This week as part of our Mining Learning Journey, we made elevators from K’nex. We have to make elevators over 30cm that could hold a rubber. It was difficult because there were so many pieces and sometimes we had to check for spares. You had to make three different parts: the carriage, the tower and the pulley system.

We also started our work on our Summer of Sport Learning journey.  We began with some research and notemaking about the Commonwealth Games that are being held in Glasgow. We made notes about the venues, the mascot, the medals and the sports. We will use our notes to make a new text of our own choice – google slides, docs, a poster or a leaflet.

This week, P5a had our first of four Bible Alive sessions, where we will explore stories from the Old Testament.  The sessions have lots of opportunities for the class to act out or mime parts of the stories and we will learn some BSL in the “Talk and Sign” sections too.

We had two nice ladies coming to teach us about Bible Alive and they’re coming every Wednesday. For our writing then we did a recount of the story of Noah. (LR)

They taught us about Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Joseph, Isaac, Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel and we were acting like people and doing stuff (MM)

We learned about the Old and the New Testament (EA)

We also completed some Health and Wellbeing lessons this week.  We talked about our favourite things that our bodies can do and how we can have positive body image.

In Health and Wellbeing, we were focussing on emotions and what can control them.  On a worksheet we looked at different emotions and what might help. (LR).

We did some silent graffiti to get some ideas from other people about it (HA).

The emotions were joy, sadness, anger, disgust and fear (IMcW)

Welcome back to the P5a blog! We hope you enjoy reading about what we have be exploring with Mr Atkinson in his Learning Journeys.

Last term we finished our cost of tourism Learning Journey which has helped us to learn about different parts of the world. We explored the links between travelling and the impact tourism can have on the environment. Mr Atkinson also helped us to translate  different types of vehicles and common phrases that you might use at an airport into French. The class was then challenged to construct modes of transport using K’Nex and create labels for them in French. As we become more confident with how to read and write different directions in French we then created maps of towns and wrote key locations in French. Working with partners, we provided instructions for our friends to see if they could navigate around our drawings and list the places they could visit. Afterwards we investigated which areas and countries around the world speak French and through applying our knowledge of time we calculated the time differences between these locations. We also solved Maths questions about time to find out durations of flights and how to convert 12 and 24 hour time. Equipped with all of this knowledge we then considered how you would organise a trip to Paris. In groups we discussed the different travel options,  researched famous places tourists would want to see, reflected on how long it may take to reach each place and how much time would be needed to eat at locations. Finally we compared the cultural differences between Scotland and France.

After returning from the holidays we have started our new Learning Journey, Earth’s Resources. In class we have been learning about the properties of different types of rocks and we have been pretending to be geologists by going outside and looking for unusual stones.

This week, we started our work on the Scottish Junior Forester Award.  We will have outdoor learning on a Thursday afternoon to meet the 6 areas:

• Tree and plant identification
• woodland habitats
• habitat creation
• woodland management
• forestry ambassadors
• managing risk

This week, we talked about the activities that we’d like to do and then used natural resources to create art in small groups.

This week, we learned about the Easter story.  We sequenced the main events and wrote about it using our own words.

On Friday, we completed a Kapla Easter challenge to help create a conveyor belt to transport eggs without breaking them.

We also made some Easter bunny art using mixed media.

Today was Eid celebration day at Crookfur!

Lots of us wore cultural or party clothes to celebrate! We listened to an English cricketer read a story called “Under my Hijab” that Mrs Nasar had recommended.  At Assembly, Mrs Nasar, Mrs Rasul and three Primary 7 pupils told us about Eid-al-Fitr and Jummah club.

In the afternoon, we made Eid pop up cards.

Today we used Scratch and we made some animations.  We were working out how to do things and practice (IR)

Today with Mr Atkinson we were making adverts about going to France and the things that you can do using IMovie (AMc)

Yesterday we made Google Slides showing how to be safe online (IMc)

Yesterday we were doing google Slides about digital citizenships (AG).

Recently we used light and dark colours to show shadow on pixel art (FA).

This week, we have been focussing on capacity and volume.

We have estimated, measured and refined our estimates for specific volumes. We also used our partitioning skills to convert millilitres and litres. Practicing it first in mental maths helped a lot!

We had a busy World Book Day – especially our Reading Buddies! They helped create the activities used to celebrate across the school, staffed the book swap and delivered the book tokens to everyone.

First, we took part in the Footy and Booky Quiz online.

As part of the Reading Buddies suggested activities, we re-created scenes from children’s books.  We made the props ourselves too.

Can you match the book to the photograph?

Peter Rabbit x 2

Matilda

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Tom Gates

Little Red Riding Hood

Dog Man

Some of us worked at home on the Story in a Jar/Box activity too. They are all on display at the front of our school.