Hello everyone!

We hope you have had a lovely week with the beautiful sunshine- P5A definitely have!

Here is a run-down of our busy week!

Literacy: We have continued to work hard on our reciprocal reading podcasts this week and Miss Ventisei is so pleased with our growth and development over the past few months! She is particularly impressed with our independence and cooperation that we display every time we meet together in our groups! We have also been working hard to complete our class newsletter SWAYs and we are excited to share our unique QR codes with our parents over the next few weeks!

Maths: On Monday we used the iPads to solve some tricky real-life 12 and 24hr time challenges. We are getting much more confident with using 24hr time and applying our learning to different contexts, well done! We have also continued to work on algebra this week. We had an ‘equation celebration’ where we all made paper chains (decorated with algebraic equations and resolutions) and covered our classroom with our hard work! We also used our measuring skills to work out who had the longest chain and the difference between the longest and shortest! On Thursday we continued our learning within information handling by creating some line graphs. We explored some data detailing the average temperatures for each month in Livingston in 2022 and created a line graph to visualise this! It was really interesting learning about how to calculate averages and attempting our first line graph- we did a fab job!

Spanish: This week we were learning about different foods in Spanish! We are currently working on creating some menus for a Spanish restaurant which we are really enjoying!

Outdoor learning: Our favourite part of the week was definitely going to the firepit on Thursday! We roasted marshmallows, drank hot chocolate and even cooked some of the vegetables we harvested ourselves! Everyone was so safe and had a fantastic time- Miss Ventisei was unbelievably proud! We also completed our final planting of the year and of course, made lots of effort to water all of our plants every single day in this hot weather! We have had so many compliments from around the school community about how beautiful our school grounds now look and we are really, really proud of our achievements!

Science: This week we have been learning about the circulatory system! After listening and feeling very carefully for our pulse and heartbeat, we watched a few clips to visualise our own circulatory system. We know that the circulatory system is made up of 3 components- the heart, blood vessels and blood. We consolidated our learning with our favourite type of recall activity- a competitive class Kahoot quiz!

R.E.: We have been learning about Prophets during R.E. this month. We furthered our understanding of what a prophet is and the types of personal qualities a Prophet might have.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week was Emily. She has been spotted being a fantastic friend and being incredibly helpful around the classroom! Congratulations Emily!

Thank you for another excellent week P5A, I am so proud of you.

Enjoy another weekend in the sunshine and see you all ready for another fun week on Monday!