This week in Primary 5 we enjoyed thinking about our favourite books, designing book bags with our favourite book covers or characters, reading stories to P3 and P5 and swapping books we read for new exciting books. We can’t wait to read them.
We also found out about Fairtrade and wrote a Fairtrade Fact File! In Art we created a Fairtrade picture using blending chalk techniques. In Maths we completed our block on integers, we are glad the temperature is starting to get above Zero now. We had sunshine every day this week!
We had a fab Welly Walk this morning around the loch. We walked fast to raise our heartbeat and we raised lots of money for school funds.
This week P5 have been working hard on improving our Digital kills. We found out how to use Word Publisher and then used the application with great success to produce amazing reports on Arctic animals! In Maths we found out how to add and subtract negative numbers. We also found out that the coldest temperature on earth is Antarctica where the temperature has been measure at -133.6 degrees Celsius! On Monday the weather was horrible so we developed our Hockey skills inside. Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday so we ate lots of pancakes. Delicious! We also led a lovely service for the school on Ash Wednesday. We completed our Arctic animal 3D posters and on Thursday we created Fair Trade Art silhouettes. A very busy week in P5!
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This week in P5 we completed our topic – Who Would be King- and started our new topic ‘Frozen Planet’.
In Art we completed our Declarations of Arbroath and our spiders. We shared some of our amazing Solo talks on Margaret Maid of Norway, Robert the Bruce, Alexander 111, John Balliol and William Wallace. We used our digital skills like SWAY and Kahoot to make our presentations more exciting.
We read some of the ‘Ice Trap’ story about the Polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton and we started to write our own story explorer story using high level connectives. We found out where the Arctic and Antarctic are and how to find a place use the lines of Longitude and Latitude.
This week in Primary 5 we have being learning lots of Scots words like braw and cannie, muckle, fantoosh, crabbit honkin, dreich, slither and wheesht! We enjoyed lairnin’ scots, and writing our aen poems. We liked singing scottish songs like ‘Scots Wha Hae’ and ‘Wee Jeannie McColl’ at our ‘Burns’ Assembly’ on Friday. We also presented some amazing class talks with super props like a model of the ‘Battle of Stirling Bridge’ , Robert the Bruce’s skull and his diary stolen from his grave! We enjoyed meeting other P5s at the Handball festival. We scored lots of goals!
We’ve had a busy week.. In Literacy we found out about the features of Myths, Fables and Legends. We read the Legend of ‘Robert the Bruce and the Spider’ … ‘If at first you don’t succeed try,try, try again. Then we wrote our own legends. In Topic we finished our shields and started to create our spears. I Art we found out how to blend chalks to create a picture of Robert the Bruce. In Maths we started to investigate Fractions. We completed our Sway presentations and created ‘Comics’ using Comic Life about the Scottish Wars of Independence!
This week in P5 we focused on finishing off our ‘Who Would be King?’ topic. We found out about Robert The Bruce and we created our own Scottish battle shields. In Maths we investigated long division with remainders and we looked at area. In ICT we looked at SWAY presentations and created our own SWAYs. We had fun stacking pictures and inserting videos!
It’s CHRISTMAS! This week we went to the Panto! “Oh Yes We Did!” We had great fun at Cinderella. We took part in “The Nativity” at the church on Tuesday night and then again at school on Wednesday afternoon. It was brilliant! We are very proud of our Primary 1 stars and our amazing Primary 2 Narrators. On Thursday we had Christmas lunch and we sang Christmas songs. Finally on Friday we had our Christmas Fayre, we developed our Enterprise skills by painting Christmas baubles to sell at a profit! We also ran the Tombola, we made £165 altogether on the P5 stall, thanks to all your kind donations.
This week in Primary 5 we have really started getting ready for Christmas:
We put up our Christmas tree
We created our own nativity scenes.
We practised our Christmas concert ‘The Nativity’
We created ‘Christmas around the World’ flags, paper chains and baubles and we looked at Christmas customs around the world for our Christmas tree at St. Michael’s Kirk.
We took part in ‘Unwrapping Christmas’ stories and activities at the Kirk.
This week in Primary 5 – we completed our arguments about why we thought John Balliol should not be king! We found out that a one -sided argument is called an Exposition. We looked at pictures of English soldiers in the time of the Scottish Wars of Independence and created our own soldier. We completed mixed maths challenges on our Daily Rigour calendar and started to investigate division problems. We found out about St. Andrew and prepared for our St. Andrew’s mass which was fantastic. We filmed out own Weather Forecast videos in French. Eric showed us his super “Best Effort in Rugby” trophy. Finally practised for our nativity concert!
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