A short but busy week in P4/5 this week. This week we celebrated Catholic Education week. We enjoyed a very interesting assembly with Father Kenneth who shared lots of pictures and exciting information about his trip to Israel. We discussed what it meant for us to be part of a Catholic school and community.
In writing this week, we wrote a new paper report about the 40th celebrations in St Ninian’s. We looked at all of the lovely facebook and twitter posts about our celebrations to add quotes into our reports.
In maths we have been continuing to learn all about division. We have been exploring different strategies that we can use to help is e.g. grouping in arrays, repeated addion/subtraction and inverse calculations. It is very important for us to keep learning our times tables to help with division.
Mrs Dunse has been working with us in Health and Wellbeing this week. We looked at lots of different foods and drinks to see how much sugar is in them. We weighed out the sugar using scales so we could visualise how much sugar was in these products. We could not believe how much sugar was in a jar of dolmio sauce. We understand that sugar not only makes foods and drinks sweet but is also used as a preservative.
We were learning about viking raids this week and talked about the weapons the vikings used. We are currently in the process of making weapons in class. We look forward to sharing the final products with you next week.
We have also been working hard this week learning all about fairtrade to share with our cluster schools next week at the cluster assembly. We watched a video all abouta young boy called Patrick from Ghana who works on his uncles cocoa farm. It is very sad that so many farmers from third world countries work so very hard yet earn very little. It has made us think about the chocolate that we buy from the shops.
We hope you have a great weekend.
Mrs W and P4/5
