The last few weeks have passed really quickly with lots of exciting things happening in our classroom. We have welcomed in two new students to our class who are already settling in and becoming part of our Crookfur family.

Along with the Primary 7 teachers we have created a ‘Crookfur Values Advent Calendar’. Each day we are focusing on a different school value and completing small actions to make a difference.

In numeracy the calculators and protractors have been continuing with negative numbers and progressed on to applying our knowledge of negative numbers and coordinates in to Cartesian diagrams. We learned how to play ‘Battleships’ and we taught it to other members of the class. We have been thinking of other ways we can apply this knowledge in to other activities.

The compasses are continuing to work with Mrs Fry on working with numbers to a million. We learned new games that we are looking forward to teaching our friends. With Mrs Norman we have been working on algebra and we are already confident in many areas.

Our writing has been focusing on the power of advertising. We investigated different styles of persuasive writing that encourages buyers to buy items they didn’t even know they wanted. Our first piece was to create an advert for our favourite toy, we think Mrs Norman was ready to buy all our products as our writing was very persuasive.

In P.E. we are developing our social dancing skills before we go to our ‘Community Unity’ Ceilidh later this month.

We are pleased that most of our class have now returned after some winter sniffles. Next week we are looking forward to inviting you all in to buy some of our winter crafts.