Category: Primary 5

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!!

We have had a fun filled week!

In Literacy we have been exploring the text, Kensuke’s Kingdom. We wrote ‘Messages in a Bottle’ and considered what important information we would need to put in our very own message if we were stranded on a desert Island. Callum visualised what Kensuke looked like and created a large version of his drawing for our wall display. We learned the importance of an effective story opener and played a game to see if we recognised familiar stories by their story openers- we were fantastic at this!

In Maths, we have been learning how to write number names for large numbers. We helped each other if we found it tricky and played lots of games on the netbooks to help us understand place value. We had good fun playing a place value game at home for homework.

We considered how we could use colour effectively to create a piece of art for Kensuke’s Kingdom with a sunset in the background, these were brilliant! Mrs McCartney thinks that we have lots of budding artists in P5A!We made large versions of the main characters in the story for our wall display- our favourite is Stella, the dog!

We designed our very own Islander that would live on our Island. We used a variety of material to do this task and had to consider gender, age, appearance and the use of similes to describe our interesting character.

Mrs McCartney was very impressed with our use of persuasive language when we delivered our Powerpoint presentations, we were certainly confident individuals!

Looking forward to our work for our ‘Pack for a Purpose’ project for Africa next week.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

P5A and Mrs McCartney x