Category: Primary 5

Music

This week we made music using Boomwhackers. The different sizes represent different pitches. We tapped them on the ground and made a tune using different notes. It was great fun!

P.E.

We continued learning about rugby and developed our tackling skills this week.

Science

We learnt about the skeletal system.

Monika – I enjoyed labelling a skeleton. Some of us even challenged ourselves to use the medical names of the bones.

Lacey – I was surprised about how many bones there were in my hand! I thought there was only one!

Keris – I learnt that each forearm has 2 bones!

Georgie – I was surprised to learn how easily a dinosaur’s bones could break.

Mason – I couldn’t believe that giraffes have the same number of bones as humans!

Numeracy

We have been practising our mental strategies in Number Talks and we are now concentrating on our subtraction skills.

Maths

We are much more familiar with the concept of time and this week used timelines to help add and subtract time.

Our next steps will be to answer questions about timetables.

Literacy

We used various strategies to work out the meaning of unknown words in group reading.

When writing we practised creating a text from the perspective of a character in our group novel. In pairs we wrote what wish that character would like to receive and how it would effect their life.

Participation Friday

We are planning to hold a party for the residents at nearby Restondene.

We all have different responsibilities and are undertaking different tasks in preparation for the event.

 

Lewis wrote a formal letter to Mrs Wood asking her to help us prepare some food.

After School Clubs

Bella – I enjoyed Taekwondo; learning about the scissor kick was fun.

A Gentle Reminder !

Some children have still not returned the first reading books they were given at the start of P5. When they are finished and have been returned a new book can be given.

Learning Breakfast

Breakfast

• Keris –We enjoyed the breakfast.
• Bella – The croissants and pancakes were really good.

Activities

There were various activities. Through playing online games we learnt about internet safety and European facts. We acted out the digestive process, which is something we have learnt about in science. Games included matching the capital cities to their European countries and a flag quiz. Lewis and his mum were very engrossed in a jigsaw that was a map of Europe! Our craft activity was creating map collages.

• Lacey – Making the European Flag Collages was fun!
• Lewis – I enjoyed watching my 3-year-old brother do a flag collage even though he used the wrong colours!

The digestive system experiment was popular.

• Mohamad – My mum thought it was funny!
• Liam – My mum’s favourite part was squeezing the poo out of the intestines!

School Birthday Celebrations

Thank you to all the visitors who helped us to celebrate Dean’s 50th birthday.

Each class concentrated on a different decade and ours was the 1970s.

Activities

We played games that had been invented in the 1970s – including practising on a space-hopper. In the style of Andy Warhol we created Pop Art pictures, organised significant dates on a timeline and some of us even wore 1970s dress!

• Bella – My mum enjoyed the Pop Art.
• Emma – The Spirograph that Bella let us use was great fun!
• Mason – The Pop Art was really cool!
• Georgie – The Space Hopper was fun!
• Monika – I enjoyed the 1970s dancing.
• Lewis – I enjoyed dressing up as a mini Miss Stanway (we both had a similar costume.)
• Bella – Miss Stanway was a skilled roller skater!
• Emma- I liked drawing the roller skates.

Afterwards we all enjoyed our slushi or ice-cream!

 

Literacy

• Reading

We have started our new group reading books and have been learning to read with fluency using various strategies to read unknown words.

Although it was tricky we practised using our inference skills to demonstrate understanding of what we had read.

• Writing

Bella – I enjoyed writing a diary about the main character in my reading book and practising my chatty style.

In spelling we have been investigating the different ways to spell the phoneme/sound ‘j’.

Maths

We continued to consolidate our learning about time. Our time-telling skills are improving.

Lewis – I enjoyed learning about am and pm.

P.E.

Georgie – Rugby was tricky bit I improved my passing skills.

Keris – I got better at catching the ball.

Choir

Keris – I enjoyed the warm up – we had to spell Christmas!

HALLOWEEN!

We had a great time at the school disco.

Lacey – It was fun and we all got to dance.

Homework

Bella, Keris, Georgie, Eva, Shantelle, Mason and Lewis Duckworth shared some of their homework this month. We enjoyed looking at it.

It would be great to see some more homework completed by more members of the class next month.

School Birthday Celebrations

Keris – I enjoyed researching the 1970s on the laptop. The fashion was long dresses and mini skirts.

Next Week

• Our learning breakfast is on Thursday morning. We are looking forward to sharing various activities. with you!
• We also hope to see you at Friday’s School Birthday Celebrations.

We have enjoyed our holidays but made a busy start to the new term this week!

Maths

Eva – Our new topic is time.

Lewis – We found it tricky at first.

Bella – We have been revising how to tell time using quarter to and past.

Nakeal – I know how to tell the time using quarters much better now.

We have also practised how to tell the time in 5 minute intervals. Next we will work on telling the time to the nearest minute, using am and pm, calendars and the 24 hour clock.

Literacy

We have written some fantastic descriptive pieces using our different senses.

Georgie – I enjoyed writing about my favourite place.

Nicholas – We practised describing in detail.

Music

On Thursdays we have a fantastic music workshop called ‘Move to the Beat’ which the children have been enjoying immensely.

Maia – I like dancing to the music.

Lacey – I like the diddly dum game!

Topic

Our topic is Europe and this week we have continued to work on our Power Points and posters about a chosen European country with a friend.

Art

Liam – I enjoyed the surrealist artwork.

We looked at various pieces of Surrealist artwork including some from Rene Magritte, a Belgian surrealist painter. Then we created our own surrealist work.

Please Note

Next week the children can bring in the homework they have done this month to share with the class.

The children can change the two reading books they have been given when they have finished them.

P.E. is on a Monday and Wednesday – ideally the children should have suitable P.E. kit to change into.

We would also like to invite you to our Learning Breakfast on 7th November (more details to follow next week.)

We have been preparing some 1970s activities to share with you during our 50th birthday celebrations on 8th November. The children will be sharing what they have learnt and seem to be particularly excited about the 70s style dancing they have been practising! They are looking forward to teaching visitors some GROOVY MOVES!