Primary 5A have been very busy this week.
We have been designing our very own islands and thinking about what geographical features they have. We worked in pairs to create our own Powerpoints about our islands using persuasive language. We thought we could use persuasive language in real life contexts to help us get ‘what we would like’ at home! 🙂
We used our visualisation skills to draw and label what we thought Kensuke’s island was like in our class novel.
Next week , we are going to deliver our presentations and there is going to be a class vote to see which island we are going to make.
In Maths, we have looking at place value and strategies that can help us. We looked at clips from Khan Academy that were very helpful. When we meet a challenge, we are working together to get the answer and discussing it.
In Literacy, we are exploring the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and have been thinking about 5 items that we would take with us to a desert island and why. Lots of us came up with very creative ideas for why we were bringing this item.
How lucky were we that Lari Don visited and she read us a small part of her new book! P5-7 made up their own part of their story where the character would nearly get there and then have to try again. She left it on a cliffhanger and it was so exciting that we were inspired to go home and read!! Mrs McCartney was very pleased with us!
Our follow up activity in class was to write a short story about an object, making it as interesting and exciting as possible.
Creating our own National Identity was a lot of fun. We had to design our own flag and decide on what symbol would be on it and why. Listening to other National Anthems helped us to create our own lyrics for our own! We are really looking forward to creating our flags using a variety of materials next week.
Mrs Crocker came to visit us yesterday to tell us all about the South African ‘Pack for a Purpose’ project. Can we please thank you in advance for all your support.
Joseph Moon brought in the most amazing plaque and told us all in great detail all about the war medals that his family member had achieved, thank you!
We really hope that you have enjoyed reading our first class blog, we have certainly enjoyed writing it!
Happy weekend!!
Mrs McCartney and Primary 5A
