As part of our expeditionary learning this week, we learnt about dissolving and the science behind it ⚗️👨🏻🔬👩🏻🔬We learnt lots of scientific keywords 🧠 If a soluble solute (like coffee) is added to a solvent (like H2o) it will dissolve and create a solution, however if a solute is insoluble, like sand, it will create a mixture. We even went further to experiment different conditions with the rate a solute would dissolve at. We found hot water and movement was the best condition to dissolve the coffee the fastest. Crew Mcloughlins classroom certainly smelled lovely after this experiment ☕️
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Crew Boswell – 12th November 2021
It’s been a busy week for us in Crew Boswell as we’ve looked to push on from our great first week back. Here’s some of the highlights to give you a glimpse as well as our quote for the week…
“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.”
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Maths Week
This week we have been enjoying a range of activities and games in maths. From multiplication to number bonds and sequences to fractions there has been plenty of learning going on and some real excitement about developing our skills in maths.
Expedition
We have continued to look at states of matter during our expedition lessons and have looked at how we can alter the time it takes for solutes to dissolve. There were some surprises during our investigation but these have certainly been some of the more exciting sessions that we have had. Did you know that rice is insoluble in water but does change the colour of the water?
Crew
We are continuing to develop our teamwork in crew through the use of COJO and Scotty’s Heroes as well as our daily reflections about our learning. It has been great to see us taking more time to support each other and this was most evident when trying to learn our Bulgarian numbers. They’re a lot harder than they look! This also gave us a little insight into how it feels trying something unfamiliar and the importance of having support to help us to get things right. We’re sure that we can build on this throughout the year!
Our Weekly Reflection
We have had a lot of success this week (including some extra break time for beating our HoWL score from last week) and there has been plenty of praises within the crew. Here are just a few of the praises and wonders that we have discussed:
“I praise Ivan for focusing on his learning today and completing our work in expedition.”
”I praise Freya for showing us how to be a good sportsperson when we don’t win at something.”
“I praise everyone for trying to learn a little Bulgarian.”
”I praise Gabriel for making us laugh a lot today.”
”I wonder if we can help each other to focus by not talking as much.”
Have a wonderful weekend everyone and we’re looking forward to another exciting (and shorter) week next week!
Crew Shields – 12/11/21
It has been a busy week within Crew Shields as we have continued with out Non fiction writing. As part of the plot point, the children had to write about children during the Industrial Revolution. To give children the opportunity to experience hard work and develop some empathy for these children, we were lucky enough this week to work alongside Mr Hull. He put the children to work using a pickaxe to break down some rubble, scrubbing the outside classroom and washing the tables. While using the pickaxe, the children soon got tired after a minute.
In expedition, we have been exploring whether materials or dissolvable and how to separate materials. The children were astonished how easy it was to separate a range of materials. Evaporation,
This morning the children have built their shelters and learned how to start fires. The children had to work collaboratively to ensure they were successful in the task. It was lovely seeing them using their speaking and listening skills.
Friday Fun!
This morning in Crew Nursery we have worked really hard to make some more fantastic firework art!
The children explored using carrots with paint and glitter to make different marks on their paper, we talked about colour mixing and counted how many fireworks we had made.
🎼Crew
In Crew Lucas thought it would be very fitting to play ‘the soldier’ as today is remembrance day. Thank you for showing off your talents Lucas, crew loved it! 👏🏼
Paying our respects
At 11am, KS1 stopped to pay their respects. We have been looking at the significance of poppies during crew time this week.
We were really proud of the children.
And we’re off!
Our KS1 are already working hard on their 100 laps
Maths week in Crew Mcloughlin
Today we were super engaged in our PE lesson and loved every minute! 🏀✖️➗Coach had planned numerous maths problems for us to solve as a crew and set up PE activities for us to work through in order to complete our tasks! We were challenged with number problems to solve, used our maths skills to solve them, and had various physical activities to complete.🧠🏃♀️We worked really hard to solve these and got smart in the process.
Crew Gerrard Maths Week Blog (10.11.21) ✖️➕➖
We’ve had another fantastic day of maths in Year 3 today! We’ve continued working on multiplications and used dice to help us create groups of, multiplication facts and arrays! We enjoyed it, as it was active and collaborative. We’re feeling super confident about our multiplications 💪 Check out our images below:
Maths v’s PE!
Today 2we had a super fun PE lesson! Coach Luke had planned lots of maths problems for us to solve as crews and set up PE activities for us to work through in order to complete our tasks! We were given a number problem to solve, used our maths skills to solve it, bounced the basketball to the hoop, scored, and then we had to find the answer to our problem on the envelope to get the next clue. We worked really hard to solve these and got really smart!
