Category: Primary 5

Hi,

It was lovely to see you all at Meet the Teacher this week and to share an overview of the year. If you missed this evening, you should have received an overview of some of the activities we will be covering this term.

In Primary 5 this week, we have continued to work on teamwork games in PE, discovering how difficult it can be to complete tasks when working together.

In Literacy, we have looked at comprehension, dictionary skills and completed tasks related to our home learning reading books. We created a setting for our Aliens to have an adventure in in our story writing, thinking about sights, sounds and smells around us.

Numeracy involved looking at rounding numbers. We also took a maths challenge that involved us seeing how many ways a square could be halved. This got us thinking outside the box!!

As an enterprise task, we designed our own Christmas Cards, which will be printed for you to see soon.

Music saw us creating a song and playing instruments.

In science we learned about sundials, and discovered that we have two sundials in our school grounds.

In HWB we had a class discussion around different types of bullying and how a person who is being bullied may feel.

Have a lovely holiday weekend.

Yours

Primary 5 and Mrs Kerr

 

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

 

This week we have been busy presenting our Class talks to our peers and receiving feedback. The talks have covered a wide range of subjects and have been very informative and very interesting.  We have all been learning about everyone’s fascinating hobbies and interests which have just been amazing!  It is clear that everyone has put in a lot of hard work and effort in preparing their talks and thought about the different props or equipment they could bring in to support them and engage with the audience.

In Reading we are continuing to work in our Literacy Circles and take part in the different roles to discuss our books and question each other about what we think about the story and the author.

In ICT we have been setting up our new Glow Accounts and changing our passwords so that we are able to access them. We sent test emails to one another and had a quick look at the Scratch programme that we will be using to start basic computer programming.

In Art we have entered the “Linlithgow Last Straw “competition and have been designing “eye catching” posters to promote the campaign to encourage everyone to take part.  We have also been looking at the work of Scottish Landscape artists and have completed our paintings showing some of the different features that make up the landscape of Bonnie Scotland!

To day we also took part in the “Disney Character” dress down day – the outfits and costumes were amazing!  Well done to everyone for being so creative and making it such a fun time!