnt about the Seville Fair that usually happens every year in Spain.

Colin – we designed a persuasive poster to encourage people to go to the fair.

Our success criteria for designing a good poster included detailed pictures of an appropriate size, colourful font and a persuasive slogan. Cameron knew it was important to make sure important information such as when and where it took place was included.

We listened to some flamenco music and many of the children were keen to have a go at being flamenco dancers.

Bailey enjoyed being a bull and Leo volunteered to be a matador with a swirling cape. This led to an interesting conversation about animal cruelty.

Music

We started our music sessions with ‘Limelight’ and have been practising using our body as a percussion instrument!

Numeracy

This week we have learnt different strategies for mental subtraction such as counting up to and we have used number lines to support our thinking.

Look out for our numeracy video coming soon!

Literacy

After reading this week, we practised writing a summary of what we have read. It is important to only include key information and make sure the facts are in the correct order. As we found this tricky, we agreed that it is a skill we need to practise.

Look out for our spelling strategy video coming out soon!

Compliment box

Jaxson was chosen this week and the class had several compliments to give him because he is so supportive and kind.

Homework

Some people brought in homework to share with the class, which was a very high standard. Well done everybody!

Literacy

Book Week

This week it was Book Week Scotland so we had a ‘blether’ about what are favourite books were.

Lily-Elen – I like Jaqueline Wilson.

Writing

We wrote some terrific stories this week using the main character in our reading book. Colin and his partner wrote a great opener that we agreed would make us want to read on.

Reading

This week we practised our visualisation skills and drew scenes from stories in our reading books.

Numeracy

This week we practised adding multiples of 10 and discussed different strategies.

Maths

This week we walked around the school on a shape hunt and discussed why certain shapes such as cuboids were used to make things.

Art

As part of our work on shape we used clay to sculpt imaginary creatures using tools to create various effects.  Alexis – I made a Unibug.          Sophie P – I made a dog that had a turtle shell and a unicorn.

Health

During P.E. we have been practising running without stopping for four minutes. We are much fitter now!

We have also discussed what makes us happy. Most of us said it was our family and surprisingly when given a list of different things most of us said tablets/IPads are the least important when it comes to happiness. We learnt about how some children living in different circumstances would be happier if they were able to go to school more and have larger houses with running water.

Remembrance Day

This week we celebrated Remembrance Day or  Poppy Day . We had a two minute silence on Wednesday to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. We also watched a video by Rev. Nelu who talked about what it meant.

This Weeks Learning

Literacy

On Monday we continued to read our novels in group reading in order to improve our fluency and decoding skills. We practised answering questions about the text with our reading partner on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday we discussed our novels in detail in order to practise our talking and listening skills while being encouraged to back up our ideas with evidence from the text. Finally, on Thursday we wrote a persuasive piece connected to the novel.

Numeracy

Hope – We learnt how to add several numbers using different strategies.

Anna – We can look for numbers that make 10.

M – Then we can look for numbers that make 11 and 9.

Then if we add these together it makes a multiple of 10.

Debbie – It was tricky at first!

We did find it difficult. However, practise makes perfect so we had another go and we feel more confident now.

Maths – Shape

We continued to practise discussing the properties of 3d shapes and this week using pipe cleaners, to represent the edges of a shape, built our own 3d shapes.

Science – Micro-organisms

Bailey – I learnt that some microbes are harmful but some can be helpful. There are three types – bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Jaxson – I enjoyed designing my microbes poster showing how they can help us.

Health

We learnt about the difference between direct and indirect bullying and continued to discuss ways of dealing with conflict.

 

Literacy
Writing
We continued to develop our persuasive writing techniques.
In addition we practised using various openers to create interesting sentences.
Reading
In group reading we read our texts, discussed them and practised using different techniques to work out the meaning of unknown words in order to improve our vocabulary.
We also discussed what made a good story and then with our partner wrote down what we thought would happen next in our novels. Some of us wrote great beginnings that would make the reader want to read on. Some of us applied what we had learnt about openers earlier in the week and used them in our stories. Also some of used some descriptive adjectives and powerful verbs!
Bailey – I am enjoying the class novel.
Spelling
Sophie Smith – I am proud of my spelling.
Numeracy
We all feel we have improved our addition skills.
Hope – I learnt strategies to help solve problems.
Topic
We practised using the art of collage to decorate flags of various European countries.
Bailey – I enjoyed making the flags. I learnt that each country has a different flag.
Health
This week we learnt that spreading rumours and name-calling is unacceptable and we discussed different strategies that we could use to deal with this.
Grace – I also enjoyed completing my racism ribbon from last week.
Art
This was linked into our learning about shape and we drew worlds where everything was made up of geometric shapes.

Numeracy

This week we continued to improve our addition skills.

We feel we have improved our ability to double a number but adding near doubles was trickier!

Maths

We revised 2D shape and learnt about the properties of 3D shapes.

Literacy

In group reading we used inference skills to answer questions about the texts. We discussed in detail how we felt about the books with our partners. On Thursday we pretended to be one of the characters from the stories and wrote a letter to another character in the book.

Spelling

Hope – I enjoyed clapping out syllables when spelling and writing sentences for each word.

Grace – I enjoyed putting the spelling words into alphabetical order.

Christmas comes early!

Colin – I enjoyed designing a Christmas Card and spreading some Christmas joy!

Drama

I enjoyed the number game!

Health

We continued our ‘Celebrating Difference’ theme and learnt about how people are discriminated against because of the colour of their skin. Then we went on to design ribbons to raise awareness of racism and to help stop it.

Although it has been a short week we have still been busy learning about lots of things!

Literacy

We practised joining up our handwriting and learnt about how to punctuate direct speech.

Numeracy

We continued to practise adding and this week used the compensation strategy.

Art

We started a new topic – shape – and learnt how to use shape when writing different words.

Topic – Europe

Bailey – I enjoyed acting out the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a story from Germany.

Grace – I enjoyed the capital cities quiz.

Extra Play

Before we broke up for the holidays our class earnt the most pegs so we had 10minutes extra play this week!