Good morning Primary 5!
I am so looking forward to meeting you all in person tomorrow. Today, I’ve set you some home learning tasks. You can access these on Teams or through the link here:
See you tomorrow!
Mrs Hare 🙂
On Tuesday 14th May both Primary 5 classes went to the Science Centre in Glasgow. This term we will be developing our scientific understanding of Changing Materials and The Water Cycle so the Science Centre seemed like the perfect place to visit to reinforce our learning!
After arriving and having a quick snack, we went to the science theatre to watch the show ‘Water Water Everywhere’.
“My favourite part was the ‘Water Water Everywhere’ and I learned that water is made of H2O.” – Isla
“I learned what H2O meant -> Hydrogen and Oxygen.” – Samantha
Kasey, Ethan, Daniel and Brooke all enjoyed the show because the presenter sprayed us all with a water gun and we got wet! (This was not Mrs Hare’s favourite part of the show!)
After the show we had some time to visit the gift shop before stopping for lunch. Unsurprisingly many of us said the gift shop was our favourite part! Mrs Hare was very impressed with everyone applying their learning about money to a real life situation and showing their budgeting skills. She was also very impressed with the generosity of so many children who wanted to use their own spending money to buy gifts for their siblings, family members and friends.
After lunch, we had some free time to explore and interact with some of the exhibits in the Science Mall.
“I liked the pilot game.” – Bretas
“I found a machine that if you flicked a switch and spun a wheel, lights would come on.” – Arran
We ended our fun-filled day with a visit to a real working lab to conduct an experiment. We learned about the different steps that Scottish Water take to make the water on Earth safe for us to drink. We then tested different materials to see which ones made the best filters and then we designed our own layered filters and tested them.
“I liked the show and the lab because it was fun to do experiments.” – Morven
“My best part was when we got to filter water.” – Logan
“I loved the lab.” – Josh
Overall, a fun-filled day of learning was enjoyed by all. So many of us struggled to pick just one part to be our favourite.
“I loved it all so much.” – Kaiden
“I liked all of it the best.” – Owen
“I liked all of it 🙂 It was great fun!” – Alexander
Today we celebrated World Book Day by coming to school dressed as an emotion or in our pyjamas and onesies.
As the theme of World Book Day this year was ‘Share a Story’ we were invited to bring in our favourite book to share it with the class. Below is a picture of some of us who shared our favourite books with the class. We had a nice range of fiction and non-fiction books.
We also took part in a Book Day Masterclass with author Frank Cottrell-Boyce and illustrator Steven Lenton. The illustrator showed us how to anthropomorphise a dog to show different emotions. Then we were set a challenge of designing a character – a dog that wants a job! We had some excellent ideas, from dogs who wanted to be soldiers to wizards!
This week in P5H we are learning about the properties of 3D Shapes. We can describe 3D Shapes by the shape of their faces and by the number of faces, edges and vertices they have.
Today we were exploring nets of 3D Shapes. We really enjoyed building 3D Shapes from their nets.
Here we are busy investigating different possible nets of a cube. We found 11 different true nets.
As you can see we take our mathematics very seriously…
Well, we do most of the time!
Last week, P5 had their Christmas Party. We had lots of fun playing party games, dancing and we even stopped for a wee snack and a blether. It was a fun afternoon!
Here are some pictures from our party:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone in P5, Miss Rodger and Mrs Hare.
