Primary 5S
Week 6 - Topic
This week, we have been learning about dragons as part of our mythical creature’s topic. P5S have spent the week making their own dragon eggs out of paper mâché.
They each put three layers of paper mâché on their balloons and then got to pop the balloons and decorate the eggs with bright paint, glitter, sequins, and pipe cleaners!
Everyone stood up at assembly to show and talk about their eggs, including what kind of dragon was inside and some even gave their dragon a name!
- Miss Shea
Week 5 (12.09.2024) - Topic
This week, we have been learning about leprechauns as part of our mythical creature’s topic.
The class were asked to plan and make leprechaun traps in small groups. They were given some time the day before to plan and gather resources and then had 40 minutes to build them.
Each group demonstrated how their traps worked, and we discussed how well each trap worked at catching the leprechaun!
- Miss Shea
Week 4 - Maths
This week we have been learning about multiplication strategies, particularly arrays, number lines, and grids.
To practice arrays, the class have been using Lego blocks to visually show their multiplication sums.
We have enjoyed learning about these new strategies over the past week and especially enjoyed creating and solving their own sums!
- Miss Shea
Week 3 (27.08.2024) - Topic
Similar to last week, we continued to explore using different materials to make a new home for Nessie.
This week the class were asked to build Nessie’s new home out of Kapla blocks.
We compared the sturdiness of these with the Lego houses and agreed that the Lego bricks would be a more sturdy and suitable material for building Nessie a new home than Kapla!
- Miss Shea
Week 2 (22.08.2024) - Topic
This week, we have been learning about Nessie, the loch ness monster, as part of our mythical creature’s topic.
The class were set a challenge to build Nessie a new home on land - or a ‘holiday home’ - out of Lego. They were given 30 minutes to complete this in groups of 3.
We discussed the sturdiness of each of their homes and talked about if Lego is a suitable material for Nessie’s new home!
- Miss Shea
p5s newsletter august 2024.pdf