Time goes by so quickly when you having fun! Already at the end of another week, and so much was done!
With a spooky start to the week, the children were hyped up and ready for Halloween on Monday, but before any trick or treating could be done we had a lovely walk to the Peel to meet the rangers. We had a fun morning, bird watching and learning about the life cycles around the loch as well as where the birds migrate to over the winter. The children had great fun working together to bird watch and play some fun games with the rangers.
In numeracy this week we looked at rounding. We discussed how we use rounding everyday to make numbers more ‘friendly’ so that they can be easier to calculate. We went on a rounding hunt around the classroom looking for numbers that round up or down to the nearest 10s. We also worked in groups to illustrate on a number line which numbers round up or down to the nearest 10.
We have been learning about war and remembrance. In literacy we learnt about the three most famous war poets. We worked on the netbooks to do some research on one of the war poets of our choice and we then created a fact file about the war poet. We enjoyed reading some of their poems, the poems gave us more insight about what it was like during the war.
We have been very lucky this week to have two guest speakers come along to talk to us. On Wednesday Esme’s dad, who was in the RAF ,came and shared his experiences with us. It was lovely to hear his stories and he was very kind to answer all our questions. On Thursday we had a war veteran from Legion Scotland come along and talk to both the Primary 5s and Primary 7s. We have been very fortunate to have this opportunity to hear all these stories from people who have had experience in the war.
The highlight of our week was creating and filming our two minute documentaries about the role that veterans have played when they served in the Royal Navy , Army or RAF. We are going to be entering our short films into the ‘Film of Remembrance’ competition, we have worked very hard on these films, so fingers crossed, and watch this space!!
So what will we do next week?
P5B and Mrs Matos
