P.E (Luka, Lucas, Ben, Chloe, Haaris, Jaysen)

“We have been learning handball and bench-ball.  Currently we are doing a P5 handball tournament.  We have been doing circuits with Miss Howard such as ‘spin the pin’ to work on our stamina and accuracy”

Numeracy & Maths (Olivia, Logan, Enrique, Chloe, Eilidh, Zak)

“We are learning the bus stop method for division and we are also practising our times tables through our home learning task.  Also, we have been learning fractions, calculating money for money month, writing and estimating length in cm and mm and calculating time durations.”

Literacy (Fynn, Ryan, Callum, Leo, Kayla)

“In writing we created an 11^th World’s Worst Child and also wrote to include an atmosphere.  We also in Literacy filled in the missing words in a text using our knowledge of context clues and we were skimming and scanning a text to answer questions.”

Art (Josh, Stella, Arran, Rocio, Cooper, Fraser)

“We have been using watercolours to create a sunset.  We mixed red paint with glue and sand to make Peruvian (Nazca lines) sand pictures linked to our topic.  We have been making other Peruvian Art, like drawing llamas which we used inspiration from Peruvian clothing.  We made Christmas wreaths for our poster in the hall with 1, 4 or 5 candles which revised our accurate cutting skills and detail.”

Topic (Rose, Jessica, Cody, T.J. Aiden, Boyd, Fia)

“Last term our topic was the America’s and now it’s the Rainforest.  We are just beginning this Rainforest topic.  In our topic “The Americas” we are working on projects on any country we choose.  Some of those countries could be Mexico, USA, Peru, Columbia, Canada or Brazil.  When we were learning about Columbia we learnt about the coffee bean process.  First beans are berries which are picked.  Then the beans are peeled and ground into coffee powder.  Finally you add boiling water or maybe milk and then you have your coffee.  Some tribes from the Americas are the Incas, Mayans and the Aztecs.”

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Hello everyone!

Here in Windyknowe, we have started our financial education focus.

During money month, we earn money to come to school. We can use our money to buy things like rubbers, pencils, sitting on the teacher’s chair or next to a friend. I’m really enjoying it! – Lucy C

I’ve earned lots of money during money month! I’ve been lending my things to my friends and earning bonuses for working hard. I’ve also been saving lots too – Nathan

I’ve been saving and spending quite a lot! – Omar

I love Numeracy! It’s really fun. I really like working on a text book! – Sophie

I’ve been earning link lizards! We get them if we can link our learning to a job in the future, or if we link our learning to another part of the curriculum – Zeti

Here is what we would like to share about out learning in Literacy

I like writing because I always challenge myself to write more. I liked describing rainforest animals for a friend to guess – Ailis

We have been learning to use the context of a sentence to help us work out the missing word. You need to check over your sentence to make sure it makes sense – Ryan

Even though it’s still November, P5h are beginning to get into the Christmas spirit!

I’ve loved doing Art recently. We have been using watercolours to make Peruvian llamas and Christmas candles – Evi

I’ve enjoyed making the Christmas reindeer bags. These will be sold at the Christmas fair – Alice

I’m excited to go to the Christmas fair. I had the idea to make Christmas gift bags! – Brandon

On Tuesday, we were lucky enough to view a pantomime performance in the hall!

We watched the Mother McGoose show. It was so good and funny. The demon king turned into a baby! The giant goose was called Lucy – Aiden

P2M have been learning lots of new sounds this term. We have been practicing the ‘au’ and ‘aw’ sounds. We took on the role of authors to make our own books and we even made some super, snappy, crocodile jaws!

We have been learning lots about money and have been practicing to recognise different coins. This week we have been learning about budgets and have been making shopping lists to help us keep track of our money.

In our topic we have been learning about tornadoes. We made some tornadoes in a bottle and made some beautiful tornado art work as well.

We have continued to practice our Christmas songs for our Christmas CD. Miss Morland would appreciate if we could practice as much as possible at home as well.

Thanks for reading! From the boys and girls of P2M 🙂