{"id":21444,"date":"2019-09-06T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/?p=21444"},"modified":"2019-09-06T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:21:32","slug":"primary-5-weekly-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2019\/09\/06\/primary-5-weekly-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 5 Weekly Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, P5 has been very busy!<\/p>\n<p>In PE we played dodgeball and started learning skills required in basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very fun!\u201d \u2013 Madison<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like doing basketball and dribbling the ball!\u201d \u2013 Alishba<\/p>\n<p>We had another Free Writing Friday slot today where we get to decided what we want to write about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like doing Free Writing Friday!\u201d \u2013 Oma<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked making a comic strip!\u201d \u2013 Annayah<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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!\u201d \u2013 Angelina<\/p>\n<p>In maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at the numbers and focussed on the number in the units column to decide which ten to round it to!\u201d \u2013 Harry<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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!\u201d \u2013 Wojtek<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.\u201d \u2013 Matthew<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was fun because there was a pattern and we had to put different tints and shades in each section!\u201d \u2013 Julia K<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of fun doing this and I enjoyed discovering different shades of blue!\u201d \u2013 Maeve<\/p>\n<p>During smart start we had one activity where we had to make a personal profile using Microsoft word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found this really fun and added a picture of my favourite games to mine!\u201d \u2013 Ahmad<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed doing construction during smart start!\u201d \u2013 Marcus<\/p>\n<p>We had another look at metaphors this week as this proved to be a little trickier than similes last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed listening to lots of songs that had metaphors in them and trying to identify what metaphor was in the song!\u201d \u2013 Angelina<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked doing the worksheet about metaphors where we had to draw a picture of the metaphor and explain what they mean.\u201d \u2013 Ana<\/p>\n<p>Some of our favourite metaphors that we learned this week are:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am titanium!\u201d \u2013 Leo<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s raining cats and dogs!\u201d \u2013 Ahmad<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a heart of stone!\u201d \u2013 Filip<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer heart was broken!\u201d \u2013 Madison<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis mind was on fire!\u201d \u2013 Maeve<\/p>\n<p>We hope you have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, P5 has been very busy! In PE we played dodgeball and started learning skills required in basketball. \u201cIt was very fun!\u201d \u2013 Madison \u201cI like doing basketball and dribbling the ball!\u201d \u2013 Alishba We had another Free Writing Friday slot today where we get to decided what we want to write about. \u201cI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2019\/09\/06\/primary-5-weekly-update-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primary 5 Weekly Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions\/21445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}