Author: Mrs Matos Van Den Heever

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

         

 

 

 

We all enjoyed our October holidays,  but it is good to be back. We got to share our experiences with each other this week. It was lovely to hear what everyone  had been up to. We are all now ready for Term 2,  we have had a look at  our targets that we had set in Term 1 and we have now set ourselves some new and achievable targets for Term 2 focusing on Numeracy, Literacy and one non- academic target.

In Math this week we have been continuing taking part in ‘Number Talks’ we have been doing multiplication and using strings of problems and using various strategies to help us find the answer.  We are becoming more confident in ‘Number Talks’ even when Mrs Matos gives us some challenging problems to solve.

This week we had PE with Mrs Reid, we got to play some basketball, it was plenty of fun!

The highlight of the week  for Primary 5 was the visit from Tom and Geoff, two war veterans that took the time to come and talk to all the Primary 5s about life during the war. They were very interesting and even brought along with them a war watch and some old photos. Their visit and talk will really help us  with our documentaries that we will be filming.

We have also been busy this week promoting the Shoebox Appeal to the school. Please remember that this needs to be in by the 5th November.

Some things to remember this week: Linlithgow Peel trip is on Monday and we are  filming our Remembrance documentaries on Thursday 4th November – please remember to bring anything you wish to be in your documentary.

Looking forward to another week.

P5B and Mrs Matos

 

Wow, another busy week in P5B! A week full of discussions and creativity!

P5A together with Mrs Crocker have been working on the ‘Pack for Purpose’ project.  P5A and  the dramatic silhouettes of Maasai  inspired us to take part. We created an art piece including a single warrior or a family and adding dramatic African patterns. Our art work will be going all the way to Africa!!!

It was great to have our ‘Special Person’ join us on Tuesday afternoon and help us to create the different parts of our Island. We have joined everything together and Mrs Matos is very proud of all our hard work.

 

This year the Primary 5s have taken on the shoebox appeal. The children created their own posters and went and presented  their posters and talk to the different classes.  Both Primary5 classes are very excited about this project and have put in a lot of  effort into their planning and poster making. Please can we support the Primary 5s and the project by handing in a wrapped shoebox by Friday 4th November.:

Children return Tuesday 25th October

Hope you all have a lovely holiday!

 

What a wacky start to our week. Things were just not how they should of been….socks on rulers, posters upside down, fake clock on the wall, even Mrs Matos was slightly wacky. Our day was inspired by the Dr Suess book, Wacky Wednesday. The children were encouraged to write a journal entry about their wacky day. This was linked to our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom, and how Michael kept  journal entries while sailing around the world.

The children have made fantastic silhouettes of Michael  and Stella (characters from our class novel), the children put in a lot of effort and they look amazing.

Using various materials the children created their own islander for their island.

In numeracy we have been continuing with number talks. The children have enjoyed using strings to help them solve more complex problems. We have also been concentrating on how to write and say numbers up to 100 000.

 

It has been a busy week, who knows what next week will have in store!!