Continuing with our Scottish focus, we spent some time on the netbooks researching facts about Scotland. We looked up interesting places in Scotland, historical sites, traditional foods, and so much more. We made a note of the all the information we found on a Scotland snapshot worksheet.
Last week we created interactive posters which included the facts we had learnt about the life of Alexander Graham Bell, this week we had the opportunity to present our research and posters to the class. A lot of work was put into the posters, a lot of creativity and detail was shown.
In literacy this week we continued learning about the different types of figurative language. We worked together with a partner. We were given some pictures, we had to match the pictures together, decide what figurative language it would demonstrate and using the pictures we made our own sentences that would demonstrate the type of figurative language it was. We worked really well together, we communicated our ideas, listened to each other and we had to use some problem solving skills too. We put all this information onto a poster, which we later presented to the class.
In Numeracy this week we continued with subtraction, the strategy that we learnt was partitioning. During number talks we were given a string of 2 digit subtraction problems, we were encouraged to use the bridging strategy to solve the problem, we also had to think of one other strategy that we could use to help us solve the subtraction problem. We are becoming very confident with our number talk discussions. We all really enjoyed the partitioning strategy better, so far we find that this strategy can help us solve 2 and 3 digit subtraction must quicker. We wonder which strategy we will be learning this week?
This week Tuesday was our last week of Rugby at the Linlithgow Rugby club. We have learnt so much over the last three weeks, not only did we learn about rugby, but we learnt the importance of teamwork and listening. The coaches and our teachers were so impressed with our behaviour , our willingness to learn and our team playing, both Primary 5 classes were award class of the week this week at Friday’s assembly! Well done P5A and P5B.
It’s a short week this week, we wonder what Mrs Matos could have in store for us this week?
P5B and Mrs Matos
