Gymnastics

We are learning forward rolls this week. We are also doing seal rolls, teddy bear rolls and working with a partner well.

Phonics and Spelling

One of our spelling groups are learning about suffixes and the tricky spelling rules for adding -able to the ends of words.

Camping Skills

We used our TWMTDW skills to decide what are the most and least important items to take on a camping trip.

Writing

Tony is back! We tried a new way to plan our stories. We tried to include a BIG PROBLEM in our stories and a BIG SOLUTION! We looked at how other authors do this and we used our storytelling skills to improvise some stories before we wrote our own.

Spring Chicken the Musical

Our show Spring Chicken the Musical happened on Thursday afternoon after weeks of preparation and hard work.

From rapping bunnies to solo singers; foxy grannies to flocking sheep, P4B did an outstanding job of bringing the characters to life.

Congratulations to all involved and an extra special thanks to everyone at home for supporting with lines, songs and costumes.

Spring Chicken the Musical!

We have been working hard on our production of Spring Chicken the Musical. We have one week of rehearsals left!

Can we ask the parents again for any big bits of cardboard for the show?

We are getting excited!

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Miss Hassan

Miss Hassan has two days left in our class. We are very sad to see her go. She has helped us with our learning in Maths, Phonics, Writing, RME and Health and Wellbeing

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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 P4B for 3 periods of IDL each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.

We started this year investigating Energy. Starting with Kinetic Energy, we then moved on to learn about Solar, Wind, Hydro and Wave power. We were then able to apply our knowledge in practical tasks when we visited Glasgow Science Centre. All of this prior learning meant that when we moved onto Learning Journey 2 and investigated Climate Change, the class were experts in renewable power which really impressed our visitor who as a Scottish Government advisor on Climate Change, came to answer all of the children’s questions and give them some practical tips on how as a school we can tackle Global Warming.

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.

As we shared in our Open Afternoon, Learning Journey 3 is all about creating Board Games using sustainable materials. The children have been creating Design Briefs and will work over the coming weeks on bring their ideas to life. I have been so impressed with their Problem Solving and Critical Thinking skills throughout this process.

Numeracy

We have been working on the concept and measuring of area. We used these examples in the class to compare different ways of measuring area, and which one is the most useful and accurate.

This was a really interesting example of using half squares to create a design with an area of 3 and a half squares.

Growth Mindset

We are about halfway through our juggling challenge to help us develop and talk about a growth mindset. Every single person is making progress – we know because we watched our first attempt videos again today!

Design and Engineering

We used Spheros as our engine to create vehicles. We explored the terms manoeuvrable and stable and tried to design vehicles that could move in all directions and survive the inaugural Crookfur Sphero Battle Royale!

Rome Vs Scotland

We looked at the start of the Roman Empire and how far they spread across the world. We thought about how they did it ( they used their mighty armies)

Fitness

After a short block of Golf practise we have begun to work on our fitness in PE.  We will work on stamina, strength and flexibility.

Art

We continued to work on our collage techniques. This week we observed fields and the art of Rebecca Jenkins to create collages with different textures and colours.

PE

We are learning how to use a golf club and a putter club. We are trying to be accurate when we putt.

Literacy

We are learning how to write instructions. We learned how to make paper dolls then wrote instructions about how to do it. Tony Sparkles made some too but he wrote a story instead of instructions!

Art

We are learning how to use collage techniques to make art. We used glue spreaders and a reverse cutting technique to make winter trees from observations we made.

Technology/Coding

We used block coding to move our self designed and built robots. They had to stop on a target and carry some cargo.

We debugged the code by adjusting the speed and duration that the robots moved. We learned from our mistakes!

Printmaking

As part of our learning we have been doing a few different types of printmaking. We made some block prints using a blending technique and the marks we made were a combination of the patterns we have been using. The colours inspired some to create landscapes and sunsets. Beautiful!

Technology

We worked together and used out Teamwork Makes the Dream Work skills to build Knex from instructions. Next week we will be using creativity and problem solving to make robot vehicles  – because now we know how Knex works.

Writing

We were back writing narrative stories this week. We are working on characters who kind and unkind and how we can show that through what they say.

Numeracy

We learned 6 new games this week to help us with our addition and multiplication. And when to take chances!

Phonics

As well as writing in jotters we learn our spelling words in other ways too like…

Health and Wellbeing

We have been looking at the way we think and what we can do to help us get along better with ourselves and others. We looked at different scenarios where there might be different amounts of blame for people. We also realised that sometimes things happen because of bad luck or circumstances.

Art

We have been using different things to make lines and patterns to make art. This week we used chalk to make imaginative drawings on black paper. We also used a Doodle Grid to draw exactly what we saw using our observation skills.

Maths Week Scotland

We found a mistake in the book Mummy Math! It said a cone only had one face (it has two – one curved and one flat).  We investigated which shape only has one face (and we looked at edges and vertices) We wrote an email to the publishers to suggest they replace the cone with a sphere because it only has one face.

We also played lots of shape maths games and competed fairly.

We made large frames of 3D objects using our construction area.