What an exciting week we’ve had!! Lots of fun in our new crews, school fun day 🍦 and football fun 🥅

What a fantastic week of expeditionary exploring!

I have been so impressed by the children’s maturity this week, we are definitely Year 1 ready! The children have enjoyed exploring the text ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’. We have investigated which fruit and vegetables grown on the farm, we explored if they grew above or below ground and planted our own vegetables to harvest.

We also had some fantastic, independent writing, retelling the story of Oliver’s vegetables. The children wrote their own chunks of sense, making their work beautiful by ensuring they used finger spaces, capital letters and full stops, Crew Godley you are amazing!

HoWL average…… 3.1

We did it!!! I am so proud of the children this week applying their math’s and phonics independently, there was only one thing for it, lots of 4’s. Grace particularly blew me away, she always shows green standard and sets a great example to her peers ☺️

Magnificent Monday!

I was absolutely thrilled today by the ‘can do’ attitude of Crew Godley. Our HoWL score today was 2.9, a massive improvement last week already. Just a couple of tweaks tomorrow to make sure all of our crew are ‘being kind’ then we’ll reach that fantastic three!

We have been working hard to strengthen our fine motor skills today to improve our handwriting. We have been down on the farm with our disco dough and counting how many worms we could catch using the tweezers.

The highlight of my day was Shania leading our crew song, she always engages our crew! A teacher in the making

We have had a busy week in Crew Godley!

Highlights of the Week:

Maths: We have been exploring patterns this week, we have made patterns with so many things! Numicon, ourselves, sounds and even fruit! The fruit kebabs went down a treat, we used fruit from the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛 ‘. It was so tasty and whilst we developed our maths skills it also provided us with an opportunity to develop our fine motor skills. We had to chop the fruit in half whilst also carefully placing on the skewer. It became a little tricky at times 🦋

Writing: We have been using our writing lessons to inform our expedition work, exploring the text, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This has developed our understanding of the life cycle of a butterfly. We have used the ‘notice lense’ to write a fact file about the butterfly. We can’t wait to see our caterpillars spin their cocoons.

Howl Average:

We have ended the week on a very disappointing 2.8. Unfortunately some of our crew have found it difficult to show kindness to their peers. We have had a significant amount of apologies and pledges this week and I hope to see a big improvement next week.

As we come into our final week of the half term we really need to think about how we can demonstrate our HoWLs at all times of the day. We need to see our scores back in the 3’s for all crew members.

Have a lovely weekend everyone 😊