Welcome back after a lovely Easter break. We are all well rested and ready to go on some new adventures this term.
We didn’t waste anytime burning off all the lovely Easter Eggs we managed to eat over the Easter weekend. We joined up with P5A for a joint circuit training during PE. It was great fun joining our friends in P5A, and we are all a little competitive at times. Our circuit training involved, hurdles, hula hoops, balancing, skipping, catching and a bit of tennis. Each activity is helping us to keep fit and build strength in all our major muscles.
We were all excited to get back after our Easter holidays and share with each other all the fun things we managed to do over the two week break. During literacy we planned and wrote about our favourite memories/time over the Easter holiday. When writing we needed to remember all the important grammar rules. Once we were finished we got to read a partners Easter holiday story. We used different colour pencils for editing. We learning that editing is an important skill in writing, as we are learning to identify any error as well as using our editing to work on our next steps.
No time was wasted in numeracy. We continued with division this week. We have started to learn the formal written method in division. We started with dividing 2 digit numbers, as we got more confident we started dividing 3 digit numbers. We learnt how to complete division using the formal method with a remainder. We have realised how important it is to know our times tables. Mrs Matos is encouraging us to practise our times tables at home as much as we can, because if we know our times tables, division will be simple. Next week we will be dividing bigger numbers.
As the weather is getting better, we are getting to enjoy some outdoor learning. We worked together with P5A to go on a Spring treasure hunt around the school. We had to look out for the different types of leaves and twigs that we could find around the school, we also had to keep our eyes open for anything that showed the signs of spring. As we went on our Spring hunt we collected all the things we could identify with Spring. We worked in groups to create an informative Spring poster, which we then presented to the class. Mrs Matos and Mrs McCartney were very impressed with how well we worked together.
We have a lot to look forward to next week. On Monday we have our family learning event, numeracy will be the focus, please come along and see what we have been learning. We also have Mr Woodhouse coming to talk to Primary 5 about his Africa experience, and lastly we will be starting our block of Futsal. Never a dull moment in Primary 5.
P5B and Mrs Matos
