P5m Blog Update – Week ending 18th March

Over the last few weeks we have heard a lot of our class novel, Danger Gang. It’s very good and we think it’s a book that everyone should read. It’s about a boy called Frankie who writes diary entries to his friends because he moved house to Freaky Town. Lots of freaky things happen in Freaky Town.

In Art, we have been learning about sketching and we have been completed a sketch of an apple, rather than colouring it we had to shade it. We had to concentrate hard and follow the instructions carefully. We liked the clip that reminded us of what to do.

We learnt about Moses in RME, Moses freed the people of Israel. We painted a picture to show what happened in the story. We also split a page in our jotter into 4 and drew pictures to represent the parting of the Red Sea, Moses throwing down the staff, the burning bush and the 10 commandments.

In topic, we have been learning about eco-friendly inventions. We created our own and made them out of Lego. One group made an eco-friendly car, another group made a robot that can turn into a house, car and plane and a third group made a caravan. It was a fun activity because we got to use our creativity skills to make what we wanted and that would be good for the environment.

We were learning about quantities in Maths and fractions in Numeracy. We learnt that the top of the fraction was the numerator, the bottom was the denominator and that an improper fraction had a bigger number on the top than the bottom. We also now know about mixed fractions. The mixed number fractions were tricky but we persevered until we managed it. The final thing we did with our fractions this week was to simplify them. We had to use our division skills a lot when simplifying.

In Writing, we have been learning about expositions. We have been looking at different arguments and deciding what we agree with.

P6W Learning Blog 18.3.22

18th March 2022         Primary 6W Blog

 

Literacy

In literacy we have been investigating how to create a range of texts from notes that we have made.  We began by researching information about famous Russians and then created a biography.  Now we are making notes on the advantages and disadvantages of renewable/ non- renewable energies in order to write a persuasive piece of writing called an exposition.  We celebrated book week by joining in with lots of book week related tasks – we created a school relay story, we joined in with a BBC Live Lesson and Mrs Welsh went to the book shop to collect our free book.  We are looking forward to adding these to our “First Minister’s Reading Passport.”

Numeracy

In numeracy we have been learning  strategies for long multiplication and division including the “chimney method” and the “grid method.”  Miss Foote came to do our number talk with us on Tuesday and she was “blown away” with our mental arithmetic skills.  In Maths, we have been developing our understanding of increasingly complex shapes – polygons and quadrilaterals.

 

IDL

As part of Science fortnight, our topic work has had a STEM focus.  We have been nurturing our eggs in their incubator.  On Monday, we learned how to “candle” our eggs to see if any of them contained a growing chick.  Unfortunately , it doesn’t look like the eggs have developed into chicks but we are hoping to have another try after the Easter holidays.  Fingers crossed that we have better luck the next time.  We were also using our engineering and problems solving skills to build the tallest tower possible using just spaghetti and mini marshmallows and creating a paper bridge strong enough to hold 15 unifix cubes.

We have had a number of pupil led lessons since our last blog.  This is where one of the pupils in class has an opportunity to teach the rest of the class a skill they are really good at.  We have had a great lessons on Coding, Football Skills and Origami.

RME

In RME we have been learning about festivals from across the world and how they link to religion. We were making connections between British Pancake day and Russian Maslanitsa Day.  We made our own pancakes to celebrate. This also involved us using our reading skills and measuring skills in order to follow the recipe accurately.

We have also been discussing the importance of Holy week to Christians and looking at famous works of art that illustrate the key events of Holy Week. Do you recognise any?

 

Assembly

We are all VERY excited to be having our first, whole school assembly in over 2 years tomorrow!

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Numeracy

In numeracy we have been learning about decimals. We know about tenths and hundredths and have been working out their place value. We now know that decimal numbers are not whole numbers and we have been comparing them to fractions.

Literacy

We have been writing some fantastic expositions. We have been looking at persuasive language and trying to create convincing arguments.

PE

In PE we have been using our throwing and catching skills to play games of bench ball. We have also been doing team games and challenges.

IDL

We have learnt about loads of different inventions. One of the inventions we looked at was the light bulb by Thomas Eddison. We learnt how to create light bulb circuits with switches and buzzers. Next week we are going to create our own lightbulb inventions. We have also been creating our own inventions including bright bags, the maker, the robodog, the gas and litter bot and the get up and go.

Flowers Project

We have been taking part in a national research project based on weather and plant growth. Some of our bulbs have now started to flower and we cant’ wait to bring them home at Easter!