Miss Marsh decided she wanted to wake up this morning by challenging us to a water crew challenge. We had to pass the water over our shoulder to a crew member who was holding a cup. Luckily no one got wet and lose much water in the process!
Thank you Summer for the great photos.
Crew Mcloughlin have impressed with their HoWL scores today especially at how collaboratively they have worked. It is so lovely to see them helping each other to get smart in all lessons. 🤩
This morning Crew MI took part in their Caring Crew where we talked about who is in our family, who loves us and why our families make us feel safe. We worked in small groups to build back up a jigsaw using a variety of different families then we discussed what we noticed about the pictures thinking about what was the same and what was different. There was some great collaborative working during this activity which was lovely to see. We then drew our families, describing characteristics about each member, what they are like, what they do and what they enjoy. We then shared these things with the rest of the crew. During our debrief, we thought about what our jobs are as a member of Crew MI and we made pledges for moving forward. Crew was fantastic this morning! Great job Crew MI 🙂
In our expeditionary learning we took part in a grammar lesson thinking about figurative language. We explored similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. We worked collaboratively to build our own examples linking them to space and linking to the chapter we have been unpicking in our reading lessons.
A great day in MI, our HOWL score was 3.5 🙂 Lets keep this up MI.
Crew Welburn had an exciting week in expedition last week – we’d had a visitor in our classroom! The visitor had left some footprints leading around the room, which we used to draw a map, and he’d even been caught on the cameras! It was very exciting and we spent lots of time searching the classroom to see if he was still there!
KS1 visited Lincoln Castle last week to witness first hand what lies within the castle walls. They had an amazing time exploring the castle, seeing the fire breathing dragon and making their own shields. it was wonderful to see the children so excited about their expedition, ’What lies within the castle walls’.
Could all children in Y1 and Y2 please ensure they return their books bags so we can ensure they all have their new RWI books ready for Friday 😊 Thank you!
This week we have started looking at Jazz music and how it was important during World War II. We identified the instruments used and began to learn the song ’We’ll Meet Again’, originally performed by Dame Vera Lynn. Keep an eye out for a sneak peek of our further practise of the song in the coming week!
In Year 1/2 we started to look at becoming musicians by being introduced to different percussion instruments. We started off by clapping and repeating patterns before then trying to repeat patterns using our percussion instruments. We had so much fun and loved hearing all the different sounds made by the instruments!
We started our musical learning journey this week by listening to and appraising a piece of music by composer Gustav Holst, that was created to represent the character of the planet Mars. We discussed the instruments used, the tempo and dynamics of the piece before thinking about how Holst used all these elements to portray the characteristics of war usually associated with Mars.
It’s been very busy today as the children have been exploring why we have day and night before recreating the phases of the moon.
During the practical lesson, the children were able to recreate the rotation of the earth on it’s axis and we used torches for the sun. While they completed this task, it helped them understand day and night and why our shadows move throughout the day.
After lunch, the children discovered more about the phases of the moon and were able to recreate each stage. Of course, it was made even better when they could eat the moon at the end.
