Author: Mrs Tulloch

This week we have been investigating hydro power in science. We made a water wheel turn and it generated enough power to light an Led bulb. We are using a solar panel after the holidays and looking at how Scotland is meeting its targets for renewable energy.

Primary 6 were finding out about polio as they are going to be running Rotakids and will be organising a dress down day fpr purple4polio.

Primary 5 have been working in their groups for their social enterprise work. They have been deciding on the causes and events they want to carry out.

We completed our 3d shape work and will be looking at 2d shape next term.

 

We painted pictures of animals that live in and around the Ama                                                          

by Daniel and Finlay

 

 

 

 

In science we were learning about different types of energy and now we are going to  find out about how electricity is made. We are learning about rebewable and non renewable sources. Find out more next week!

 

In maths we were rounding  to the nearest tens and hundreds and  we were estimating  in maths . For number talks we were estimating from guesses how many prisms were in a glass.

 

iN 3d shape we were investigating nets for cube. Our challenge was to find as many different nets as possible. We found 10!

In literacy we were doing comprehension and going back into Roald Dahl’s child hood.  We were also doing an information slip on the Amazon River .

In music we were doing Saturday night song with Ms Bain. This week we were adding lots of different musical instruments for the song. We recorded it for the class .

In PE Mrs Mc Vay tired  us out when we played “exhaustion.

Have a good weekend .

BY ALISTAIR AND ROBBIE.

Welcome to Primary 5/6 blog

For grammar we did adverbs and verbs . We watched a video clip of Aladdin and had to make our own sentences up with exciting adverbs.

For comprehension we played Blankety  Blank  and a worksheet with missing words .

In maths we did proprties of a 3d shape and we did guess the number .  One group were looking at real life examples of where we use shape. Next week we are making nets. We played multiplication wars with packs of cards.

For our novel  “Wonder”,  we drew pictures of ourselves  and wrote 41 acts of kindness. We did beautiful paintings as well.

In science we did the cotton reel challenge . We had to make it move using as many different energy transfers as possible. Some people did 9.

At music with Ms Bain, we played a river song with different notes . Mrs Tulloch said it sounded great.

Spanish -we did conversations. Gracias.

 

by Aimee and Rebecca

NUMERACY

We did number talks. We alSo were subtracting 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000. We also practiced/repeated facts about three and six times tables in four different ways.

TOPIC/LITERACY

We reasearched facts about the Amazon river and made notes. We made leaflets on our notes.

LANGUAGES

French we asked each other our ages and how we feel in a game.

We also practised numbers in Spanish.

Science

In science we made helicopters fly and discussed the different potential and kinetic energy changes.

 

MUSIC

For our topic we added music notes of names of rivers.

 

Written and typed by Maisie & Rose.

 

 

Numeracy : this week we have been learning about units, tens all the way up to millions. We were ordering and sequencing them.  We are going to continue with this next week. In maths we are learning about 3D shapes and their properties.  There was lots of maths vocabulary we had to learn and next week we are going to cut up the shapes to investigates their nets.

Literacy: We are still completing our signs for our class library.

We got our reading books out and the stories look good.

We started homework this for spelling, our learning grids and reading.

For writing, we completed stories about “The Waking Giant”

 

IDL: We started a river fact file with Mrs McVay and will continue to work on it next week

In science we have been disussing global warming and different types of energy. We are going to make paper helicopters next week and discuss the potential and kinetic energy changes.

By Olivia and Rose

 

What a great health week! We have been doing different taster sessions each day; tag rugby, golf, Gaelic football , handball and football. We made smoothies with different fruits and did some mindfulness as an early start. Sport’s day was a great success and well done to all our winners .

                                                                 Gaelic Football

 

Book festival listening to Elizabeth Ezra.

We really enjoyed listening to Elizabeth Ezra talk about how she became a writer and she gave us good tips about how to write imaginatively.

We have completed our class talks and what a pleasure it has been listening to our them. They have truly been entertaining and I am amazed how much I learn about the pupils and their lives outwith school. My goodness, can we ask questions!

Well done everyone.

Literacy circle is getting to the exciting stage and we are  predicting how our books are going to end. There are many imaginative ideas.

We are continuing with our Big Writing Adventure as superheroes. We have written our hero descriptions and 3 diary entries about what they have got up to.  A local newspaper now want us to write up an article for the next edition.

Our class novel is Ruby McCraken, Tragic without Magic by Elizabeth Ezra. We will be meeting the author 12th June at the Rugby Club and so far we are enjoying the early chapters.

In maths, we are starting to look at information handling and how to ask questions about the data we collect. Next week we will construct graphs and interpret them.

In science we have begun sound as a form of energy. We had a very lively carousel session investigating musical instruments, voice and tuning forks.

Next week we will look at pitch and vibrations.

Please ask your child how they made water jump!

We submitted our posters to Transition Linlithgow,  “we support  Linlithgow’s last straw” campaign. The were really detailed and gave  a powerful message.

I would like to say a big thank you to all our pupils for their hard work on Wednesday when we had a follow up visit from our visitors who came in  January . They were so delighted with how well we are all doing. We even got 22 pegs this week, amazing!

Let’s hope this great weather continues. Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Tulloch