We have had a very busy two weeks in P5B, although we have had a few days off in between, we have really learnt a lot.
We have been really active over the last two weeks, learning new sports and keeping up our strength and fitness through some circuit training during PE. We have been very fortunate to have Mr Newton come along and teach us the amazing sport of Quidditch! Yes can you believe that the famous Harry Potter sport is an actual sport played here in the UK! We have started to learn the basic skills needed to play and over the next few weeks we will be getting our ‘broom sticks’ too! Who said playing a sport couldn’t be magical? We have now started our 8 week block of Futsal, we are really enjoying learning new ball skills.
We have finished up with division, by playing a division game with a partner called ‘remainder wanted’ this was a game that involved working out the division sum and the remainder was our score, the person with the highest remainder wins. This game really helped us to improve our division calculations mentally as well as practicing using the formal written method. We have started to learn about fractions, we took our learning outside and drew various shapes on the playground using chalk, we needed to listen to Mrs. Matos, as she would call out the fraction amount that needed to be shaded, we all worked well together in groups. The highlight of the week was an activity called scrumptiously simplified fractions, can you get what we used to complete this activity? Skittles! Who knew learning fractions could be so sweet. We worked in groups, sorting out the skittles in colours, we had to work out the fraction of each colour in the bag, then we learnt how to work out and write simplified fractions.
Spelling this week we learnt the rules and exceptions of words spelt with ei or ie, we learnt the saying, ‘ i comes before e, except after c and except when the words sounds like a’, this really helped us with our spelling words. In literacy we learnt about the elements of a story, we discussed how we can make our stories more interesting, engaging, exciting and how to leave our readers with something to think about. We started planning our own creative story, remembering to included all the elements. Together with our partner we have started to edit our writing, making sure to look out for spelling, capital letters, punctuation and wow words.We are going to use our editing to help us to improve on our story.
Over the last two weeks we have been focusing on internet safety, we have had a lot of discussions on privacy settings and what to and what not to share online. We are designing internet safety posters to be displayed in our classroom to help reminds us of the importance to be safe online.
We have a lot to look forward to next week. Next week we start bikeability, and we also have to look forward to our canal trip on Thursday. Could Primary 5 get any better?
