Primary 5 tested which of the Little Pigs houses was the strongest. 

It was the one made of bricks.  

Using our scales we weighed out the ingredients for gingerbread men. Miss Seal let us smell the cinnamon, ginger and the dark moscovado sugar. We felt the textures of the flour, sugar and syrup. We sieved, mixed and blended. 

Next week we are going to roll out our dough ( don’t worry it’s frozen), cut out the shapes, bake the gingerbread and then decorate! Watch out next week for more photos. 

Today we were weighing using blocks. The heaviest item was the monkey. The lightest was the pen. We are also learning the language of weight. 

We hope you like our Christmas Art? Especially our Christmas tree! 

Thank you to Gala from  Ulster Wildlife for visiting P5. We went outside and collected leaves and did leaf rubbings. 

We came inside and looked at different birds, animals and leaves. We then planted spring bulbs. 

Last half term our topic was Food for Thought. We didn’t get to the farm then but hurray we got today. 

We loved the soft play area, the farm animals and the cuddle animals. 

We took part in the Toothbrush Challenge. We stained our teeth and then brushed them to look for plaque build up! 

We sang this is the way we brush our teeth as we cleaned the giant set of teeth. We enjoyed using the mirrors. 

As part of our Food for Thought topic P5 visited Malone House. We are learning about how food gets to our table. So we tasted some of the tastier treats that are made from wheat.

We also looked at the changes in the park. We saw the changes in the trees, pine cones and conkers.

The Parliament Buildings Beekeepers came to school and told us all about saving bees and beekeeping. 

They showed us their hive, beeswax and best of all their honey. We sold the honey at The McMillan Coffee Morning. 

In P5 we made smoothies with Mrs Carberry.