Primary 5 blog

I think that Miss Smith is really good at teaching fun ways about poetry she has done senses, alitarations, haiku s,imiles i liked sense poem because we had to pick a sence like taste,smell,sight,touch and miss smith added extra one feelings. I picked taste and well, when you pick a sense you have to pick another one to go after it E.G-
-i would like to taste the smelly paws walking along the floor.
do you get it now?

Primary 5 have been learning about customs and traditions in religious festivals.

They hatve been working very hard with Miss Smith learning about how Chinese New Year is celebrated.

P5 - here is another clip showing a dragon dance, the dragon is chasing the pearl.

Can you leave a comment to let me know what you have learnt about the customs and traditions of chinese new year? (Remember not to just tell me what you did, this is different than what you were learning!)

We’vebeen doing a show at school called: ‘Passport to Paris’. we had to learn abit of Spanish, French & German. It was really fun! we got to wear silly costumes that were okay, but i wouldn’t go out walking around the streets with it on!

by lucy

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We have been writing poems in class and if we want to we are aloud to enter a poem compatition, the prize is to get are poems published in a book. Some of us are doing them about dragons and some of us are doing them about senses.

by Isla , lucy and Claudia

We have just started our new science topic of electricity. We are trying the new learning outcomes for the Curriculum for Excellence which are:

‘I can design and build a game or model which uses simple components in a series circuit, and explain in simple terms why the circuit works.’

‘I can design a circuit which can be used to sort materials into electrical conductors and insulators. I can identify where conductors and insulators are important in everyday applications.’

This is going to be an exciting topic with the children actively investigating how circuits work and why, ending up with them designing and creating their own working games or models. They will be able to draw the circuit that they intend using and be able to discuss why their models work using appropriate vocabulary.

Some of the Primary 5s were investigating how to make helicopters, computer sound effects and lots more today. We are looking forward to them sharing this knowledge with the rest of the P5s very soon. Well done everyone, you’ve done fantastically well today!

P5 finished part one of their electricity challenge today - they had to come up with  a question they would like to research relating to electricity. They had two research sessions and one session to create a display showing what they had found out. Some of the questions the children came up with were, amongst others
‘ How is electricity linked to Global Warming?’

‘ What is the history of electricity?’

‘How much electricity do we use?’

You can see the fruits of their labour above with our brand new classroom display created by themselves!

Primary 5 have all been learning and reciting scots poetry over the last couple of weeks. We have decided that Imogen and Nicole will represent us as a class at the Scottish Assembly tomorrow, good luck girls!