Dear families of P5A,

We can’t believe it is the end of our first term in primary 5! We have had a wonderful past couple of months and have achieved so much together. This week has been another fun-filled week.

Throughout literacy, we have enjoyed solving some tricky spelling anagram challenges and created some fantastic Wordboost spelling displays for our working wall. We have also really enjoyed putting a cosy fire on the smartboard and reading our class novel (Wonder) together. We have also been working hard on our procedural writing and this week managed to produce a final edit. We uplevelled our writing by including more WOW! words, including more detail in our steps and considering an appropriate layout for the reader. We did a fantastic job and Miss Ventisei was really proud! In preparation for our next writing focus of poetry, we recapped and furthered our knowledge of alliteration. We worked in partners to create our own examples of alliteration about different animals for all letters in the alphabet. Miss Ventisei was so impressed with some of our fantastic ideas. Lili and Jacob came up with ‘ a handsome hamster hilariously healed a heartbroken hyena’ which made us all laugh a lot!

Throughout IDL we have been connecting our learning of the Scottish Wars of Independence by creating a timeline of Scottish battles. Through this, we discussed the meaning of chronology and how we can use a timeline to understand when different events occurred. We also researched some more details about the Battle of Stirling Bridge, the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Bannockburn. Finally, we completed our battle shields by adding carboard to make them 3D, see the pictures below for some of our creations!

This week we have been applying our knowledge of estimating and rounding to some real-life contexts during maths. We solved lots of tricky problem-solving challenges related to money and we particularly enjoyed using the fake bank notes! We have also discovered a new class favourite maths game- rounding bingo! We have absolutely loved playing this to practice rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. On Thursday we continued our non-number maths topic of shape with Mrs Callaghan. We were learning about nets of 3D shapes and made our own! Some nets were quite challenging to construct, however we persevered and got there in the end! Well done P5A!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner was Fahad! Congratulations! It was recognised that Fahad went over and above all week by always helping his peers to tidy the classroom without being asked, even in areas he wasn’t working near! Thank you so much for all of your kindness and help Fahad!

Our favourite moments this week were:

Emily: I liked playing the spelling game where we had to unscramble the words.

Julia: I liked playing with the construction this week.

Jacob and Leo: Our favourite part of the week was coding!

Francesca: I loved playing Sumdog today!

Lili: I loved playing lots of fun games during P.E. today!

Weronika: I liked P.E. this week.

We hope everyone has a wonderful October holiday!

Lots of love from Primary 5A xxx