We’ve had a very busy week in Primary 5/6!
We enjoyed the last of the sunny weather during PE running 400m races and playing Rounders on the field. Both teams played excellently, but unfortunately Mr McCurdy forgot to keep the scores!
Our focus in Maths this week was solving word based problems, and we used our practice with these to create our own maths board games – there were a lot of interesting themes, such as pizza, Minecraft and football! We also had a Health and Wellbeing themed Maths lesson with our visiting teacher Miss McDonald during which we learned how to add up the calories in the foods we eat in order to help us to make healthier choices with our diet.
The Health and Wellbeing theme continued during a Science on Monday with Miss McDonald, as we found out how much exercise we need and how exercise can help our hearts. We used this information to create a weekly exercise plan for another person in the class to make sure we are all keeping fit and active!
In Literacy this week, we learned about similes and metaphors. We used this song to help us to remember the difference between them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU . Once we knew how to use these to help our writing, we worked on character descriptions. We watched a short film about the characters Rock, Paper and Scissors, and thought of some excellent adjectives to describe their appearances and personalities. We then wrote a paragraph about our favourite character using our adjectives and imagery. Here is the link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GymppwZ7lU4 .
To end our week, Mrs Purdie held an assembly about staying safe in and out of school. Mrs Purdie also announced our new House Captains for next year, and we were all very pleased to hear that Kaden had been voted joint Vice Captain for Galloway house! Well done, Kaden!
By Paris, Jessica, Broady & Jack
