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!

Monday

On Monday we did maths.  some of us worked on angles and symmetry. After break we did literacy, then after lunch we did STEAM with Mr Atkinson in the steam room. We finished our sustainable cities we built with Cardboard , tinfoil, paper and tape.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did maths in the morning. After break we had Mr Atkinson, we presented our sustainable cities. We prepared scripts so we knew what to say.   Each group presented at their table.

Wednesday

We had a shorter time in maths and then we went to PE.  In PE we played corner football.  It was fun.  Mrs Allan was very impressed with our goalkeeping skills this week! out of 4 teams, two were tied on 9 points and two were tied on7.  For our warmup, the PE warm-up job people taught us a fun new game.

For writing, we did chronological reports on a person of our choice.  Mrs Allan will read about our parents, Taylor Swift, Ronaldo, Joe Biden, Serena Williams, Sabrina Carpenter and IU.

After lunch, we did art.  We did tinting, by adding colour of our choice to white and then each time we added more to make it bolder.

Thursday 

After break we did ICT.  we were working on algorithms to give instructions for directions and creating monsters. An algorithm is a set of instructions. Debugging is like an update for a game or app. We debugged our monster algorithm so that the drawings looked more like they were meant to.

After lunch, we finished our art.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did maths in the morning we were doing angles and times tables then we had breaktime. after break we had Mr Atkinson and we started our sustainable cities out of cardboard . The challenge was we only had tinfoil, sellotape, scissors and cardboard. We will finish our cities next week. Then we did some comprehension about Richard Branson. After the October holidays, we will do the Grow your £5 challenge which was created by Richard Branson.

Wednesday  

On Wednesday we did some maths in the morning then we went to PE and the P7s came. The P7s led us in fitness exercises in groups.  they helped challenge us with harder exercises but helped with easier ones too.  for writing this week, we used our literacy task to help write a chronological report about Richard Branson.  After lunch we went on Google Docs to test our knowledge. We made text bigger, smaller, different colours and inserted images.  We changed the fonts too and added an emoji to show how we felt about the task. We finished our display of our Makedo models too. finally, we did computer thinking to write instructions on how to draw monsters.

Thursday

Miss Lamb and Mr Wilson came to watch us to maths today and they asked a small group questions about what they liked to do in Maths.

In Health and Wellbeing, we looked at bounceback about worries and catastrophising and watched some stories to help us understand.

In French, we had French instructions about body parts and how to draw them.

Monday

On Monday we did Maths in morning. We read our Maths Week Scotland book called “The Lion’s Share” about fractions. The characters in the book shared a cake by cutting in half lots of times.  Then we did some literacy up until lunch with our Big Cat books.

After lunch we did a bit of French  to learn vocabulary for body parts. Then Mr Atkinson took us to the S.T.E.A.M room and we finished our debates and started looking at renewable energy around Scotland.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we started with Maths, looking at equivalent fractions using fraction walls and multiplication rules.  After that we had Mr Atkinson up until lunch. We were finishing our renewable energy maps around Scotland. Then we got our homework then we did nouns adjectives and verbs and adverbs. We walked around the classroom to find these.

Wednesday

In PE we did bench climbers, mountain climbers, ladders, shuttle runs. Two weeks ago, we did the exercises and set targets for ourselves.  Most of us hit our targets!

We started  our chronological report looking at the history of LEGO.

In the afternoon, we started our Make-do models of castles or magical schools. Some of us worked on microbits to add these to our models.

Thursday

This morning we did handwriting and some comprehension work. We finished our Maths Week Scotland work by cutting the cake on paper to show the tiny fraction the ant got left.

As soon as we finish the blog, we’re finishing our models!

What we’ve learned about fractions:

• One half is one half because it’s got a two at the bottom and it’s in two pieces.
• The numerator is the top and the bottom is the denominator.
• The smaller the denominator, the bigger the fraction (and the bigger the denominator, the smaller the fraction).
• You can do fractions on a number line.
• We learned that not all fractions are equivalent.
• If you’re finding a fraction of a number, you divide it by the bottom number (denominator) To find a fifth of a number, divide by 5!
• The number on the top is the number of the pieces that are shared of coloured, the number on the bottom is the number of total pieces.

Monday

On Monday we did some math in the morning and in the afternoon we had Mr Atkinson in the STEAM room. In the STEAM room each table was given an energy source and we had to research advantages about our group and disadvantages about other groups.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we had Mr Atkinson again and  we used our research from Monday to make posters and scripts. Then we said our debates in the court yard. First it was hydropower against gas and oil and then biomass against nuclear.  We did numeracy too.

In the afternoon we were joining paper and used different techniques like flange, folds and tabs.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we had PE and then we did our imaginative stories in writing. After lunch we did finished the Stem paper joins by adding slots. Then we planned our castles or schools to make next week. We have enough cardboard to build a new life-size school!

Thursday

On Thursday we did reading and literacy in the morning then we did maths. In the afternoon we did some programming with the micro bits to create pictures and words to practise for our cardboard building next week.  We will use microbits and the Make-Do.

Friday

On Friday we did maths.  We did symmetry.  We used the chromebooks, worksheets and tracing paper to help find lines of symmetry and show which shapes had lines of symmetry.  Then in the afternoon we finished our week with PE on the MUGA.

Class blog

Monday

In the morning we copied out our spelling words into our jotters and marked our homework. We did some literacy with Miss Dearie and Mrs Allan.

We tried to finish our silhouettes on our tinting artwork but we ran out of time!

In the afternoon Mr Atkinson came and we finished our energy sources (renewable and non-renewable) Top Trumps cards and played a competition.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we copied our homework for this week we put bookmark on Math and Mrs Allan told us our reading and comprehension.

After break we played top trumps again with Mr Atkinson with a number wheel. Then we watched videos about Scottish renewable energy and looked at maps of different renewable energy types.

We completely finished our art work in the afternoon. Then we used different pencils to shade. Some were thicket than others and some were darker than others, some were softer and blunter.  We used different techniques like stippling (noisy!) and cross hatching.

Wednesday

We did some maths in our groups, some were with Mrs Allan, Miss Dearie and Mrs Nasar.

We did more fitness in PE.

In writing, we focussed on our imaginative character using STEAL. this means:

Speech

Thoughts

Effect on other people

Actions and

Looks.

In the afternoon we did heath and wellbeing about online friends.

Thursday

We did some reading and worksheets with our Big Cat books. We did maths after that.

After lunch we did French with Miss Dearie. We started with the welcome song, then we played a conversation game about age, where we live and what we like.  Then we did an All about me worksheet called c’est moi!

Monday

On Monday we did maths.  we were doing times the 3 and 6 times tables and we did literacy and reading. We went into the STEAM room and we finished our IDL covers. In our IDL jotters we had bits of paper with advantages and disadvantages of  renewable and non-renewable energy.

We practiced our new spalling words using BSL or morse code.

Tuesday

We did Maths and then with Mr Atkinson we finished our renewable and non-renewable matching. Then we made Top Trump cards of energies.  In health and wellbeing we did a growth mindset, which means that we know that we will be able to do something.  A fixed mindset is when you say you can’t do something and you say mad things to your mind.  We also talked about our “stuck stories”.  We also learned a little bit about the Learning Pit.

Wednesday

We did our writing about our magical stories. we did the dilemma and resolution, based on our fabulous setting from last week.  We did art where we tinted light colours to darker colours.  We had a practice sheet before working on the real thing.  In PE, we were running, skipping, jumping and backward walking and trying to keep in touch with everyone else. At the end of PE we were running to find out our pace to run for one minute.

Thursday

On Thursday we did maths word problems we also did literacy  with our Big Cat books and we also did French and health and well being.

In Health and wellbeing we made friendship soup, with ingredients like a bag of kindness; 2 cups of safety; a pinch of arguments; a pint of trust and a handful of helpfulness and a drop of falling out.  We also talked about how to make friends.

Friday

On Friday we were doing  problem-solving and building Olympic medal stand with cubes and working out how many cubes we needed.

In literacy we were learning about collective nouns and proper nouns.  on our worksheets we added capital letters where we needed them for proper nouns and a quiz on the names of collective nouns.

Monday

We started off by writing down what we did at the weekend. We did some maths with Mrs Allan and Miss Dearie. Then we did some literacy in our jotters for the first time!

Tuesday

We had Mr Atkinson and made front covers for our new IDL jotters about energy sources. We did some maths in our groups, working in jotters and learning some maths games.   `

Wednesday

In PE we did different stations and marking off how many we did and next time we will try and beat our target. We did mountain climbers, bench climbers, hoop jumps, ladders and shuttle runs.

In French with Miss Dearie we started to learn about the months of the year.

Thursday

We finished our French balloons for the month of the year and our characters. They look great in our classroom. For writing, we started our magical story and described where our characters were. This is called the setting. We could choose our own, or choose from one of the photos that Mrs Allan showed.

Friday

We chose our new class jobs and checked the photographs for our blog. In Literacy we did some reading and learned about adverbs and adjectives. We finished some work on our Big Cat books.