As part of our Summer of Sport learning journey, we explored the rhythm and instruments of Brazilian samba music, because they are in Group C of the World Cup with Scotland!

I liked all the instruments, but my favourite was the drums because you just had to put your hands on it and make a beat. some of the names for the instruments were hard but in the end we got to hear all the sounds. (LR)

I really enjoyed learning about all the different instruments.  My favourite one was the tambourine because it made a really loud sound (AM)

I really liked the reco-reco because of the beats it made.  It made me feel really good (FS).

We also met our new P1 buddies this week.  We showed our school values beautifully and gave them a letter with some information about us.  We’ll meet them again in August!

This week, we had a Rugby taster on Monday as part of Sports Week. We developed our reflexes and did some passing too.

In PE, we played a (modified!) game of Kabaddi, which is a traditional game from South Asia.

As part of World Cup and Commonwealth Games day, we started by creating Top Trump cards about the World Cup stadia.  We researched their capacity, when they were built, their comfort, their importance and how cool they looked.

After, we made Scotland’s match stadia – Hampden, Boston, Miami (and the final stadium in New Jersey!!) using Kapla.

Finally, in the afternoon we did our own version of the World Cup games by rolling dice. If the dice decide, it looks like we’re making it out of the group stage….

We’ve been busy this week!

At PE we did lots of sports like javelin and shotput (FS).

I was really good at the shotput, I almost got it outside the MUGA (SS)

We were doing long jumps in PE (HA)

In Bible Alive, we were finishing the story of Joshua and the battle.  I got to be Joshua. They walked around the castle for seven days and then walked for an extra day and then blew a funny horn (LR)

In Bible Alive people were acting out at the front.   I was one of the servants that helped carried a gold box for the King (SK)

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)

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).