Tuesdays with Mrs Hogg
We have been very busy on our Tuesdays with Mrs Hogg with literacy, numeracy, physical education and French. We are looking forward to next Tuesday at the book festival and have been enthusiastic about the book ‘Ruby McCracken: Tragic without Magic’.
Numeracy and Maths
Our focus in Maths has been measure and we have been working on volume of liquids which involved estimations, converting units of measurement, fractions of different volumes and some fun experiments. We have also worked on measure in millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. We have considered units of measurement, measuring tools and we have converted fractions and decimals of various measurements. This week we were fortunate enough with the weather to measure in the playground using chalk, timers, metre sticks and trundle wheels. We marked out areas of different measurements then calculated the speed in which we could run round these. After this we estimated how long it would take to run various longer distances.
Literacy
We have been exploring the use of Oxford Big Writing Adventures; we have been studying aspects of grammar and writing techniques including alliteration, ambitious vocabulary, similes and metaphors. We created a bank of expanded noun phrases which we then used in our Superhero themed diary writing. This week we explored and compared the features of newspaper, magazine and comic articles. We look forward to finding out more so we are prepared to write our own.
In reading we are enjoying the class novel ‘Ruby McCracken: Tragic without Magic’. We are taking it in turns to read aloud to peers. We have been using our summarising skills to give recounts on each chapter. The book festival is next Tuesday, which is expected to be an interesting trip for us.
French
We learned conversational French and held introductory conversations with peers. It has been interesting to find out more about numbers, colours, months and days of the week in French. We are encouraged to practise our conversational French regularly in, around and out of the classroom.
Physical Education
In P.E we have focussed on fitness activities and stations. We even had a turn of designing and delivering our own short fitness lessons, this included a warm up, stretch, main activity and cool down.
Celebrating Success
We are very lucky to have such talented pupils in P5B; pupils regularly tell us about/bring in their achievements from out of school whether that is sewing designs, dance shows, arts and crafts, brownie badges, trophies or medals. Well done to Sam, Katie C, Isla and Cameron for your fantastic Triathlon achievement, and to Tyler for his football success. Good luck to Katie, Katie and Una in their upcoming dance show this weekend. I’d like to say a huge well done to everyone in primary five, what a skilled bunch!
Kind wishes,
Mrs Hogg
