“Welcome back to our fabulous blog, we hope you enjoy it!” Sarah

“Today we did a table swap and saw who is sitting with us. Mrs Hobson made a game of this, she described everyone and we had to guess who the person was.” Fraser

“On Wednesday we made bird feeders, using lard and bird seeds. This will help nature and will help us achieve the RSPB Wild Challenge.” Amara

“We have also written Unbelievable Stories about Summer. Mine was one and a half pages long!” Samarth

“Also for our Wild Challenge, we went on a plant safari. We had to describe what we found. I found spiders and a few ants!” Basmah

“We have also learned more about time, like quarter past and half past. I did pretty well with this.” Lucas

Luckily, a new student joined our class this week and we are so happy she is here! She has told us she has had a nice first week at Crookfur.

Tune in next week for more!

Welcome back to our wonderful blog! This week we have been learning about Eid, read on to find out more.

“This week, we learned how to write our names in Arabic. We made name posters. I’m really proud of mine.”  Samarth

“I put a panther and a bike on mine because I like riding my bike and I am proud of it too!” Hannan

“On Wednesday, we made acrostic poems about Ramadan. Samarth and I are going to read these at assembly!” Waniyyah

“After break, me, Mila and Hannan taught the class some Arabic words. Such as, school, hello and car. I felt confident doing this.” John

“Today I got henna put on my hands by Basmah’s mum. I think it’s really beautiful, she did a good job.” Amelia

“This is called mendhi, I picked the pattern with lots of dots and swirls. It’s really beautiful!” Amara

“Later today, we are going to be having an Eid party! I feel excited!” Sarah

“Welcome back to our fantastic blog! Get ready for your minds to be blown!” Amber

“For the past few weeks, we have been preparing for our show  Spring Chicken, that has just been.  I was little bit scared for the show but at the end was very happy I did it!” Fergus

“I played Chickalita and was very happy I got the part and I tried my best. I hope everyone enjoyed the show! My favourite song was, I’m Gonna Sing. I had a few solos and they were fun to do.” Isla

“When I came home, my parents said I did really well. My favourite bit was performing Heaven Help a Chicken Farm!” Fraser

“My favourite part was singing Number One because it was really funky and I also liked Heaven Help a Chicken Farm!” Freya F

“When I was a cockerel on stage, my parents cried! When we sang I’m Gonna Sing, my auntie almost started crying!” Lucas

“I was very happy when we finished the show and I felt proud!” John

Take a look at our cool costumes below!

“Hi there, we haven’t spoken to you in a few weeks, we have some things to catch you up on!” Samarth

“Yesterday we had visitors to tell us how they use Metaskills at work. They were an artist, a BBC News presenter and an engineer. The artist was my  favourite, as he described how he made a sculpture that is in a park in London.” Waniyyah

“My favourite visitor was the BBC News presenter because I like how she talked about how she got that position.” Amber

“Mine was the engineer because I like how he showed us how he works on aeroplanes and I also like that he brought in a mini aeroplane to talk about.” Sarah

“Recently, we have been practising songs and actions for our Spring show. I’m looking forward to the show!” Fraser

“In our Spring Chicken show, there are lots of characters, really good songs and lots of jokes! My character is Mac the collie.” Fergus

“There is main part, called Chickalita and that is my part! I was really happy to get this part!” Isla

“In P.E. we have been doing cricket and practising hitting the ball with the bat. At the end we played a match, there were fielders and batters. It was really fun and a bit hard!” Kiyansh

“In IDL with Mrs Dougall, we were designing a board game using brief number 2 and we had to fix any mistakes we made in order to make the game better. Mine is really colourful and it’s called Rainbow Rusher!” Freya F

“Come back next week for more!” Nimit

“Hello, this week, as it was just two days we have a short blog for you but we hope you still like it!” Lucas

“On Thursday morning, we learned about paragraphs and we were given sentences to match together to make a paragraph. The challenge was to create a subtitle for each one!” Fraser

“This morning, we looked at a new piece of writing called The Manor House and we highlighted words to help us with the story.” Fergus

“We had questions on the board and we worked with our partners to find the information in the text.” Amara

“I magpied some adjectives and verbs for my own spooky story, such as; dark, muttered and slammed.” Isla

“We also wrote text maps based on the spooky story we read.This will help us to write our own stories.” Freya D

“I shared my text map with my friends!” Amelia

“Recently, we also wrote a piece of instructional writing on how to cook an omelette. As a challenge, we had to include Top Tips at the bottom. Such as, serve with a salad!” Samarth

“Today in French, we learned numbers from 1-20.” Yusaf

“Soon we are going to use this information, to write our birthdays in French.” Waniyyah

“Next week, we will learn number 21-31 and learn the months of the year.” Neave

Ciao for now!

“Hi readers, let’s catch up on some big events that have happened in P4a recently!” Samarth

” On Wednesday and Thursday this week we had Open Afternoons! Parents came and joined us for a lesson.” Sarah

“When our parents came in, one of our stations was to design a mythical creature. Mine was the Mosraptis” Fergus

“My favourite station during this lesson, was the thistle art as we got to use chalk pastels and  I had fun with my friends.” Amara

“On Thursday I got to do my favourite station and it was the thistle art. I liked how mine was realistic.” Sarah

“Because of our Burns Topic near Robert Burns Day we hosted a Burns Supper where we had Scottish haggis pastry parcels. We also did some Scottish dancing.” Fraser

“We made pastry parcels with vegetarian haggis inside them. I thought mine tasted good.” Samarth

“After we had haggis, we had shortbread and apple juice. It was really good.” Neave

“When we were eating the haggis, Mrs Hobson put music on and we all sang Three Craws.” Isla

“In maths we are learning about directions like North, East, South and West.” Waniyyah

“In maths we did something called grid references. I really liked it and feel confident about it.” Fergus

“We told our partner directions to follow to see if they would end up in the correct place.” Fraser

“Today in writing we did an instructional piece of writing about how to make an omelette.” Emily

Hi there and welcome to the first IDL Blog of this year. It’s Mrs Dougall here, as you may know, I have a different role this year and I am now responsible for Inquiry Based Learning across P2, P3 and P4.  This means that I complete Learning Journeys with the children, starting with a problem/question and working towards them finding a solution using teacher and child led learning across different aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence.   I now teach P4a for 3 periods of IDL and on of PE each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.

We started this session with an investigation into Energy. We learned about Kinetic, Solar, Wind and Hydro Energy. Our trip to the Science Centre allowed us to apply this learning in a different setting.

We have also fitted in two short blocks of learning about Meta Skills, these are the skills that we use everyday in our learning and our Meta Skills Lessons help us to investigate the skills, apply them in practical situations and recognise the importance of them in our daily learning. These Meta Skills will help equip the children  for the World of Work.

Our first Meta Skills focus was on Creativity and Curiosity and we are currently focusing on Communicating and Collaborating.  The class teachers work with us to apply these skills in all of our learning.

Our second Learning Journey was all about Climate Change. We focused on learning about the impact of Global Warming on the seas.

We also had a visit from a Scottish Government Climate change advisor.

We are about to start a our new learning journey and are all so excited.

Hi readers and welcome back!

We missed you last week because of the storm – crazy eh?

As usual we’ve been really busy this week

In Maths, we were learning more about grid references, finding hidden words and even designing our own grids!

In Literacy, we have been analysing leaflets and magpieing key elements such as bullet point and even subheadings! We are working on our own leaflets all about Robert Burns and are typing these, using Google Slides.

On Friday morning, we went to lunch hall to prepare food for our Burn’s Supper this afternoon. Here we are designing our own haggis pastry parcels. Have a look at our cool designs! We are looking forward to our Burn’s celebration later and will share some photos next week.

Have a lovely weekend!

P4a

Happy New Year and welcome back to our blog!

“This week, we started reciprocal reading.  We made a circle with our chairs to read together. Three people had to look up the dictionary for words that the class wanted clarified. We read about New Year and this way of reading was a bit different.” Samarth

“We learned some new words that we didn’t know and I really liked it!” Sarah

“In Maths, we were learning about area. To work out area you can count squares inside a shape, if the line is curvy on the shape  you only count the squares that are full or half or more.” Neave

“We also played an area game and you to make a shape with a certain area. Some people even created connectives!” Basmah

“Yesterday, we found out our new topic which is about Robert Burns. He was a Scottish poet and we are planning to have our own Burn’s supper!” Abdallah

“We also learned he wrote poems about things that happened in real life, like his poem about a mouse. On his birthday every year, people eat haggis, neeps and tatties.” Lucas

“Yesterday we played a Kahoot game about Burns. It was medium challenging and fun!” Waniyyah

“Today we were planning  ode poems about our favourite things, inspired by Robert Burns.” Amara

“My ode poem is going to be all about football!” Fraser

“In Art, we  added on to our skyline. We had the colours, blue, white and black and we started to paint with white and blue. We mixed them together and when it got darker and darker we added black with the blue.  Next week, we are going to paint a tree in the middle of our picture.” Blair Alba

Tune in next week for more!

Wow, we have been so busy! Read on to catch up on our last few weeks recently, in P4a!

“Do you know why so many people died in the Titanic disaster?” John

“We learned that there were so many reasons combined. It hit an iceberg but also there were not enough lifeboats.” Kiyansh

“The closest ship nearby ignored messages for help!” Zak

“Also in IDL, we made a tinfoil boat, we put them in water to see if they would float. We added blu tac as if it were people, cars and furniture and tested if it would still float.” Isla

“They did float but then we cut a hole into our boats and when we put them in the water, they started filling up  and they sank. This helped us learn what the water was like when it was flowing through Titanic.” Fergus

“Last week, we completed stories based on a John Lewis Christmas Advert. It was about a little boy coming home on the bus and he spotted something fall from the sky.” Amber

“The boy found an alien and a broken spaceship in the forest. We  had to write what might have happened next.” Lucas

“I was proud of my story because I used lots of adjectives and adverbs and read it to the class.” Amara

“On Wednesday in Music , we were playing Christmas songs using instruments.  It was really fun and I really enjoyed it!” Mila

“In Maths, we have been learning about calendars. We had to add information to plan the month of December. We added Christmas Day,  Advent Sundays and other dates.” Basmah

“We also answered questions on an iPad game. I got up to 48 and I really enjoyed it!” Amelia

“In RME, we have been learning about Advent and how it is celebrated in different countries. In Mexico, they have a nativity in the streets and have a pinata every night!” Neave

“We also sequenced the Christmas story. I learned that the wise men visited King Herod before visiting the new born King, Jesus,” Samarth

We look forward to our Christmas party next week. Come back next week for more!