This Friday we had our first assembly of 2017.

The pink group started algebra.

This week white group started measurement.

We’ve been focusing on global goals.

We did a basketball tournament in PE.

We’re getting a new PE teacher next week.

We started doing boccia with Mr Mcmillan.

The orange group has been doing time and date.

This week we’ve been doing a task called moja island.

The yellow group have been working on their addition.

We have been doing a lot of assesments in language.

This week we got a Spanish teacher and learnt some Spanish.

We entered a harry potter competition.

We wrote an introduction to a spooky story.

We did a maths assessment.

For golden time today we are going to do some Charles Rennie Mackintosh art.

The white group have been learning about data analysis and how to interpret information from graphs.

In P.E we played benchball, tig and dodgeball with Mr. McMillan.

In language we wrote a persuasive piece about our school.

The orange group have been learning about division.

We did the first morning run of 2017!

We have been trying new problem solving maths questions which are ,meant to challenge us and make us think very hard!

We had visitors from Explore Learning who ran a workshop in Roman Numerals (More Maths!!!)

The Pink maths group have been working on algebra.

We found out about Charles Rennie Mackintosh, looked at some of his famous work and used tracing paper to write in his famous style of writing.

In maths the yellow group have been learning about addition and how to carry numbers.

We have a new P.E teacher from Eastwood High School called Miss. Black. On Tuesday she did an exercise pattern that we had to copy.

Mr. Crocket, the music specialist, taught us a song called’ The Sands of the Shore’. We learnt about; solo, chorus and introduction.

We had a Spanish lesson with Mrs. Amigo. We learnt how to greet each other in Spanish.

The purple reading group have been reading about Germany and the Germans.

The sun is back!

The orange group have been practising their division.

On Wednesday it was Burns Day! We researched information about Robert Burns and created a PowerPoint.  We also translated one of Burns’ poems from Scots into English.  Then we danced to Auld Lang Syne.  Ella also showed the class her highland dancing!

In maths the White Group have been learning about data analysis and have been creating various graphs this week.

Miss Amigo came in to help us with our Spanish, we were learning how to greet each other and how to name different parts of the face and body.

In maths the Pink Group have been working on their algebra.

Today, we spoke more about our Global Goals and the problem plastic causes when it is washed into the Oceans.

In maths the yellow group have been practising subtraction sums.

In P.E with Miss Black we have been doing movement sequences.

We wrote a persuasive text trying to persuade other to stop using non-renewable energy sources and use renewable energy sources instead!

We wrote a persuasive argument of our own choice. We tried to use a variety of techniques including repetition, emotive language, exaggeration, rhetorical question and group of three.  The class came up with lots of interesting topics.

We started our focus groups. There are 6 Focus Groups in the school.  Eco, Charities, Right Respecting Local, Rights Respecting Global, Media and World of Work.

In maths, the white group have been learning about misleading data.

In maths, the pink group have finished algebra and have started learning about percentages, decimals and fractions.

In maths, the orange group have been practicing their division.

In maths, the yellow group have been practicing their subtraction.

In language we were learning about personification and had to give objects a human characteristic.

House points have been given out this week, there are four houses in the school. Fleming, Slessor, Livingstone, Stevenson.

Mrs. Amigo came in to do Spanish with us. She taught us greetings, parts of the body and numbers to ten.  She also showed us some Spanish traditions.

Mrs. Watson has been teaching us about tech tonic plates.

At assembly, the P7 classes presented Mrs. Kirkwood with a cheque for £1081.77 to Erskine Charity.

In maths the white group finished off their topic on data analysis and started on a topic on adding and subtracting.

In maths the pink group have been adding and subtracting with decimals.

In maths, the orange group have also started addition and subtraction.

In maths, the yellow group have been learning about weight.

In grammar and punctuation some groups have been learning about colons and semi-colons.

All the groups have new reading books, we are reading fiction books.

In Spanish, Mrs. Amigo has been teaching us the days of the week.

Mrs. Ahmed showed us how to make ovens using pizza boxes and foil.

On Wednesday we went to Whitelee Windfarm. We went on a bus trip around the windfarm to see some of the turbines.  We also carried out an experiment where we built our own mini-turbine.

On Tuesday we went to the library.

Our music teacher, Mr. Crocket, brought in his trombone to play.

In art we created landscapes of Scotland using oil pastels.

We started a new topic – Scottish Wars of Independence.

James, Hannah, Eilidh, Mahek, Molly in P5A represented the school at the local cross country competition at Rouken Glen Park.

We started our new health topic – drugs.

In maths the pink group have been continuing their work on decimals.

The white group have been continuing their work on addition and subtraction.

The orange group have also been continuing their work on addition and subtraction.

The yellow group have been reading scales and measuring weights.

On Thursday it was World Book Day – We did some activities about our favourite stories.

In language, the purple group started a new book called Farm Boy. The blue group are reading Clockwork.  The red group are reading Mr. Majeika and the green group are reading The Emperor’s Underwear.

We created posters about the different types of renewable energy.

Hello!

It has been such an exciting week for Primary 5 as we have been lucky enough to visit both Whitelee Windfarm and Mearns library! 🙂 Whitelee Windfarm was absolutely amazing! We were split into two groups and each group had the chance to take part in a workshop where we got to experiment with our own mini wind turbines to see what type produced the most energy. We used something called an energy meter to measure the voltage produced by the different types of turbine. It was so fun and really interesting!

We then got a bus around Whitelee Windfarm and learned loads of interesting facts about the wind turbines.

Did you know…

• Whitelee is the biggest wind farm in the UK (there are 215 wind turbines in total!)
• Each turbine blade weighs 12 tonnes!
• One turbine alone can power 5000 homes!
• Whitelee produces enough energy to power half the homes in Glasgow (that’s 300,000 homes!)
• The turbines can reach a top speed of 180 miles per hour on really windy days!

We also learned about the wildlife at Whitelee 🙂

During the rest of the school week…

In ICT, we finished our PowerPoint presentations on Renewable energy. We started presenting these to the rest of the class and will continue presenting these next week!

In PE we started creative dance which was really fun. We looked at different stretches and balances and how different sequences of movements can be put together.

Here’s to another great week 🙂

Hello!

This week at Crookfur we celebrated Burns day by learning about the life and work of Robert Burns. We translated ‘Willie Wastle’s wife’ from Scots to Standard English which was tricky but really interesting! We all had a go reading some traditional Scots language 🙂 We then used our imagination to create a drawing of Willie Wastle’s wife based on the descriptions given in the poem.

We also learned about Chinese New Year and completed a comprehension task on this topic. During golden time we created a traditional fortune cookie box which was fun 🙂

In ICT we worked in groups to create a PowerPoint on our topic, Renewable Energy. We look forward to continuing with our power points next week!

We also learned about different landscapes in Scotland as part of our ‘My world and me’ social studies topic which we have started with Mrs Watson. We have found this really interesting so far! 🙂

In maths all groups revised area and perimeter and time as these are topics we have found a bit tricky. In addition, the Fantastic Fractions began learning how to simplify fractions. The Excellent Equations worked on division calculations while the Super Subtractions continued to learn about measure.

All reading groups began exploring biographies. Readosaurus are learning about Neil Armstrong, Writeosaurus are learning about J K Rowling and Spellosaurus are learning about Nelson Mandela.

We have attached some pictures of our classroom and of our Harry Potter competition entries for you to see.

Have a lovely weekend! 🙂

Hello,

Firstly I would like to apologise for the delay in uploading last weeks blog entry!

This week at Crookfur we have been working hard to finish our pictures for the Harry Potter competition. The competition involves creating a magical professor with the winning class going on a trip of a lifetime to discover the magic of Harry Potter at the Warner Bros studios in London!!! We will do our best to post pictures later in the week so that you can see our fabulous creations! 🙂

We have also been busy finishing our renewable energy posters and hope to have these displayed in our classroom very soon.

During PE we met our new teacher who is called Mrs black. We took part in a variety of running and sequencing activities and really enjoyed the lesson.

In language we completed our ‘Titanic: New Evidence’ note taking task and used our notes to write a report on the findings. It was very interesting and we discovered lots of new information!

The fantastic fractions have been learning more about equivalent fractions and will be continuing with this next week too. The excellent equations continued to learn about volume and capacity by estimating the capacity of different containers before filling them with water and discussing the accuracy of their estimations. The super subtractions have been focusing on the Crookfur Construction Challenge which has involved lots of tricky problem solving activities.

This week we were also lucky enough to take part in a discover learning workshop in our classroom. During this workshop we learned about roman numerals and took part in various problem solving activities which were all themed around a roman banquet! This was really fun!

We also had our class photos taken which was fun (and we all looked fantastic! 😉

It has been another busy week and Primary 5 have all worked very hard 🙂

Hello,

This week in maths, the Fantastic Fractions have been learning about fractions and have been creating some excellent examples of fractions for our maths display! The Excellent Equations have started learning about volume. Next week, they will be estimating and measuring volume by filling different sized containers with water. This week in maths, the Super Subtractions have enjoyed learning how to complete more complicated vertical calculations.

All maths groups have enjoyed taking part in problem solving activities.

In language, we were learning about note taking and we used a documentary on the Titanic to help us do this. It was really fun!! We also enjoyed revising our grammar and seeing just how far we have come since the start of the year!

We are excited to be taking part in a Harry Potter competition which involves us creating our own magical professor. The prize is a trip to Harry Potter land in London! Our creations are fantastic and Primary 5 are confident that they have a good chance of winning 🙂

We have also continued with our renewable and non-renewable energy topic and have been learning more about windfarms. We are designing posters that explore the arguments for and against the construction of windfarms which has been really interesting. We hope to visit a real windfarm soon 🙂

This week we started learning Spanish with Mrs Amigo which was really exciting!

We have all been working hard on classroom displays and our classroom is looking awesome! (Photos to follow very soon)

Everyone has worked really hard this week!