Today we have used Jess French’s brilliant book ‘Forests’ to understand some more information on deforestation, helping us answer our guiding question!
Category : Crew Blogs
Crew Mcloughlin authors ✍🏼
During a critique session, Miss began by modelling how to critique a piece of Y6 writing. We then had confidence to help and work as a crew – this really helped us with how this would look when revising our own writing.
We then focused on our peers’ independent plot point 1 writing. Using the gold and green standards, we assessed how well the writing met the criteria. We then up-levelled some sentences to try and improve cohesion and flow as well as Y6 quality. After we discussed praises, notices and wonders, we returned to our own writing and tried to improve the content and quality. We have loved narrating The Lorax and cannot wait to read it to our audience – Year 3 and 4.
Showing off our moves in dance…
Polar Bear Explorers Club experience day (22.2.22) ❄️🐻❄️
Welcome to the polar bear explorers club! To really immerse the children into their new book, which they are going to be using to write from, we organised the children to work through a few similar missions to what Stella has to. We started the session with children having to infer what was happening through the personal secret envelopes. The children then experienced what a ship would feel like when surrounded by wolves and unicorns. Once arriving at Coldgate (the hall) the children experienced the harbour and a sled ride to the headquarters.
Testing magnets (21.2.22)
Year 3 tested magnets on different materials to see whether they were magnetic or not. We then discussed why we thought the materials were magnetic and the forces at work, such as attracting which is a pull force.
Music Hook (23.2.22) 🎸
Year 3 enjoyed a guitar lesson in the hall with their guitar teacher Mr Smith. They played a range of songs and looked at the notes EGBDF and FACE on the guitar. It was great to hear all of the singing and how far the children had come in when playing a musical instrument.
PE days
Crew Marsh PE days have stayed the same: Thursday and Friday.
French crew
Crew Marsh have been learning french numbers up to 10. Quiz us to see if we can remember!
Crew Shields – 22/2/22
Crew Shields started the morning with a crew building activity. It was lovely to see children who wouldn’t normally take a lead role direct their peers and suggest ideas.
Crew Challenge – Leaning tower of Feetza – Who can make the tallest, free standing tower with shoes.
Shop Keepers of Carcroft!
The children within Crew FE have had a brilliant time in their own class shop. They have worked hard to use their fred fingers to sound out words to write a shopping list. They had to think about all the different things you could buy in a shop. They then used this list to shop for the items using the shopping trolleys.
The children had to walk around the shop collecting the items on their lists before paying the shop keeper using pennies. We were kind to each other and supported one another by sharing the items out and ensuring everyone was able to have some shopping.
We have had a great time!
