Book Talk – The Great Chocoplot

19th April 2024Kate Thompson

In our book talk lessons this week, we started a new book called “The Great Chocoplot” by Chris Callaghan. First, we started off by completing a jigsaw of the front cover. We then discussed what we thought the book may be about, whether the book would be a fiction or a non fiction book and how we know this. We came up with some fantastic ideas such as “the girl on the front cover might have stole a chocolate bar and they are investigating it. We then read some of the book, text marking any important information and words which we don’t understand. We read around the word and looked at the root word to unpick these words.

Blind food tasting

19th April 2024Kate Thompson

In expedition, we have tried different foods whilst our eyes were shut. We were given each piece of food and used our senses to see if we could figure out what it was. First, we touched the food to see what it felt like, then we smelt the food to see if there were any strong smells to identify and then we tasted it. We guessed tuna because of the smell but we struggled with avocado!

New Reading Challenge! Who will earn a golden ticket?

18th April 2024Laura Hamill

“I’ve got a golden ticket!” – Who will be able to say these 5 magical words by the end of Summer Term?! Crew Hamill have been challenged again to read at home and this time, there will be FIVE winners! The first 5 to reach the golden tickets at the top of our challenge, by reading 30 times, will receive a special reward (that may or may not involve a chocolate baking treat). It’s been so lovely to see the engagement from the children already in this challenge! Lots of children’s names are moving up the oompa loompas and heading towards golden victory!

Blind Taste Testing

18th April 2024Laura Hamill

Today, Crew Hamill continued their hook week investigations into our new expedition by kick starting our DT lessons for this half term with a blind taste test. We all had to close our eyes and were given a selection of different foods that were popular in Ancient Maya. We had no idea what these 5 items were until we had touched them, smelt them and tasted them. Some of us were super brave and made sure we tasted them all! However, lots of us instantly regretted tasting the last food item (chilli pepper!!) and had to run straight to the sink for a drink to cool our mouths down!

Experience Day – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

18th April 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill have loved sinking their teeth into their new writing genre this week! We have begun a narrative on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and after spending a few grammar days focusing on speech in order to be able to include this in our retelling of the story, we have today begun to focus on the section of the film we will be writing about. We began by watching a short clip that was taken from the film, where Charlie and the rest of the Golden Ticket winners enter the room of all things edible! We then recalled what we had watched by sequencing a range of pictures from the clip. Finally, we worked as a crew to chot down lots of vocabulary based on what we had seen. We have created an anchor chart full of brilliant vocabulary words that we can use to really make our writing stand out.

Hook Week(DT)

18th April 2024Tracy Haddock

After getting our wrap ready into dough balls. We then rolled it out and fried it to make the tortilla wrap. We then left it to cool and started to get our ingredients to chop to put in our wrap. Once it was cool we then made our own wrap which we found very delicious

States of Matter

18th April 2024Laura Hamill

We continued our hook week learning by becoming scientists! We discussed that being a scientist means that we gather and use information to make observations and create conclusions and explanations in order to understand our world and how it works. We were then introduced to the States of Matter – Solids, Liquids and Gases. We discussed what each of these were and their main properties before organising different materials based on their state of matter. It was interesting to discover the amount of different solids, liquids and gases we come across in every day life!