Interdisciplinary Learning

This week we have been learning more about Kenya and how many layers of clothing you would have to wear to climb up Mount Kenya. You would also need to take suncream 8)

Art

 

Literacy

 

For writing last week we wrote Weather Forecasts for Scotland and Kenya, comparisng the weather over a 5 day period. This week we used this learning to write an imaginative story set in Kenya, that included both facts about Kenya and clues about the weather. We also set a personal target and assessed our story against this target. Some of us met our target and some have a bit more work to do.

Numeracy

In maths we have been continuing to work on adding – and the cuboids and spheres have been developing our understanding of the upstairs downstairs method. Pyramids have been focussing on mental adding and can now add on in 2, 5, 10, 9, 11, 25, 50 and 100 from single-digit numbers.

Health & Wellbeing

We are continuing to learn football skills in P.E. and even managed a game of 5 a-side. We are developing our teamwork skills and out listening skills through our P.E. lessons.

***Awards went to Shay for improved handwriting; Cameron for mental maths and Nia for participating in an important ice-skating event*** Well done and remember that awards are handed out every week!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Anderson and P5

Interdisciplinary Learning

This week we have started to learn about Kenya. We have looked at where Kenya is located, using both Google Earth and an atlas. We found out that Kenya is in Africa. We also found out a few other facts and have made a quiz for you to try at home. Click here and then type in the room number –  725865.

Art and Design

We have been thinking about our learning a few weeks ago – when we learned about straight and curved lines. This morning we used our skills in drawing straight and curved lines to draw bottles. We used both normal pencil and rainbow pencil to compare these resources. Here are a few photos of our work.

Nia, Carys, Emma C and Kaitlyn set up an art table in our class – we are very lucky to have such enterprising girls in the class. Here it is.

Miss Anderson thinks that this is a great idea but that we will have to keep it a bit tidier!

Numeracy

In maths we have been finding the difference and adding. The Pyramids have also been counting up in lots of 5 and 10, not starting from 0. This means that we have been learning new number patterns. An example is counting on in 5s from 2;

2,7,12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37…

That’s all for this week! Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Anderson and P5 8)

Despite being a short week we have been very, very busy!

Art and Design

This week in art we have designed and made our favourite meal. You probably wouldn’t want to try to eat these meals as they are made from paper. Here are a few of our tastiest looking treats!

Numeracy and Maths

This week we continued to learn more about operations (+, -, x and /). We talked about function machines. On Thursday we all completed number triangles, which was fun. You can make your own – if you want to know how leave us a comment!

Achievements

Jordan was our winner for the Commonwealth Game art competition. This means that Jordan’s picture will hang in a bedroom in the athletes village. We wonder if Usain Bolt might be the lucky athlete who gets to look at Jordan’s picture.

Miss Anderson and P5

Science/Health & Wellbeing

This week we have been learning about animal adaptation and how certain features help animals survive in their habitat. For example a polar bear has hairy paws to stop slipping on ice. They also have tiny ears to stop their eardrums from freezing. We worked in group sto create a booklet about certain animals – here are a few photos.

Literacy

As we enjoyed creating our booklets we decided to write a short report about our animal. We had to include 2 paragraphs. The first paragraph included 3 facts about the animal and the second paragraph included 3 facts about the animal’s adaptations. We then read a partner’s work and gave peer feedback.

Numeracy

This week we started a new maths topic – addition and subtraction. We have all been reminding ourselves of the number bonds to 20 by playing games. We have also been adding on lots of ten to bigger numbers using mental strategies and the empty number line strategy. We have also been able to take away lots of ten from bigger numbers. We know that we have to start at the beginning of the line for adding questions and the end of the line for subtraction questions. Next week we will continue to work on this.

Didbook

We were very excited this morning when we got to start using Didbook. Didbook is like a reflection diary but stored online (securely). We can update our Didbook diaries from home by visiting my.didbook.com and using our school email address to log in. Miss Anderson is already looking forward to reading and commenting on our entries.

That’s all from us – hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Anderson and P5 🙂

This week we have had another successful week in Primary 5! Here are a few of our highlights…

Numeracy

This week we have continued building up our maths journals – we now have 4 pages complete! We have been learning about Place Value,  and have been able to include an interactive Place Value pockets, a Place Value chart, explanations of key terms as well as digit, expanded and written versions of numbers. Now that we have all this information recorded in our journals we can always find the answer to Place Value questions (especially if we are stuck).

Literacy

As well as our normal literacy work this week, we have also worked hard to learn Scots poetry. Chloe and Sophie were the class winners who got to recite their poems for the whole school (and visitors!). Jordan and Emma C were also finalists, so well done to the four of you.

Health and Wellbeing

This week has been filled with Health and Wellbeing learning. We have been developing our handball skills in P.E. and are now all able to use a good chest pass and a good bounce pass. Accuracy with passing is improving every lesson!

We have also been learning a bit more about growing up, and what we can expect to happen when we grow up. We understand that there are some changes that we can choose to make, and others that just happen. This morning we learned about life cycles. Here are a few examples of typical life cycle lengths;

– Poppies – a few weeks

– Frogs – a few years

– Humans – as long as 100 years.

We had to learn a few key words; metamorphosis being one. Any pupil (P1-7) who can comment with a good definition of metamorphosis will win a prize from Miss Anderson’s prize box.

Next week we will continue to learn about growing up and will be focussing on our feelings.

A few of us managed to log into Glow and look at the J2E tools. These tools allow us to create animations, graphs and pieces of writing (plus much more). If you know your Glow username and password you should check them out!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Anderson & P5 8)