Such resilience today in our maths lesson where we tackled some challenging word problems. Such collaborative working, supporting each other to get smart. A great start to the week MI 🙂
Word problems in maths
Category : Crew Blogs
LKS2 Summer Hook Week
To kick start off our new expedition learning-Earth Shattering Events- Crew Pashley, Crew Thompson and Crew FE participated in various activities throughout hook week. We sketched snapshots of life in Pompeii, to create whole crew storyboards demonstrating what it was like when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
All the crews participated in a carousel of activities and experiments to begin our learning on natural disasters. We made coke and mentos volcanoes, experienced what a cold flood would feel like, and experienced what an earthquake would feel like.
Fun with phonics
In our learning labs this week we have have some phonic challenges to apply our knowledge of letters and sounds. Oliver was so proud of himself when he wrote ’panic’ independently. Its been great fun 🔤
The Tunnel
This week we’ve been exploring The Tunnel, we LOVE this text and its has provided some great opportunities to develop of speaking and listening skills. We created our own tunnels and acted out the story using small world resources. It also led us into experiences to develop our vocabulary when when Dominic created a tunnel and explained it was ‘camouflaged’ so it was harder to find. He loved sharing his knowledge and understanding with the younger children in our crew.
We love a crew challenge!
We have had a great week working together on various crew challenges this week in Crew Godley. The highlight of my week was to see the children working in smaller crews, independently, during our Guess the Logo challenge. The crews showed they were able to communicate effectively, reason with each other and collaborate beautifully 🥰
Cardboard flower pots(xp outdoors)
Outside learning
In XP Outdoors today we had to find something straight, green, beautiful etc. We then shared everything we found with each other and noticed how all chose different items.
Who can build the tallest tower?
In crew today we competed against each other to build the tallest tower out of paper and sellotape.
Stem Project – Pulleys
We ended our hook week with a stem project that required us to use our problem solving skills. Children were given a range of resources and they had to use these to create a pulley system. We linked this to how in the olden days. miners and other industries would have relied on systems like this to help them move large loads of coal.
This activity really challenged our resilience as there were a few different steps that needed to be completed to allow them to successful. We managed some of the steps but then required some clues to support with the rest.
