Thank you to Scarlett who shared a ballet routine with us during our morning crew. She has spent lots of time doing dance and was delighted to share it with us.
Category : Crew Shields 22/23
Simple, compound and complex sentences
This afternoon, we have been consolidating our knowledge on simple, compound and complex sentences.
Simple – contains one clause
Compound – joins 2 simple sentences together using coordinating conjunctions.
Complex – joins clauses together using subordinating conjunctions.
We are doing our best to fill any gaps on learning before we complete assessments next week.
Poetry – The Miner
During our expedition lesson, we have been annotating a poem about mining and unpicking vocabulary.
We had a book talk session so that we could discuss the poem and help with our understanding. In addition, we have generated phrases and words that we could use when it comes to writing their own poetry in preparation for our Summer final product.
Notation
During music today, the children have been learning about different notes in music. We’ve learned about the crotchet, minim, quavers, semi quavers and semibreve.
We spent some time clapping rhythms to help use understand the difference in the notes. Children then had to work in small groups to compose their own rhythms using some of the difference notes before performing to the rest of the class. They did a great job with these. Check them out for yourselves…
Sharing our favourite songs
As part of our music case study, the children have been given the opportunity to write their favourite song on a piece of paper and place it in a cup.
During our end of dy crew, we choose a song, listen and then decide whose favourite song it might be. We definitely know some of our crew well as we’ve managed to guess who it belongs to.
We’re looking forward to hearing all the rest of the songs over the next few weeks.
Another Cirque du Soleil
This morning it was the turn of Esme to share her interests out of school. Esme, just like Kaitlynn, regularly attends dancing comps and dances in different styles. She was going to show us some tap dancing but she changed her mind.
Lovely to see all the talent Crew Shields have.
Adapting song/music
Yesterday, we continued with unpicking poetry (a song) and worked as mini crews to rewrite it and adapt the verses. We want to be able to generate as many ideas as possible so that when we write our own poetry for the final product, we have lots of background knowledge to pull from. Some great collaboration and communication demonstrated within mini crews.
Cirque du Soleil – Kaitlynn
On Thursday morning, we continued with a crew member showing some of their talents.
It was the turn of Kaitlynn who is an avid dancer. She often takes parts on comps and shares her successes the us.
After Kaitlynn showcased her talent, the question of the day was: Does Kaitlynn even have a spine? What do you think?
Future artist…
This morning in crew we had the pleasure of viewing the art work of Kaylum and we have decided that children will have more opportunities to share their interests with us.
Kaylum is a budding artist and often brings in stuff for our tabletop display. He has brought in his sketchbook from home today and we are truly blown away. I’m sure you will as well.
We have set Kaylum a challenge – Can he create us a sign for our door that says Crew Shields surrounded by images that reminds him of people in the crew. Watch this space…
Sport day prep…
This half term, children will be preparing for sports day so they’ve started with the basics – running.
