Category: Primary 5

Learning Highlights

In maths we have been continuing to develop our understanding of symmetry. We decided to use the outdoor environment to create symmetrical designs using natural resources. We have enjoyed participating in Free Writing Friday again this week. In literacy we enjoyed using the reading comprehension box cards to challenge our understanding of what we read. In PE, we have started our Scottish country dancing block to prepare for Christmas parties.

Pupil Voice

“I liked doing the comprehension box card challenge because you had to try to figure out the answers.” – Alishba

“I liked doing PE because it was fun learning the dances!” – Madison

“I liked doing symmetry in maths because it was fun trying to draw the other half of the picture and it was hard.” – Lennon

“I liked doing art because we got to work in pairs to make a symmetrical design outside!” – James

Parent Involvement

After discussion with the children, they would like parents/guardians to draw one half of a symmetrical design and get your child to complete the other half! Good Luck and enjoy!

 

Learning Overview

This week in P5 we have had many learning highlights.  In maths we have been learning about symmetry and we made links across the curriculum and continued to develop our understanding of symmetry through art.

We enjoyed free writing Friday as it gives us the opportunity to use our imagination.

We had an exciting trip to Jupiter Artland where we got to meet the different sculptures and made our very own journey sticks to bring home.

As part of our writing lesson, learning about writing procedural texts, we made slime. It was a great learning experience for us and made us appreciate the importance of measurements of ingredients when making slime.

Pupil Voice

“I liked doing art because we made a silhouette to celebrate Remembrance Day” – James

“I liked doing the symmetry art because we didn’t just make pictures we also got to use dots and rulers to make a really cool shape!”- Wojtek

“I enjoyed making the journey stick at Jupiter Artland” – Alishba

“I enjoyed the trip to Jupiter Artland and I guessed that the stone on the first sculpture was Obsidian and loved when we got to go into the Amethyst cave!” – Ahmad

“I liked free writing Friday because I wrote about a racing game called “Forza Horizon 4!” – Kayden

Parent Involvement

Big Talk – Ask your child about the key features of a procedural text.

Search for symmetry in your local environment/ play a symmetry game/ design a symmetrical picture together (tip- using graph paper will make this easier….we have tried!).

Learning Overview

This week in P5 we have had many learning highlights. A definite favourite for all was developing coding skills using Scratch to program Marty the robot to dance. In literacy we have been learning about proper nouns and how to write a procedural text accurately. In maths and numeracy we have been applying our knowledge of the four processes to complete Halloween themed calculations and have been using the outdoors to learn about Symmetry.

Pupil Voice

Marty

“Marty has been really fun to use.  We got to do a lot of fun things with him when we and him!” – Matthew

“It was really fun making the music video and the backdrop!” – Oma

Writing

“It was good writing instructions and now we know the right layout!” – Madison

“We were able to use our knowledge about Marty to write instructions for Mrs Scott to use Marty!” – Angelina

PE

“I liked doing PE, it was really fun and making me more active.” – Wojtek

“We played lots of fun games in PE!” – Leo

Maths

“It was fun being outside when learning about symmetry. We had to look for natural materials to use!” – Ahmad

“It was really tricky to solve the Halloween maths problems!” – Harry

Parent Involvement

Why not visit Scratch,  https://scratch.mit.edu/ and get your child to teach you some coding skills!

 

It has been a busy week in P5!

One of the highlights of our week was getting to use Marty the Robot. We had to use Scratch to program him and make him move. We hope to make a music video and make him dance by the end of our Marty project.

“He was really fun to play with!” – Filip

“I enjoyed making him dance; he ended up in the splits at the end!” – Maeve

“On Scratch we had lots of different commands that we could use to make Marty dance. My favourite was the splits and the circle move!” – Angelina

In maths we have been learning about symmetry. We were outside using hoops and natural materials to create symmetrical patterns and have been looking at lines of symmetry in shapes. We developed our learning further through an art lesson where we had to complete an animal drawing ensuring it was symmetrical.

“ I liked drawing the other half of the cat, it was really hard but that’s fine!” – Alishba

“I liked doing the white tiger and it has so much detail on it! I liked how it looked when I was finished!” – Wojtek

“I liked it when I had to do the hair on the face because I had to add texture!” – Harry

In PE, we were focussing on our fitness. We used playing cards and dice. If you rolled a 6, your partner got to choose what exercise you had to do 6 of. When we used the cards, each suit meant a different exercise! A joker meant 30 press ups.

“I liked it because nearly every time you got a different exercise to do!” – Marcus

“It was a competition so whoever got the most cards won! My team won!” – Maeve

“It was fun to play with because of the competition! My team had the least players and we didn’t get the joker!” – Ahmad

We have tried to incorporate more free play into our daily routine. We are taking it very seriously and have demonstrated that we can be trusted to complete our learning activities and have some free play at the same time.

“It is fun and we are getting more time to actually play with our friends!” – Ahmad

“I think it is a really good decision because it gets us away from our devices!” – Angelina

“I really like free play and I like that I can play with my friends and play board games!” – Oma

“Having time to play when we are learning helps us learn and focus more and have a growth mind-set!” – Annayah

 

Have a great weekend, P5 and Miss D!

We have been busy in P5 this week.

We have had lots of fun at the harvest festival where we were learning in collaboration with other primary schools including Bankton, Dedridge and Williamston about harvesting and what kind of foods are harvested in different countries.

“I enjoyed learning the song about a farmer during harvest time!” – Madison.

“I was a little bit nervous standing up in front of the other schools to present!” – Alan.

“Julia K and I got picked to go up with some other boys and girls from different schools and we had to make different words from H-A-R-V-E-S-T. – James.

“I enjoyed learning the song that we had to sing for the other schools, ‘The Harvest Song’. – Oma.

We continued with our basketball skills in PE this week but missed Mr McCurdy and we hope he feels better soon.

We enjoyed our trip to the Library this week and choosing a book to bring back to school.

“I chose ‘The Secret Diary of Kitty Cask’” – Wojtek

“I chose ‘Action Dogs Ocean of Pearls’” – Harry

As part of celebrating maths week, we worked in teams to solve a murder mystery challenge where we had to solve different clues using different mathematical processes.

“This was really tricky because there were lots of names on the suspect list!” – James

“I liked the murder mystery because we had to work out the different clues!” – Julia C.

We have also been learning about rounding and adjusting to help solve calculations mentally.

“I found this very hard to begin with but after practise I got used to the process.” – Angelina

“I thought it was fun but there was some bits that I got confused with.” – Ahmad

We have also been writing about the African Grassland. We wrote a narrative about an animal that you could find in the African Grassland and had to make sure we had an orientation, a complication and a resolution. We also tried to use adjectives and adverbs to add more detail and description in our writing.

“I wrote about a Zebra called Zack!” – Maeve.

“I wrote about an elephant called Cassie!” – Alishba.

“I wrote about a Gazelle called JJ!” – Olivia.

We hope you have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5!

 

We have had a busy week in P5.

In PE, we have been continuing to work on our basketball skills to help us when we go to a basketball tournament. We learned some more skills including defending and trying to get better at dribbling the ball and move faster when we have it.

“It was very fun learning how to do basketball more.” – Madison

“We have been trying our best on our basket skills for the tournament.” – Ahmad

In maths, we have been focussing on the value of each digit in big numbers. We have been doing a variety of different activities to help us learn.

“I liked doing the place value game outside where we had to make numbers using markers.” – Alishba

“I liked doing the written task where I had to break the numbers down!” – Filip

“I like getting to ick what activity I wanted to do at any time.” – Alan

We have also been learning bout 3D shapes and looking at their properties.

“I enjoyed building 3D shapes using art straws and playdoh.” – Julia C

As part of our smart start activities we had to send an email to share our favourite colours with someone else in our class.

“I sent my email to Aaron, it was good fun!” – Leo

“I liked having a conversation on my email with Harry and James because I have done t before but not actually had a conversation with everyone on it.” – Wojtek

We had another free writing Friday session where we wrote about dogs, animals, formula 1, haircuts and lots more!

We continued with James and the Giant Peach this week and learned some new vocabulary. Some of these words were: serenely, aghast, pandemonium, frantic and colossal.

In PM writing we have been learning all about ‘Narrative’ texts. We learned that the key features of this type of text are a title, the orientation, the complication and the resolution. It has to be written in the past tense and we tried to include adverbs in our writing to make it more interesting.

“I liked doing PM writing because we wrote a story together as a class which had an orientation, a complication and a resolution all about a Formula 1 race.”

We hope you have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.

 

This week, P5 has been really fun!

We have been reading James and the Giant Peach and are at a really exciting stage in the story where James has met the giant bugs! We made posters to advertise the giant peach and developed our tint and shade skills to create a night sky and giant peach picture.

“I really liked doing the art and first we done the night sky and then the peach!” – Julia C

In maths, we have been learning about rounding numbers and estimating answers. We completed some written tasks as well as active tasks and our favourite activity was using the Kahoot quiz.

“Kahoot was really fun because you got to see your name, how well you were doing and how many points you had on the big screen!” – Wojtek

“Kahoot was fun trying to answer the questions! Some of them were tricky!” – Zoe

In PE, we have been developing our basketball skills. This week we were practising shooting balls into the hoop.

“I liked the part where you have to aim and shoot!” – Alan

In writing, we have been wrting a poem about James’ first encounter into the peach. We had to use a metaphor to help describe how he would have been feeling. We found this very difficult.

“I liked ding writing because it was fun and enjoyable!” – Lennon

“I liked doing the writing because we didn’t have to make the poem rhyme and I liked writing the ‘I wonder…, I worry and I hear…’ sentences.” – Harry

We are still enjoying taking part in free writing Friday. This week we had some stories, some comic strips, some recipes and some annotated diagrams.

Enjoy the long weekend, Primary 5 and Miss Diamond.

See you on Wednesday!

This week, P5 has been very busy!

In PE we played dodgeball and started learning skills required in basketball.

“It was very fun!” – Madison

“I like doing basketball and dribbling the ball!” – Alishba

We had another Free Writing Friday slot today where we get to decided what we want to write about.

“I like doing Free Writing Friday!” – Oma

“I liked making a comic strip!” – Annayah

We have continued to work on our class novel, James and the Giant Peach! This week we had to make information leaflets to advertise the Giant Peach and encourage tourists to come along and visit the extraordinary attraction.

“I really enjoyed making the leaflet and I liked using ideas from the book to write in my persuasive leaflet to persuade tourists to come and visit the mammoth peach!” – Angelina

In maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

“We looked at the numbers and focussed on the number in the units column to decide which ten to round it to!” – Harry

“I liked rounding numbers and when we completed the written task we played a fun game with a partner. You had to have a secret number and tell your partner what the number was rounded to the nearest ten and then your partner had 3 attempts to guess your secret number!” – Wojtek

“We also completed a scavenger hunt outside and had to find examples of different maths related shoes, angles and symmetry and take a photo on a device. We are going to make posters to display our findings.” – Matthew

In art, we have developed our learning of tint and shared further by creating a pattern using one colour but added white or black to make different tints and shades.

“It was fun because there was a pattern and we had to put different tints and shades in each section!” – Julia K

“I had a lot of fun doing this and I enjoyed discovering different shades of blue!” – Maeve

During smart start we had one activity where we had to make a personal profile using Microsoft word.

“I found this really fun and added a picture of my favourite games to mine!” – Ahmad

“I enjoyed doing construction during smart start!” – Marcus

We had another look at metaphors this week as this proved to be a little trickier than similes last week.

“I enjoyed listening to lots of songs that had metaphors in them and trying to identify what metaphor was in the song!” – Angelina

“I liked doing the worksheet about metaphors where we had to draw a picture of the metaphor and explain what they mean.” – Ana

Some of our favourite metaphors that we learned this week are:

“I am titanium!” – Leo

“It’s raining cats and dogs!” – Ahmad

“He has a heart of stone!” – Filip

“Her heart was broken!” – Madison

“His mind was on fire!” – Maeve

We hope you have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.

This week we had a very very fun week in P5.

In writing this week we wrote character descriptions about another Awful Aunt for James from our class novel. We had to use similes, metaphors and adjectives to create a clear picture of our character.

“I liked doing writing because making the character mean and weird was really funny!” – Wojtek

“I liked writing because it was fun trying to use similes and metaphors!” – Ahmed

“I liked writing about the horrible aunties!” – Madison

We have tried a new way of working smart starts, there will always be 4 activities and we can ick which one we want to go to. Every day we must choose a different station so that by the end of the week we have had a chance at doing them all.

“I really enjoyed doing smart starts, especially using the stile boards and construction!” – Angelina

“I liked using the construction in my smart start!” – Oma

In art, we have been learning about tinting and shading. We had 6 original colours and we experimented with white and black paint and mixing them together to create lighter and darker shades of colours.

“I really liked art because it was fun!” – Julia

“It was very fun doing it and I had a good time!” – Maeve.

In music this week, we had Mrs Nichol as our teacher.  We played fun games to get to know each other and sang songs.

“I liked doing music when we had to do a hand clap game.” – Alishba

“I liked playing hot potato!” – Madison

“I enjoyed ‘Free Writing Friday’ this week. I wrote about a spider!” – Marcus.

We hope you have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.