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Friday 1st May – Health and Wellbeing

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)

 

 

 

   

Friday 24th April – Scottish Junior Forester Award

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.

 

Easter time! Friday 2nd April

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.

Eid Celebration Day – Friday 27th March

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.

 

 

Friday 20th March – using technology in our learning

 

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).

Friday 13th March – Numeracy and Maths

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!

Thursday 5th March: World Book Day

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.

 

Friday 27th February – Weight and Technologies

This week, we have continued our work on weight.  Some of us used the balance scales to weigh classroom items. This meant we had to use addition and multiplication skills too!

This week, we started our Technologies Learning Journey.  We have been learning about gaming and consoles from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. We have used our research skills, sequenced information, created a short profile and compared information with modern gaming using a Venn diagram.

 

In later weeks, we will do some coding, explore internet safety, investigate how batteries work and create some pixel art.

 

 

 

Friday 20th February: Maths and Lunar new Year

This week, we made fortune tellers to celebrate Lunar New Year.  We wrote “Happy New year” on the outside in Chinese characters and then chose numbers for the inside.  Then, we created some new year messages.  The number 0 was definitely the most challenging!

 

 

In Numeracy and Maths we have started exploring weight.  We used concrete materials (the thousands, hundred and tens) to partition (split) to help us prepare for converting kilograms and grams.

We played games to help us practice our weighing sills before we use the equipment next week.  There were lots of different types of scales.

 

Thursday 12th February – Health and Wellbeing (PE)

In the gym hall, we have been doing gymnastics. We have been practicing balances, jumps and rolls. It’s important to land on two feet from a height. On the box, we could use our hands to help us land on our knees or feet after using the springboard.

 

 

 

Outside, we have been working on our rugby skills.  We have been working on passing at waist height with our fingers in a W shape.  We played a match in our last lesson. We used tigs instead of tackles.  We had to run fast and work as a team to pass the ball out of our area and touch it down at the line to win a point.