Primary 5

Primary 5

Friday, 31 October 2014

Welcome back Primary 4!

I hope your holidays have been nice and relaxing!

We have had a great first week back and are especially excited about our new topic Ancient Egypt. We started the topic by sharing what we already knew on the subject and coming up with some questions we would like answered. We wrote our questions down and built the pyramids with them!! If we manage to answer our question, the answer can be written under the flap!









Acrostic Poems

This week we have been writing acrostic poems with 'Halloween' as our topic word. We started by thinking of lots of words which made us think about Halloween, such as 'eerie,' 'trick-or-treat' and 'pumpkins. We then had to write the word 'Halloween' down the side of our page so that each line could start with a different letter of the word.

Once we had written our poems we practised our computing skills using Microsoft Word to type them up. We could demonstrate how to change the font style, size and some people managed to change the colour too!

Finally we printed out and cut around our poems, we gave them a coloured border and displayed them on the wall. The children organised the wall display all by themselves and added their own decorations!

Here are the finished articles; a lot of hard work went into them! Well done P4!! Have a Spook-tacular Halloween weekend!





Thursday, 9 October 2014

P4's Term 1 Report

Hello All! We have had a very busy first term in primary 4 and are now getting round to updating our blog. Keep an eye out for more regular updates in term 2!

This week we were learning how to write a report, this had to include a title, factual information, headings and a personal opinion. We decided to reflect on what we have been learning about in term 1 using the subject areas as our headings. Here is a compilation of some of the children’s reports. Enjoy!

I hope everyone has a lovely October break! :)



P4’s Personal Learning Report

Maths
In maths we have been learning about addition and subtraction - even though you would think it would be easy, but we do it harder. We have also been learning about time like quarter past, quarter to, o’clock and 10 past, (Zara).

In maths we have been learning about Venn diagrams, addition, subtraction, division, time, times tables, Carroll diagrams, we made a big bar graph and we do mental maths every week, (Christy).

Handwriting
In handwriting we are learning about talls going up and tails going down, family letters and small letters, (Katrina).

P.E
I have learnt to swim more under water and it’s really fun, I can swim a little bit better going backwards, (Matylda).

Swimming is my favourite subject in P.E. I am in the deep end, we do somersault dives, breast stroke, front crawl and back crawl - it’s so fun! (Einar).

We do Cyber Coach in the gym hall, it is when we do some side-steps and we do dance moves like disco and monster moves which is really cool, (Olivia).

In P.E we have been learning how to throw in different ways, like rugby passes, hoop passes and fluffy ball passes, (Thorfinn).

Topic
We have learnt about different places like Vietnam and Scotland, we have been recording the weather for Scotland outside our classroom, (Jordan).

In topic I have learnt about Scotland’s rivers, lochs, islands and cities and about Vietnam, (David).

Talking and Listening
Newsround – when we watch Newsround we have been learning about what’s going on in the world, like what’s been going on in Syria, (Leah).

Writing
In writing we have Newsbooks so we can write about our weekends, we have also written some poetry, (Ethan).

Drama
When we do drama you dance, you sometimes act and you imagine. When Mrs Johnston does it we sometimes do negative or a happy piece of drama, sometimes we have to act out when someone helps you without using words, (Olivia).

Music
In music we were learning to sing ‘Hey Brother’ and the Harvest songs. The first song we did was ‘Hey Brother’, I really liked the Harvest Samba,’ (Ewan).

We do drumming, and singing and piano. I like doing the drums, (Jessie).

Art
In art we were learning how to make a tartan. My tartan was green, white and orange; I also did a sparkly tartan, (Leah).