Moy Regional Primary School

P5

Enjoy your Halloween break!

We made colourful witches’ hats for Halloween.

Fun Halloween Activities

P5 recently took learning outdoors to practice their function machines skills in an active and engaging way. They used the beanbags and hoops on the playground to make up the function for each function machine. Everyone enjoyed this hands-on activity.

P5 have been exploring the world of fables. Working collaboratively in groups, they made some fables dice featuring a setting, an animal character, a key object and a moral lesson. They then rolled the dice to help plan their very own stories. Everyone enjoyed this creative activity and came up with some fantastic story ideas, showing great teamwork and imagination!

P5 have been working very hard on fractions, taking part in practical activities to reinforce learning, great job everyone!

Pictograms

To begin, we practised counting and showing numbers within 50 using pictogram symbols where each whole circle represented 2 and a half circle represented 1.

We noticed that even numbers are always shown with whole circles and odd numbers need a half circle on the end.

We worked in pairs to count the tally total in the table. Then, based on a variety of chart themes, we used the whole and half circles to display this data within the pictogram.

There were 6 different chart themes to choose from. Once we finished, we got to rotated around the other charts in our pairs and completed the next example.

Finally, we changed our tally charts to now show new amounts in multiples of 5. We then used whole circles representing 5 to display this data within the pictograms.

This was good fun and the children engaged in this very well, with excellent teamwork being displayed to present the pictogram data successfully.

Great job P5s!

Let's Make 20!

We added the number cards to the grid to create number pairs which will add to make 20.

We also used the Topmarks game, Hit the Button, to practise identifying these number bonds.

Punctuation Practice: Commas in a List

We explored the different types of commas use within our text, The Lion and the Mouse, and shaded these different colours to group these examples.

We then practised punctuating example lists of objects and actions together by adding paper commas.

We got sentence strips which we used to have a go at adding the missing commas. P5s were able to add the commas very well! Great working on this everyone!

The Potato Famine

P5 pupils travelled to the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, where they visited various cottages typical of the mid 1800's in Ireland. It was really interesting to learn about what life was like for people of that time, with their daily routines and simple lifestyles.

We heard first-hand descriptions of how the arrival of potato blight in 1845 impacted communities very deeply, with many families left suffering from starvation and disease or being evicted from their homes.

Looking fantastic in your Victorian style costumes everyone!
Well done for all your effort!

Potatoes

We learned about how potatoes were grown and about the dreadful blight fungus which attacked crops in September, 1845.

At the first cottage, the Landlord’s agent was there to collect the rent!

Common Cottage features

Early cottages were built with stone and had a thatched roof. They also had a mud or stone floor.

Windows were small to reduce heat lost during the cold winter, but also to keep the cottage cool in summer.

Cottages were heated by a turf fire and lit with candles.

Furniture was extremely basic and not particularly comfortable.
Adults slept on a raised wooden platform, while children often slept on the floor or up in the half loft.

a potato basket

Hard to beat the warmth and smell of a crackling turf fire.

A Hawthorn hedge grows along the front of the cottage, as it is a symbol of

protection and good luck.

Yarn Making

We met this very friendly lady on the path who was a Weaver. She invited us to come to her cottage where she showed us how she was spending the morning making yarn from sheep's wool on her spinning wheel.

We got to help her with combing the sheep's wool. Her cottage was so beautiful.

Time for School!

In the school room, we heard about a typical day and the kind of subjects the pupils would have been learning. Teachers were sometimes harsh and punished children severely.

Off the the Shops!

We visited some of the shops in the town before boarding the ship to set sail for America.

It was very interesting to discover that the Draper's Shop and the family who owned it had originally come from Moy!

Emigrating to America
We boarded the ship, just like those that set sail for America, and found out what it would have been like as a passenger. The conditions were very crowded, uncomfortable, dirty and dangerous.

A corn and pumpkin field in 'America'.

A Fresh Start in America
We saw how the more modern cottages had developed when people went to America.
Access to wood in pine forests allowed people to build log cabins very easily.
Larger cottages allowed families to have more rooms and greater space.

Furnishings were also giving people a little more comfort.

Log Cabins

At the log cabin, we learned about how people used bear and beaver fur to add warmth to their home.
People used the large horns like a funnel to add gun powder to their guns when hunting.
We got the sample some corn bread with apple butter which was delicious.

Under the Hawthorn Tree

We were able to learn from and interact with their new exhibition all based on the novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree, which we are reading in class.

Taking a rest under the Hawthorn tree after a busy day.

Much praise deserved by everyone for conducting yourselves so sensibly on our trip.

The interest shown, along with the great behaviour and manners which were displayed, made it a lovely day out for everyone! Well done all!

Reading Musical Notes

In Music lessons, P4/5 pupils have been learning to recognise the music notes.

We know that notes on the line can be learned using the rhyme: Every Good Boy Deserves Football.

Notes in the spaces spell the word: F A C E.

We practised showing our notes knowledge by playing this fun card game.

P5 recently enjoyed some outdoor learning based on our work on place value. Everyone was given out a card and had to find a partner with a matching card. Everyone worked hard and enjoyed this activity.

Some recent work on place value

Mental Maths Calculations using Multiples of 100.

X5 Tables Revision

We set out dice 5s cards to practise counting in groups of 5. We used these cards to illustrate what the x5 tables mean.

Types of Nouns

A noun is the name of a person, place or thing.

In P5, we have been delving deeper and have been learning about common, proper, abstract and collective nouns.

Common nouns are objects that we could hold in our hand.

Proper nouns are special names which must be written with a capital letter.

Abstract nouns are things which we cannot detect using our 5 senses. These are often the words for our feelings.

Collective nouns are the names we give to groups such as a flock of sheep.

Hawthorn Trees
We carried out research about Hawthorn trees or Fairy trees as they are sometimes known. It was very interesting to discover the magical folklore associated with these trees.
They are thought to be a magical portal leading to the land of fairies.
It is also believed that they are an important symbol of protection and good luck.

Fairy Tree Paintings by P5

Fairy Trees

Hawthorn trees are sometimes called fairy trees. They are thought to be a symbol of protection and good luck because of the fairies that live under them.

People sometimes ask the fairies to watch over people that are special to them. They hang items like ribbons, a baby’s toy, a dummy or a football scarf on the branches.

We wrote a special message to the fairies who live under our class hawthorn tree. We placed this ribbon on the tree for someone special in our lives.

Which special person in your life would you hang a ribbon on the tree for?

Finding Halves of Multiples of 2

Alphabetical Order

Learning about King David with Colin Tinsley's Youth Ministries

Outdoor Learning about Nouns in the Forest Area.

Doubling Multiples of Ten

Dividing By 2

We drew hoops to practise counting how many groups of 2 could be made with counters showing various multiples of 2 numbers.

Capitals Scavenger Hunt

Sorting to show which word categories must be written with a capital letter.

Capital Letters

We have been reading the fable story of The Lion and the Mouse.

This story was originally written by the famous ancient Greek writer, Aesop. He wrote many other fables, like The Tortoise and the Hare. These stories teach the reader a lesson.

As we read the text, we shaded the capitals specific colours to explain the reasons for their use. For example, we shaded capital letters at the beginning of a sentence orange.

We sorted various capitals word cards into their categories like places, days of the week or names.

x2 Tables

We practised showing the x2 tables by setting out these dotty cards to represent counting up in groups of 2.

What do the Multiplying Tables Really Mean?

It is important to understand what the numbers in multiplication tables actually represent, so that we can interpret them correctly.

We practised displaying groups of counters within the table to demonstrate the multiplication sum shown on the interactive whiteboard.

We also labelled the picture sets with the corresponding tables card.

Number Facts Within 20

We revised number facts within 20 by matching the triangle sum cards to the correct answers shown within the stars.

Number Wars

In pairs, pupils placed 3 cards each face down on the desk. They then turned the cards over and counted up their numbers. The person with the higher total was the winner and they got a coloured disc.

We used dice to generate addition sums made up of 2 and 3 single digits.

Pupil Well-Being

At Moy Regional, we take children’s mental health very seriously and value the voice of every child.

Monday Mental Health Check-in gives children an outlet through which they can communicate how they are doing at any time during the week, but in particular after the weekend or a holiday period.