Monday

In the morning we copied down our spelling words for homework. After that we did literacy and maths.  After lunch we went to the steam room with Mr Atkinson where we were learning about energy.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did maths and some people learned function machines with square numbers.  After lunch we got our flu vaccinations then the reading buddies had their first meeting . the others got our Make £5 Grow display ready.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we did our Maths and then we did PE.  We did modern dance to “Bye Bye Bye”. We were brilliant and it was so much fun!

Then we did some writing: we made our own instructions about something we liked. Mrs Allan had Eco committee after lunch so we had Miss Biggart for RME and we learned about Sikhism, then we worked on the shopping ls its for Make £5 Grow.

 

Thursday

In the morning we did some literacy about our Big Cat books and also some spelling. After break we had maths and we learned some new maths games. We finished off our Guru Naka sequencing and tried to finish our shopping lists and logos for our companies.

 

Friday 

We were at the Science centre today! We had our snack first and then explored the Second Floor which was mostly about renewables and energy.  We went to Electric Detectives.  We talked about what electricity is and what materials are conductors or insulators.  Then we made  circuits and it was exciting. We had lunch and went to Bodyworks.  lots of us went on a big hamster wheel, some of us tried the running track and some pedalled bikes. Lots of us enjoyed the acupuncture board too! On the way home, we had a sing-song of “The Wheels on the Bus”.  When we came back we wrote this blog and checked our photographs.

Monday

On Monday we did literacy and used the Comp Box for the first time this year. After lunch we had Mr Atkinson. We finished our posters about Renewable Energy and we were changing the school to Renewable Energy and we had a live lesson about wave energy.

 

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did some literacy in the morning at lunch we had we did some maths doing 4 digit calculation. With Mr Atkinson, we drew scientists and showed what metaskills they would need.  Our focus was curiosity and creativity and we watched a video about them. At the end of the day we finished our reading. Mrs Dowse (Sophia’s mum) came in and did a lesson about her job.  She works for a company called Galileo which plans wind turbines.  She showed us a cool video of a special truck moving a wind turbine blade. It was the first one to be moved like this in Scotland.

 

Wednesday

On Wednesday we had maths in the morning doing subtraction 4 digit numbers. After that we had PE. In PE we did Scottish dancing with a partner called the Gay Gordons. It was very fun. After break we did writing and we were doing instructions about making diyas from last week. Then after lunch we did some reading.

 

 

 Thursday

In maths we did function machines and algebra. We learned to work out letters instead of numbers.  After break we did literacy and we did handwriting and reading and our Comp Box.  After lunch we watched a presentation about Sikhism and watched a video about Sikhism. We looked at what was inside a Gurdwara and learned about what Sikh people might wear as part of their faith.

 

Monday

In the morning we did some reading with our reading groups and we did some comprehension. After break we did some maths with Miss Daly, then we went into our maths groups. Then after lunch we did some RME with Mrs Allan. We did a lesson on Diwali which is a festival of light and watched a video about Prisoner Release Day, which is why Diwali is celebrated by Sikh families.   After that we went down to the steam room with Mr Atkinson. We were working on ways to make Crookfur a better school by putting solar panels on the school and putting wind turbines near the school to power it.

 

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did some maths in the morning with our groups. After break we did writing, we had to make a recipe for a spooky potions. Then after lunch, we made candles for Diwali called diyas.  we used cupcake holders for the base. Then we made a spring out of paper then draw a flame out of more paper.

Wednesday

In the morning, we did maths with our groups before we went to P.E.

In P.E. we played some Hallowe’en games like zombie tig, cats, scorpion, spider tig and pumpkin patch. After break, we did some science with Miss Ross and we continued what we started with Mr Atkinson. After lunch, we worked on ideas for make £5 grow in our groups and we did some research about what we could make.

Thursday

First, we did some literacy using our Big Cat books. We did some maths before we sorted our work into our take home folders – have a look at our brilliant jotters and worksheets! In the afternoon we did some mummy eyes Hallowe’en art.

 

Friday

Today we worked on bar graphs. Some of us started the surveys that we will use next week. We sorted our take home folders and had assembly. We looked through LOTS of blog photos too.  We’ve had a busy week!