This week primary 5 have been taking part in a Christmas card competition .We have also designed our own Christmas cards which our family will be able to purchase! We have created some fantastic designs!

We have finished our guided readers and are excited to begin our new books next week!

In maths, the fantastic fractions have been completing time word problems and also learning about the properties of triangles! We look forward to learning more about this next week.

The excellent equations have been learning how to calculate the area and perimeter of different shapes. This has been a bit tricky but we are making excellent progress.

The super subtractions have been looking at more complicated function machines and doing a fantastic job.

Today, we were lucky enough to have Mrs Parker (Oscar’s mum) come into school and take us for drama. We learned how to project our voice, follow opposite instructions and create stories using only props and our imaginations! We came up with extraordinary stories 🙂

The orange group have been using the formula A=LxB to work out the area of squares and rectangles. They have also been using cubes to make rectangles and squares with the same area but different perimeter.

The Pink Group have been doing data analysis. They have studied pictograms, bar charts and line graphs.  Today they began their own survey too.

The Yellow group have started learning about 3D shapes. They made some cubes using nets of shapes.

In P.E we have started football. We talked about the rules of football and played a game.

A new music teacher, Mr. Crocket came in to teach us music. We played some games and did some singing.

We did drama today (Friday) with Mrs. Parker who has her own drama company.

Sadly, Mrs. McGee who works in the office had her last day today. P5 wrote her a poem of how kind and caring she is.

All of the language groups have new books. They are all non-fiction.

This week we were very excited to begin our new topic, the classification of animals. So far, we learned that there are different groups of animals that all share similarities. There are insects, fish, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

We also had a meeting in class led by our pupil council representatives where we had the chance to discuss what we would like the pupil council to achieve this year. We came up with lots of exciting ideas which we look forward to sharing in the next meeting.

In maths, the super subtractions have been learning about function machines and how to work out unknown values. The excellent equations have been learning how to calculate the perimeter of different shapes. The fantastic fractions have been learning about data handling and time. The whole class have also been learning how to carry out more complicated forms of vertical calculations. We have all been making excellent progress!

We are also entering a Christmas card competition and are excited to see our finished designs!

In language, we did structured writing and everybody wrote fantastic descriptions of a spooky house.

We have also been continuing with our guided reading and are excited to be starting our new reading books next week!

Primary 5 have had another wonderful week! 🙂

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This week Primary 5 were lucky enough to visit Chris Riddell at Eastwood High School. Chris Riddell is a famous illustrator and author and is the children’s Laureate. Chris Riddell drew lots of pictures in front of us and made it look so easy! He drew pictures of cycling fishes, ugly men with big noses, fairy princesses and lots of different monsters. Chris Riddell illustrated the answer to lots of our questions which was very exciting. We were also given the chance to get our books signed by Chris Riddell or buy signed copies of his most popular books.

In maths we learned about BODMAS, rounding and probability. We also got to do more of our Titanic topic. We built more of our cabins and wrote exciting postcards from the Titanic which we got to stain with tea in order to make them look authentic.

It was a great week!

Crookfur Primary Blog 07/10/16

This week at Crookfur, Primary 5 were excited to be taking part in another road safety competition. In maths the Excellent Equations have completed their work on length and are looking forward to learning about weight. The Super Subtractions are looking at 2D and 3D shapes and are enjoying it very much. The Fantastic Fractions have completed their work on volume and are now exploring graphs and data handling. We have been doing more work on our Titanic cabins and we are excited to report that they are nearly finished! We have been having a debate in class regarding who is to blame for the sinking of the Titanic. This has been an excellent opportunity to explore different views and express our opinions. For Global Goals, we learned about climate change and found out that polar bears are in danger of becoming extinct! We learned that global warming and the many consequences of climate change.

It’s been a great week! 🙂

We have a new helping hands display in class where pupils have different responsibilities in the school.

In maths the Pink group have been learning about rounding and estimating and have even been using decimals.

The white maths group have been learning about weight. We have been estimating how much an object weighs and using scales and weights to measure the weight of the object.

We started a new topic all about animals, plants and species.

The yellow maths group have been learning about symmetry and have been creating our own symmetrical designs.

Our Titanic models and design briefs were assessed and judged by P6.

The orange maths group have been learning about area and perimeter. We have been creating shapes and measuring their areas.

We have been designing Christmas cards.

We created some spooky pictures and wrote some spooky poems.

In P.E we were practising our gymnastic skills using the apparatus.

The pink group have been learning about angles and using protractors to measure angles. We have also been learning about durations of time.

The orange group have been learning about estimating and rounding.

The yellow group have been learning how to read the time.

The white group have been doing function machines using the 4 operations.

We have looked at magic squares for problem solving.

We have been discussing the Global Goals more and today looked at No. 15 – Life on Land.

We have been learning about common and proper nouns.

We have been learning about personification and wrote a poem about the great outdoors using personification.

We have finished our models of the First Class rooms of the Titanic.

We have been looking at making predictions in language.

We have been working in groups to design and build a model of a first class room on the Titanic.

In P.E we have been playing 5 bat cricket and are getting much better at our teamwork which is needed to succeed in this game. We have also been playing cups and saucers in P.E.

In maths the pink group have been learning about angles, the orange group have been learning about grid references, the white group have been carrying out their own survey and the yellow group have been doing time.

We are getting much faster at completing our morning mile.

We have been learning about onomatopoeia this week and have been using it in our writing which was to describe a haunted house!

We watched a short animation called Home Sweet Home and used this to answer questions including predication questions.