Who can get the tallest, free standing tower? 👏🏼
We had to work together in mini crews and use our knowledge of mass and length in order to balance and create our own freestanding tower.⚖️📏 This was tricky… and even trickier with a 3 minute timer on the countdown! 📟
Our winning crew tower measured 54cm! 😃
Crew Shields have really enjoyed being able to design animals that would be able to survive in the rainforest. They explored merging some animals together and ensured they had the required adaptions to survive.
Today we have used Jess French’s brilliant book ‘Forests’ to understand some more information on deforestation, helping us answer our guiding question!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crew Marsh PE days have stayed the same: Thursday and Friday.
Crew Marsh have been learning french numbers up to 10. Quiz us to see if we can remember!
