2016.01.15 P5 Class Newsletter 4

A BIG THANK YOU to all the boys and girls from P5 for an amazing assembly.

I am a very proud and lucky teacher to have such a fantastic bunch. You all worked incredibly hard and it showed today.

WELL DONE!!!

Thank you to all the parents who took time out of their busy day to come and support your child.

Have a fantastic LONG weekend and we will see you all back on Wednesday.

An extremely busy week in P5 this week.

We have been working hard in consolidating our strategies when multiplying with double digits.

p5 are looking at units of measure and are exploring weight. We are working with grand and kilograms.

We enjoy celebrating success in P5.

Lara Findlay has been very busy with her horses and is now the proud owner of three more rosettes.

A big congratulations to Aarin Higgins for receiving player of the month for good sportsmanship.

Our first week back kicked of with a fantastic trip to the Kelpies in Stirling. P5 learned so much. Did you know that a Kelpie is actually a Scottish water spirit and they eat humans. The boys and girls of P5 had the opportunity to explore shape and line while sketching these magnificent structures. We even had a chance to have some fun in the park before we came back to school.

P5 have been part of the Blackburn Big Clean and lent a helping hand to creating a cleaner environment in our community.

A great big thank you to the boys and girls for all the effort you have put into your homework assignment and the mums and dads that lent a helping hand. Don’t you think they look great!

P5’s have been working on a secret mission. They have been secret spies on a secret mission of friendship. It was fantastic. We ended this with a friendship party and started making friendship bracelets.

We have worked on our scotts and have created comic strips. They are faer braw.

P5 worked on presenting information using Venn and Carroll diagrams.

We finished a series of art lesson with Mrs. Melia by using a variety of materials such as coffee, charcoal and putty rubber to create artwork on Scottish landmarks.

We all enjoyed our fantastic Masterclasses.

Today we had to say farewell to Mrs. Melia. We have all loved having her in our class and are unanimous when saying that we have learned so much from her. Thank you for all you have done for P5 and we wish you all the best for the future.

We are going to MISS you very much.

• We have been using skills taught when playing netball.
• Participated in the Voice Rocks afternoon with Rachel.
• Worked on our Charles Rennie MacIntosh designs. They are fantastic.
• Continued with our line drawings of Scottish Landmarks.
• Used SMARTIES to gather information and display them on graphs as part of data handling.

Have a lovely LONG weekend.

We were extremely lucky to have Rachel from Voice Rocks in school. She came to work with all the P5’s. We had tremendous fun working with music and especially our voices.

The P5’s discussed what they used to make sound and more importantly sing. We had great answers ranging from our voice boxes, to our stomachs and backs, our lungs and most importantly our diaphragm .

Rachel taught the children three songs and the children then sang them in a canon or also known as a round. Very tricky! The children did a fantastic job and it sounded amazing.

Flyers have been handed out and this wonderful resource is FREE!

Some photographs to show off Sam and Emma’s wonderful achievement.

A big congratulations to Lara Findlay for participating in the Woodend Riding School with her Shetland Pony Max.

She has won 1st prize in both the young handlers and condition and turnout categories.