EWHCF Class of 2021

Sports day

On Tuesday it was sports day and it was very fun. We all did activities and races. The teachers did a three legged race and some of the Mums and Dads also did a race.

Potatoes

We have been growing potatoes it was really fun and we all went out and watered them. Them on Wednesday the potatoes had fully grown and we found lots of potatoes then weighed them.

Art

In Art we made owls for our flight topic and we drew them on Wednesday and we are going to paint them this Wednesday, using different textures to create the feathers.

Volume(maths)

In Maths we were learning about volume we all got in groups and did different stations. One of them was doing a quiz on the laptop converting between ml and l including fraction. The other ones included different types of estimating and measuring.

PE

This week in PE have been working on our team work in rugby ,we also have been playing small games of rugby in four different teams called the blue team, the red team, yellow and green.

Social studies

In Social Studies, we have been making our own Anderson shelters. They are all different shapes and my groups looks like a space ship! We need to fit 4 teddies in our shelters to represent the family members.

Crookfur’s got talent auditions

All of the houses have been taking part in auditions for the talent show. We can’t wait to see how everyone

Growing Potatoes

This week we have planted potatoes as part of a Grow Your Own Potatoes competition. We will keep checking on them and looking after them until June!

Thursday was World Book Day and we took part in lots of different activities to celebrate this.

In the morning we took part in paired reading with Primary 2s. It was fun and nice to have an opportunity to read out loud and share a story.

All of the classes in the school wrote a part of a story which got passed all the way from Primary 1 to Primary 7. It was read over the tannoy at the end of the day. We really enjoyed hearing the story once it had been put together.

In Literacy, we worked in groups named after books. We took part in a quiz and earned points for answering questions and working well together!

There was also a treasure hunt around the school to find a letters that would spell out a word. We look forward to finding out the winner.

In PE we have continued to develop our skills for badminton. We have been doing rallies and keepy-ups to improve our co-ordination and ability to aim at targets.

Some of our learning this week:

In Maths the cubes have been learning about rounding and estimating.

In Literacy we have been practising using STEAL to create characters.

In PE we have been learning about badminton

In ICT we have been creating a leaflet about a synagogue .

In Social Studies we have been learning about World War 2 and how the war changed people’s lives.

In Music we have been listing to music that was popular in World War 2 and visualising who would have listened and what it would make people feel like.

Here are some pictures of us developing our badminton skills:

Some of our learning this week in P5a:

Literacy

In literacy we have been doing characterization and using our STEAL skills to find the difference between direct characterization and indirect characterization

Says

Thoughts

Effect on others

Actions

Looks

Maths

In Maths the cylinders have been learning 3-digit multiplication with carrying

In Maths the cubes have been learning about time and have planned a route from Glasgow to other places in Scotland back to Glasgow .

We finished the week by getting VERY muddy in the mini mudder challenge. Here are some pictures:

This week in Maths we have been learning about angles including right, acute, obtuse, straight and reflex. The whole class have been doing zappers to help us remember our times tables but we have been practicing our 4 and 6 times tables.

Also the Cubes have been learning about time like 24 hour clocks and am and pm. The Cylinders have been identifying multiples and factors. The Spheres have been focusing on multiplication and the Cones have been learning about using money and calculating change.

Since our topic is WWII we have been reading Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo and the reason we are reading it is because it is about two boys called Tucky and David who are getting evacuated from London in WWII.

In Drama since our topic is WWII we have been acting out what it would be like if you were listening to the wireless on the 3^rd of September 1939 at 11:15am to say that the war has been declared because Hitler and his troops have invaded Poland.

In Social Studies we have been making houses, posters and characters made out a collage of paper to make people from the 1930s.

In Science we have been making circuits to make light bulbs and motors and buzzers go with conductors and batteries. We also learned the scientific symbols for the components.

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Here is a gallery of some of our drama:

This week P5a have been doing lots of fun activities that we would like to share with you.

Art:

In art we have been working on calendars that show each of the different seasons. We had to draw a silhouette of a tree, and separate the back into quarters and colour them the colours that represent each of the seasons.

PE:

With Miss Lloyds in PE we have been developing our hand ball skills and on Friday with Miss Bishop we have started working on badminton.

Maths:

In Maths the Cubes have started a new topic which is division and the cylinders are working on area. 

On Monday we went on the stage and performed our McTivty in front of our parents and carers.

We had lots of fun doing our show, it was a nativity with a Scottish twist we hope that all the people that came to watch enjoyed it!!

This week in Maths, the Cubes finished off our area topic and during the last question we had to make 20  50cm x 50cm squares and then make a 1 m² square and completed questions from a textbook using them.

In PE we have been learning about netball we have been working on our team work and played matches. We have been put into teams and there have been different captains each week.

In ICT we have been creating different types of games by programming the Kodus and other objects.

Primary 5a have been thinking about the wellbeing indicators: Safe, healthy, active, nurtured, achieving, respected, responsible and included. We have created a Shanarri flower display showing the indicators and how these are met in our lives at school. We also played the snail game to learn more about the indicators.

We have been practicing singing and identifying the solfa note names. We sang ‘Seagull Seagull’ and then identified what each note would be. Working in groups we then worked out how to play the tune on a glockenspiel or xylophone.