Category: Primary 5

Another busy week in P5R:

As part of our Science topic this week we took part in some science experiments. We were learning about using different processes to separate mixtures of materials. This is what we did:

1. We mixed salt and water together and then we had to wait for the water to evaporate to see the salt crystals appear.
2. We mixed rice and paper clips and we used a magnet to pick up and separate the paper clips.
3. We mixed sand with water and for this we used a funnel and used a filtration process to separate the sand from the water.
4. We mixed raisins and flour and then we used a sieve to separate the raisins from the flour.

In P.E. we played tennis and we also played Jailbreak and Boil the Kettle.

For Word Boost we made up sentences using our Boost words.

We practised our new spellings.

We wrote a story about a girl called Francis who disappeared into the darkness.

We had a special assembly for  ‘Wee John the Janny’ who is retiring today and we all gave him a card with our special messages and pictures.

It was European Day of Languages this week and we took part in a quiz to see where in Europe all the different languages are spoken.

Congratulations to Sophie for being awarded the Praise Postcard this week!

Katie and Pawel

Lead Learners

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5R and Mrs Reeves

P5D weekly update!

Welcome to P5D’s weekly news! We have had a busy week learning new things and celebrating with our St.Ninian’s family.

We learned about rounding numbers to give estimated answers to calculations in maths and have been working out how to read different scales.

‘It was hard to read different scales in the beginning but I still enjoyed it.’ – Aaron

In art this week, we used line to create landscapes of a setting in our novel, Mudge Park.

‘I liked using line to add colour to my landscape.’ – Kasia

We have started our science topic about materials and have been focussing on separating materials. We received a message from a local supermarket to tell us that their products had spilled in the back of the delivery truck and were all mixed up! We had to work out the best methods to use to separate flour from raisins, salt from water, paperclips from rice and sand from water! We learned about filtration, sieving, evaporation and magnetic attraction.

‘It was really fun!’ – Emily

‘It was interesting.’ – Kasia

‘I liked the using the magnets.’ – Rhia

Now that we have completed our class novel, we wrote letters to Mr Mudge telling him all about or adventures and to thank him for his help. We used informal language and focussed on using paragraphs.

‘It was very interesting because we wrote our own letter.’ – Michelle

‘It was fun writing the letter because I like writing!’ – Morgan

Finally we had an assembly to celebrate Wee John the Janny’s retirement.

‘It was sad but it was fun as well!’ – Levente

‘It was emotional but we will still remember him!’ – Emily

‘He was always really nice to us.’ – Michelle

‘He is very funny and makes me laugh when he dresses up!’ – Sophie R

Congratulations to Sophie D on being awarded our praise postcard this week.

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

We have had another short but busy week. Here are some of our comments:

In Writing we continued a story starter about an old cottage and we used descriptive openers – Kate

In PE we played Jailbreak and Boil the Kettle – Kuba

This week we were given our new reading books – Pawel

We started to discuss our new Science topic and we all shared our ideas with Mrs Reeves – Maya

We learned that the Statue of Liberty has changed colour over the years as it used to be a gold colour as it is made of a metal called copper – Carly

This happened due to a chemical reaction as the copper statue reacted with water and gases in the air which turned into copper carbonate, making the statue become a green colour – Emma

We learned how to talk about our families in Spanish – Sophie

We wrote some bidding prayers in R.E. – Orla

We had a Number Talks specialist come in to see us and we talked about lots of different strategies including the ‘Niamh strategy’ – Jack

We all enjoyed starting our new committees today – Emma

By Niamh and Alexis

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5R and Mrs Reeves

It has been another fantastic week in Primary 5R!

This week has been Maths week and we have all been learning that it is okay to make a mistake because we can learn a lot from a mistake if you believe in yourself. When you make a mistake, synapses in your brain fire and make new pathways in your brain.  We also discovered that speed is not important when trying to calculate an answer as it is more important that you understand how to use your different strategies to work things out.

We  were all shown an image of 6 dots for just a few seconds and then we described exactly how we could remember the sequence of dots. We noticed that many of us saw the dots in our own unique way.

We also learnt about the Hailstone Sequences which follow these rules:

If a number is even, divide it by 2

If a number is odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1.

A mathematician called Lothar Collatz proposed that for any number you pick, if you follow the procedure enough times you will eventually get to 1. We all enjoyed trying to test this out using different numbers.

We have been learning that a polygon is a shape with many sides, usually more than 4. We have found out the names of some regular polygons:

A quadrilateral has 4 sides and 4 angles , a pentagon has 5 sides and 5 angles, a hexagon has 6 sides and 6 angles, a heptagon has 7 sides and 7 angles,an octagon has 8 sides and 8 angles, a nonagon has 9 sides and 9 angles  and a decagon has 10 sides and 10 angles.

In Art we used 2D shapes to make pictures of faces, people and animals.

In R.E. we designed DVD covers for a 21^st Century Saviour and we discussed how he/she could help us.

In Writing we have been thinking about creating a setting and we all described a house and garden made entirely of sweets.

We have also been revising our spelling of numbers this week.

In P.E. we played Bean Bag tennis and Jailbreak.

Have a great long weekend!

Brooke, Michael and all of P5R

 

 

This week in Primary 5…

 

Maths – In maths this week we have been looking at subtraction and we have been doing maths bingo. We were also revising 2D shapes and in Number talks we were learning about number bonds.

 

Word Boost – These are some of our words this week – vanished, scented, deafening and vigorously. We really enjoyed miming our boost words.

 

Writing – In writing we wrote in a diary entry about Harry Potter’s emotions when he was living in the Dursley’s house but we made mind maps to help us.

 

PE – In PE we learned to play tennis by doing rallies against Mr McCurdy and running around him.

 

Health & Wellbeing – In health & wellbeing we have been focusing on being safe and we discussed Stranger Danger. We also have a new poster for our Class Charter and new wristbands for being Ready, Respectful and Safe.

 

RE – In RE this week we were thanking God for all the things that we have like friends, gifts and talents.

 

Drama – We were doing drama scenes about Harry Potter to help us to think about his feelings and emotions.

 

Spanish – We were using our Spanish words and we had to translate them into English by using our knowledge and memory. We all talked about  feelings in Spanish.

 

Have a great weekend!

Buen fin de semana!

Kate and Cameron C

 

 

 

It’s been  a very busy week for Primary 5D and they  would love to share their learning with you.

Kasia: In Maths we did 5 and 6 digit numbers and even stretched ourselves with 8 digit numbers.

Andrew: Maths was fun, we rolled  a dice and if we got a number we wrote it down and made a bigger number by adding on digits. This helped us with our place value.

Ola: In PE we have been learning all about hockey. We had 4 teams and we played matches against each other. The yellow and blue teams were the winners. We all like PE as we get lots of exercise and Mr Mc Curdy makes it lots of fun. Aaron agrees!!

Angel: This was our first week in P5 to do story writing. We got to create a character and use lots of  adjectives  to describe our characters. Mine was Annabelle, she is helpful and generous.

You would love to read all about our characters and see how creative we are!! We think we will have movie directors from our class in the future because they were so good!!

Emily: In RE with Mrs Howley we designed Friendship posters in groups. We thanked God for all our friends and family.

Michelle: We are really liking our class novel. Junkyard Jack and the Horse that Talked. We have done lots of emotion work using our novel. This helped us to look at emotions and behaviours.

Hasan: With our novel we even got to make videos to predict what we think will happen in the next chapter.

We are looking forward to next week to see where our learning takes us. Have a great weekend everyone.