Congratulations to our Golden Lock winners for Sustrans Scotland’s Big Pedal initiative. They were very happy with their prizes. I’m sure you’ll hear them coming when they ring their brand new bike bell.
Category Archives: Primary 5
The Lost Words
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, the Pupil Council delivered a copy of The Lost Words to each class in the school. For those unfamiliar with the book, it is a stunning spell book written by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated beautifully by artist Jackie Morris. It showcases words from our natural world which are no longer included in the Junior Oxford Dictionary due to lack of use (including acorn, conker, dandelion and otter). Before each class received the book, Primary One to Seven engaged in a ‘guess the meaning’ task and it has created quite a buzz. We have been thrilled with the response our posts have had on Twitter – including comments from both author Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris.
As we FINALLY head towards spring (fingers crossed!) our school challenge is to get out into nature and find out about the plants and creatures we have discovered in this fabulous book. Can spot any of them outdoors? Draw them? Make a fact file about them? Get together with a friend and record a news report about them?If you are looking for something to do over the holidays, why not give it a go!
Ask an adult to tweet about it using the #lostwordsSPS @simpsonprimary or comment below.
To quote the wonderful David Attenborough,
The Big Pedal 2018
Please note a change of date for The Big Pedal. It will now take place from April 23rd until 4th May 2018.
World Book Day
World Book Day t-shirts and hats may now be worn on Thursday 8th March for Nursery children and Friday 9th March for P1-P7 children, as change to the original date.
P5a Snow Day Activities
Good morning P5! Yet another snow day, please have a go at the activities in the previous post and also…
– Keep working on those numeracy skills, improving speed and accuracy by visiting the Topmarks ‘Daily 10’ website. You can choose from a range of categories. Choose the one you would like to improve on.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
– Look over divisibility rules; are the following numbers divisible by 4? 1224 2435 2312 5416 7504
– Keep working on your ideas for the Fringe poster competition; we have lost three days working on this, so make sure you come to school with a good idea of what you would like your finished piece to look like!
P5: Suggested Snow Day Activities – Friday 2nd March
Good morning, P5. Here are some activities that you might wish to try on our third Snow Day:
- Spelling: test yourself or ask someone to test you on this week’s spelling words.
- Numeracy: time yourself or ask someone to test you on the times tables that you have been practising this week.
- Reading: try to read something different to what you have been reading this week – maybe a new author or a different genre.
- Science: try the Food Chain Challenges on BBC Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z93vdxs
- Remember to log on to Study Ladder to work through your activities.
Make sure to spend some time having fun with the snow!
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Mrs Gillies – Snow day activity ideas
Hello everyone,
Here are a couple of ideas linking to what we have been doing in art and music.
ART
If any of the p1s, 2s and 3s want to follow up their Andy Goldsworthy Transient Art from last term, today’s conditions are perfect for creating snow art, either with just the snow, or with snow and greenery/stones/sticks/etc. And because it is transient a photo is what makes it last. With help, you should take photos of your art and post them in.
The older children could also be doing the same – we are looking at line as well as colour… Question, how can you create line with snow/ in snow?
MUSIC
p3/4 have been looking at sound stories for Tam O’ Haggis and we have listened to the Tam O Shanter Overture. And p2/3 last term looked at selecting appropriate music to fit with drama. Can you take a video (with help) of either your snow art OR some dramatic weather and find some appropriate music to put as the background?
Best wishes,
Mrs Gillies
P5: Suggested Snow Day Activities – Thursday 1st March
Happy World Book Day to P5!
We would love to see and hear about your activities today – you can tweet us using #SPSsnowday, or for World Book Day activities, #SPSlovestoread.
Some activities that you might choose to engage with today:
– Cosy up and read a good book!
– Share a story with a family member or friend. Remember to pay attention to punctuation and read with expression.
– Visit www.worldbookday.com and try out some of the activities there.
– Be an author and illustrator for the day and write your very own book. Choose a genre that you enjoy and remember to show, not tell!
– Continue to work on your World Book Day t-shirt or hat design – there will be another opportunity organised for you to wear these to school.
– Keep practising your times tables – identify one that you find tricky to remember and practise it in as many different ways as you can.
– Thinking back to our Science activities on Dangers to Living Things, research one of the ‘True or False’ that you were unsure about, such as:
“The centipede is a predator”
“All fish are prey to another animal”
“You can make a complete food chain using just predators”
“You can have more than one herbivore in a food chain”
– Continue to engage with your Study Ladder activities.
P5b: Suggested Snow Day Activities
Good morning! As we are unable to make it into school today, here are some ideas for activities to keep you busy. Pick a few, keep safe and cosy and have fun!
If you like, you can add pictures of your day to your story on Class Dojo, or tweet them @emmafarmer25, with the hashtag #SPSsnowday.
– Bundle up, go outside and have fun in the snow – if the snow abates for long enough, you could make a snowman, an igloo, or even a Viking longship!
– Take measurements of the snow throughout the day and record your measurements. Write down the time and the measurement as accurately as you can.
– Practise your 7, 8 and 9 times tables.
– Play a board game.
– Choose a window, pull up a seat and sketch a snowy scene.
– Get cosy and read a good book! (This is my favourite one!)
– Work on your World Book Day t-shirt or hat design.
– Explore some Viking myths and legends here:
https://www.storynory.com/category/myths/norse/
Choose one, listen carefully and write a newspaper article, poem, song, script or comic to retell it.
– Log on to Study Ladder for a variety of assigned activities across the curriculum.
– Log on to Sumdog to practise numeracy skills.
Education City Snow Day Activities
Remember all school pupils should have been issued with login details for the Education City website. Lots of fun activities and games to reinforce learning.
