Today, we have been revising multiplying by 8. We played a game to see who could answer the question the quickest. We enjoyed recalling our times tables.
Multiplying by 8!
Case Study Reflections
Today we completed our case study reflections all about our work on the Maya and chocolate.
Great work everyone! x
Fabulous Fractions
Today in maths we began our first fractions unit. We used coloured paper to deepen our understanding of the denominator. We learnt that the bigger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Crew Challenge
Today in crew 2 of the children mastered making a pyramid with cups but it wasn’t that easy ,had they could not pick them up with their hands. They had to use some string and an elastic band.
A Lovely Moment 📚✨
This week, a Year 4 pupil popped in to show me her independent writing and I couldn’t have been more pleased. I’m not her class teacher, but I do teach her reading, which made it extra special.
She explained how our reading lessons inspired her writing and it was lovely to see her making those links all by herself. It really shows her growing confidence and love of learning.
Miss McLoughlin is so proud of the effort and enthusiasm she’s shown. Moments like this really do make our day!
Well done – keep up the brilliant work! 🌟
Our Independent Diary Up-levelling ✏️
By children in Crew McLoughlin.
While Miss was working with part of the class to redraft a plot point, we were independently up-levelling our Tudor diary writing. Our diary is all about attending a royal Tudor banquet and we have been editing and improving it using ‘ARMS’ to add, remove, move and substitute ideas.
We have been including what we learned in grammar lessons, like expanded noun phrases, pronouns, adverbials, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions and parenthesis.
Our diary writing shows how the Tudors lived their daily lives and how sometimes their punishments didn’t fit the crime. We have really enjoyed revising our plot points and becoming more independent confident editors of our own work. We are proud of how much our writing has improved!
Building our multiplication skills with Base Ten
Crew Gray have been working really hard this week in Maths! We have been utilising Base Ten to support us multiplying 2 digit numbers together.
Sharing and critiquing our wonderful writing!
In Crew Gray this week, we have been sharing our fantastic writing from our recounts of our Tudor banquet with one another. We shared two stars and a wonder for each others work, allowing us to edit and revise them, before we share them with Miss Ramsey our audience for this piece of writing.
Crimes and their punishments during the Tudor times
In Expedition, Crew Gray have been expanding our knowledge on Tudor crimes and their punishments. We ordered the crimes from most severe to least severe, before matching them to what we thought would be a suitable punishment. We were shocked to discover what punishments in the Tudor times were actually like.
Role-Play Sparked creativity
Crew McLoughlin has had a fun and creative learning experience today in order to redraft a plot point of their diary.We took part in an imaginative role-play activity, where we pretended to be a Tudor getting ready to attended a special banquet. We imagined waking up, getting dress and walking into the hall. This is to help us write a diary about our day- what we saw, felt and did.
