World Mental Health Day – today we have discussed the strategies we have for keeping our mind healthy. It was lovely to hear the children share the ways they relax such as playing games, colouring, exercise, listen to music or reading were some of the suggestions. To emphasis the importance of mindfulness, the children took part in a yoga session. It was lovely to see all the children joining in.
I has has been an extremely busy week in writing where the children have moved towards writing the whole plot point rather than just a chunk. The children have met this challenge and exceeded it in some cases. I have been blown away by the amount they have been writing and the quality they are starting to produce.
Next week will be the last week of this half term. The children have had an extremely busy half term and have accomplished so much. Only 1 week left and I know that some of the children are ready for the break. Have a lovely weekend.
We have worked hard to get smart this week across all our lessons. In expedition lessons, we have researched the Doncaster Plant works and created a flap book exploring the history behind it. The children have certainly enjoyed making these.
Our Harry Potter writing is really coming on to. We have been focussing this week on our sentence starters, relative clauses and subordinating conjunctions. We are really proud of our vocabulary so enjoy reading these examples…
As a crew we have been focussing on being kind and overall this has improved this week and we have lots of children being kind and praising others which has been lovely to see. We need to keep this up now. Next week we are going to continue to work on our listening skills and working together as a crew. Have a lovely weekend!
What a busy week! Every week seems to fly by this half term and now we only have one week left.
I have been so impressed with seeing the children commit themselves to their independent writing, it has been great to see their ideas and how they have used everything we have taught over the last few weeks. Some of the pieces have really blown our socks off and made us smile from ear to ear.
We all love our Wednesday mornings in our guitar lessons and we can’t wait to hear them put a full song together!
It has been great to see how much the children have flourished in their math lessons, all crew members work hard to make sure they are answering as many questions as they possibly can and everyone is making sure their work is looking beautiful on a daily basis!
Crew Nursery have been making birthday cakes, chocolate crispy buns and party decorations as part of their expeditionary learning this week.
Before making the cakes and crispy buns, the children explored the ingredients and described how they felt. The children liked the texture of the sugar best! After discussing the recipe, the children listened carefully to the adults instructions and measured the ingredients out carefully before whisking and mixing them together. The children showed good turn-taking skills throughout the activity!
Crew Nursery have had a fantastic start to their school journey! The children have been Working Hard, Getting Smart and Being Kind for a whole month now and the nursery teachers could not be prouder of them!
It has been a really busy week in Crew MI this week as we have been writing our next plot point in our Harry Potter writing. We have had to work really hard to to get smart with our grammar- trying our best to include subordinating conjunctions to extend our sentences. We are so excited to read their writing as their vocabulary and ideas get better each week. Watch out next week for some pics!!
In reading, we are still enjoying our book and are getting better at finding the answers in the text. We have even tried this week to annotate the story as we read so we are making sure that we are reading for meaning and can pick out key bits in the story.
In maths, we have been getting better at our place value of umbers up to millions and even solved puzzles with Roman numerals. In our magic maths sessions, we have been practising subtraction- we are getting so much better at this!
In our PE lessons this week, we have been practising our football skills; having more control over the ball when dribbling and even practising our shooting.
Next week we need continue to work on being kind to one another and making sure we’re listening to the instructions.
