In crew, we have been using our listening skills, as well as our socialising skills to play parachute games! We have absolutely LOVED our parachute crew sessions and can’t wait to play even more games when we next get the parachute out.
Since we have come back to school, we have been super busy getting hooked into our new expedition, as well as catching up with our friends.
We have LOVED being able to get outside, although we wish the weather would make it’s mind up – especially if it picks to be nice and sunny all the time!
We’ve enjoyed playing with the water tray and we have worked hard as a team to create a ramp for the boats to move from one tray to another. Using water to paint our climbing frame has also been something we have had lots of fun doing – we even worked together to make a platform to stand on so that we could reach the top of the frame.
Our new expedition is ’We’re on the move – Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things?’ and so we have been building our own buses and pretending to drive them as well as asking asking for tickets to our chosen destinations. We have also been carrying on some of our learning from our last expedition by checking in with our plants and making sure they are getting enough water. We have also really enjoyed using the new toys and jigsaws we have out in provision – the big helicopter is definitely a firm favourite!
Today we continued to unpick 3 mark questions using APE to support our answers. We then moved onto a poetry text, thinking about the meaning of the poem. We had to use our inference skills today in order to find answers as well as thinking about some of the vocabulary. The poem really challenged our thinking but allowed us to have some really good discussions.
In magic maths we found the mean then converted between fractions, decimals and percentages. In our main maths lesson, we continued to look at word problems. Such hard work again in MI 🙂
To kick start our King Charles learning we looked at memories of the Queen that have happened over her reign. We looked at the Queen’s coronation and the Queen’s platinum jubilee. We really enjoyed watching the different memories and learning/understanding what happened in them and why.
In crew today Crew Marsh learnt about St George and all the kind things he did. We created a rose to celebrate him.
Oh no! King Charles has lost his crown while out and about in London and it’s our job to find it.
We can’t wait to share our stories with you. First stop…Trafalgar Square!
In reading we explored a new text, we used a range of strategies when reading out loud including echo read, partner reading, read around the robin as well as trying to beat a timer to increase our pace. We then unpicked some of the vocabulary using a range of strategies to help us. Whilst reading we text marked, one of the things we circled were dates. Our non fiction text included lots of dates which were really useful to know when it came to answering questions later in the session. We then took part in a vocabulary activity which assessed our understanding of the vocabulary we had previously discussed. We looked at both synonyms and antonyms for some of the vocabulary we had highlighted in our texts as well as thinking of some of our own examples. We then moved onto answering questions which included a range of sats style questions. Some of us then moved onto green standard questions where we had to use APE to answer the 3 mark questions. A positive attitude by all in todays lesson, well done MI 🙂
Today we started Chapter 3 of our Expedition text and focused on vocabulary.
Children started off playing a game called Round Table where they had to list adjectives from the text. We then shared these as a whiparound.
During the lesson we come across a word that we were unsure of how to use in a sentence. We looked at the definition and discussed some possible ways of using the word. Children then had an opportunity to write their own sentence.
Our grammar lesson started with a mini assessment that challenged our pace and got us thinking about different types of grammar. We then moved onto looking at relative clauses along with relative pronouns. There are some great supportive role models in MI who continue to get smart every lesson. Our grammar knowledge continues to improve every day.
