Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.
Mr Atkinson’s comment:
I have been so impressed with the children’s wonderful acts of kindness both in class and outdoors as part of Anti-Bullying Week. With the Scottish weather becoming more unpredictable please can pupils ensure that they bring appropriate clothing for P.E. in the MUGA and the outdoor learning sessions.
In addition, you can see some of the activities P4A undertakes on the school Twitter page: https://twitter.com/CrookfurPrimary?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Literacy and English
Isla – This week in writing we wrote another formal letter. Mr Atkinson created a scenario whereby a building company wanted to construct offices in our playground, MUGA and woodland area. He challenged us to create a letter of complaint using facts, opinions and some persuasive arguments.
Maira – In our letters we focused on including a range of openers such as firstly, secondly, in my opinion and finally.
Emma – This week we used dictionaries to help us to understand the definition of our new “or” spelling words.
Zak – We have been using our “or” spelling words to help practise our handwriting.
Numeracy and Maths
Chenul – This week our group started learning about the links between fractions and dividing. This helped us to calculate the quantity of a number.
Freya – We have been learning how to solve 3 digit addition calculations involving carrying. Some of our activities included working in pairs and creating our own calculations as well as solving word problems.
Yousaf and Hayyan – Our group have been revising place value and how to solve 2 digit calculations by using carrying.
Outdoor Learning
Daniel – As part of the RSPB Bronze Wild Challenge award we took part in a Minibeast safari. This involved searching under logs, amongst leaves and around the trees. After we found beetles and worms we made sure that we carefully returned the creatures back to their habitats.
Emily M – Whilst we were exploring the woodland we created ‘journey sticks.’ We made these by collecting materials from around the school and then connecting them to our wooden sticks.
Health and Wellbeing
Sarah M – As part of Anti-Bullying week some Primary 6 pupils came to our class to talk about the importance of kindness. Afterwards, we created kindness banners which will be displayed around the school.
Steven – This week we were developing our rallying skills in tennis. We were challenged to try to hit the ball in the direction of where our partner was standing and then they would return the ball by aiming and hitting it back.
RME
Tia – We have been learning about the story of Jonah and the Whale with Mr McMillan. One of our activities involved ordering and sequencing events that happened from the story.
