Category: Primary 5

In P5D we have been redrafting our imaginative stories that we have been working on over the last few weeks. We are making them into our own books so used word processing to type them up and have been drawing illustrations to go with our stories.

“I liked to type up my story and then was able to print it out.” – Maliha

“I thought this was fun because I got to write it in my jotter then up-level it on the computer. I like drawing pictures and colouring them in!” – Morgan

“I enjoyed doing this because I could make my own imaginative character and make my story into a book!” – Levente

“I enjoyed it because I got to use my imagination!” – Emily

We have had lots of fun in PE because we are doing our gymnastics block at the moment so got to use the equipment. We had to do handstands, make up balances using the rope rings, we were tensing our muscles to create body tension to help with balance.

“It was really fun because we got to hang upside down!” – Zuzanna.

“In PE it was super fun because we did a lot of balances and practised doing handstands!” – Aaron

“It was really fun because we got to do a sit down balance but in the air on the rings!” – Michelle

In maths, we have been learning about time and converting times from 12hour-24hour and vice versa. We are finding this quite tricky but will keep trying. We are trying to use our classroom clock to help us!

We have been working very hard to get our show ready for our audience performances next week and can’t wait to show you all! We have had our first rehearsal without scripts and everyone managed very well.

Welcome to our Weekly blog. We have had lots of fun this week!

We were very  lucky to be invited to Dedridge PS to watch a production of ‘Pondlife’ which was all about friendship and bullying.

‘It was not what I thought it was going to be, it was better!’ – Maliha

‘It was very very very fun and I enjoyed it A LOT. I would rate it 100/100!’ – Aaron

‘It was good and I really liked it. I learned that you should always be nice to other people!’ – Morgan

We have been using our imaginations to write a story about our own made up food-animals which took place in our creative settings. We had to make sure our story had a clear beginning, middle and end and that our character was faced with a problem but also had a solution.

We have been learning some Scottish poetry with Mrs Smith. We learned ‘a dug a dug’, ‘To a moose’, ‘The snowman’, ‘Three craws sittin on a wa’ and lots more.

We have been working hard to put together our P3-P5 show which is something not to be missed.

In maths, we have been trying out a new interactive quiz game called kahoot. We all got a controller (netbook/ipad) and answered maths questions against the clock.  It was great fun and caused a healthy level of competitiveness in our classroom. We can’t wait to use it again.

Congratulations to Levente for being awarded our praise postcard this week for hard work and a great attitude towards learning. Well done!

Have a great weekend,

P5D and Miss Diamond.

This week we have been working hard in P5D!

In maths, we have been trying to solve ‘Murder Mysteries’ using all of our knowledge about different concepts including, shape, angles, compass points and co-ordinates. We have also been learning about decimal numbers and learning how to multiply and divide decimals.

In writing, we have been learning about the important features required to create a successful set of instructions. This week we had to write instructions on how to access our Glow profile on one note.

In art, we have been looking at the one point perspective again this week but from a different angle. We created pictures that looked like we were surrounded by sky scraper buildings.

We have been getting into the Christmas Spirit this week. First of all we got to watch the P1 and P2 Nativity dress rehearsal and the AM nursery nativity.

‘The nursery nativity was AMAZING.’ – Ola

‘It was really funny and cute!’ – Kasia

‘The Donkey (Kevin) was the cutest of them all when he used the microphone!’ – Zuzanna

‘The P1 and P2 Nativity was really good and I enjoyed helping the sing.’ – Michelle

‘It was really good and they all done well.’ – Sophie R

‘They were all very cute and I liked their performance!’ – Morgan

Yesterday afternoon, we had the pleasure of attending Howden Park Centre Panto, Jack and the Beanstalk 2.0. We all thoroughly enjoyed the show. It was so funny. The giant was our favourite! The experience was made even better when we got some ice-cream!

Have a great weekend,

Miss Diamond and P5D!

This week, we have been busy in P5D

We have been celebrating St. Andrew’s day and have been learning about his life.

We have been improving our digital literacy skills and learning how to use Word Processing. We had to change font colour, style and size, add a picture from the internet and then had to email our saved document to Miss Diamond.

We have enjoyed helping our school by making facecloth Reindeers to sell at the Christmas Fair. We enjoyed planning this project and learning about successful businesses when we had to think about pricing and profit. We planned adverts in writing and then work collaboratively in groups to create the posers to help advertise and sell our product.

In Maths, we have been learning about decimal numbers and how to multiply them by 10, 100 and 1000. We have had a range of activities to help us with this learning including using digital question cards and written tasks as well as physically using our bodies to make numbers.  We have been recapping on lots of our previous learning using a murder mystery investigation keeping all maths concepts fresh in our brains.

In PE, we have started our preparations for our Christmas party and have started our Scottish Country dancing block.

We had one group working with Mr Turner this week, learning all about plastic pollution and the children were having conversations about the effects of plastic pollution and they then put their ideas into posters.

Well done to Emily from our class and her team in gymnastic who came second in their level 2 group competitions.

Most of us attended the school Christmas Fair and had a great time.

“I liked taking my little cousin Chloe to meet Santa!” – Sophie R

“I liked going to the Christmas Fair because there was lots of things I liked to buy!” – Ola

“I liked taking my sister to meet Santa.” – Michelle

“I enjoyed the Christmas Fair because it was really fun. My favourite bit was designing my own Christmas mug!” – Emily

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

Welcome to our P5D weekly blog.

We have been busy this week. In writing, we used our pictures that we illustrated during our visual literacy lesson as the stimulus for our creative writing. We focussed on setting and character in this story.

In PE, we learned how to play two new games, Russian and Swedish long ball. It was really really fun because we could play two games.

We have been learning about one point perspective art and created our own pictures using the skills we learned. We also used our prior learning about tone to help create a 3D effect when we were adding colour to our pictures.

In maths, we have came to the end of our money topic and completed a little assessment. We also set up our own Pizza Parlour to help us with our understanding of money. In number talks, Zuzanna shared a new strategy with us where she used place value negative numbers! How impressive for P5!!

We have been learning about Road Safety this week and have made posters as part of the Road Safety competition that had to include a slogan.

We have been learning how to send an email using our Glow accounts and all successfully managed to email Miss Diamond.

We have been continuing with our class novel ‘Billionaire Boy’ and have been using this to learn new vocabulary through word boost.

Huge congratulations to Zuzanna this week for being awarded our praise post card! She always tried hard and tackles challenges with a growth mind-set! Keep up the good work Zuzanna.

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D J!

Welcome to our P5D weekly blog. In PE we have been trying to improve our stamina by participating in timed running activities and have been playing capture the flag with P5R!

In art, we have been learning about tone and how we can use dark, mid, light and highlight tones to create a 3D picture. We used our skills to create landscapes.

This week we have been celebrating ‘Cool to be Kind’ and anti-bullying week. We have been learning about Jessie J and Dolly Parton and how they wrote songs about a time when they were bullied at school. We had to analyse the song lyrics to work out the messages being given. We then used emotion works to explore the emotion that both of these ladies were going through.

We worked in groups to read and learn about different forms of bullying and leaned that there can be cyber, physical, verbal and emotional bullying and all are just as important as each other.

In maths, we have been trying to solve more challenging money problems that had at least 2 steps to them. We used calculators to help us.

In writing, we were being visual authors and had to create a fantasy story through drawing. Next week we will be using our drawings to then write a story.

Congratulations to Hasan this week for being awarded our praise postcard. He has demonstrated a mature attitude towards learning and has tried very hard in all tasks this week. Well done Hasan.

Have a great weekend. Miss Diamond and P5D!