In chemistry we have been recapping the states of matter as well as reversible and irreversible changes. We’ve then used this knowledge to investigate the rate a solute dissolves in a solvent.
Chemistry🧑🔬
Category : Crew McLoughlin Y6 (23/24)
Writing to discuss 🗣️
Working super hard in our targeted interventions
Yesterday afternoon we were improving our maths reasoning skills – Miss Mcloughlin, Mrs Rhodes and Mrs Ibbotson are very impressed with our progress!
Beautiful work celebrations
Another lovely morning celebrating beautiful work 🙂
Beautiful work
A great turn out today for beautiful work! Fantastic work everyone! It was so lovely sharing your work with you all 🙂
The Write Stuff ✏️
This week in writing we have been writing a setting description linking to our stimulus The Jungle Book. We have done two grammar days to consolidate prepositional phrases and figurative language. We have completed our first draft and we’re eager to share to our audience – our Carcroft blog. So here is a sneak peak of some of our hard work so far. Watch this space as we will share again when we have critiqued and revised to up-level our writing.
Disclaimer: Jack had the idea to read in a David Attenborough voice and Lydia went for it!
To write an effective description, you need to “think beyond what a character sees, and provide a sensory feast for readers.”
✏️Our independent writing journey✏️
We then used our planning, working wall and TWS help box to ensure we were reaching our ME.
After having our work read, Miss wasn’t satisfied we were all writing for genre and purpose. Some of us slipped into narrative writing. We had a lesson unpicking a diary and another child’s example and up-levelling. From what we had refreshed, we then went back and redrafted our writing.
Comparing Christian churches ⛪️
In our recent RE lesson we identified differences and similarities between a Baptist and Anglican Church. All together we then created a list of their beliefs on the corresponding features.
We are really enjoying learning about Christianity and other religions as we had very little background knowledge on the subject.
Addressing gaps in maths
In maths we have been revisiting gaps in our learning from the year so far. Our arithmetic of four operations is secure so we are revisiting multi-step worded problems which we found tricky at the start of the year. To begin with we unpicked various problems together – starting with one step to build our understanding. Then in partners did lots of wipeboard work. When miss assessed we were ready to move on – we picked SATS problems from around the room to solve – it really helped collaborating with others to read and understand the given problems. Y6 are smashing their learning!
Chinese New Year🧧
In Fridays Crew we learnt about the celebration Chinese New Year, we watched a video and discussed the tradition. Chinese New Year 2024 is the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese zodiac. Each year in the Chinese zodiac is associated with an animal sign, and the Dragon is considered a symbol of strength, courage, and good fortune. It is a time to embrace Chinese traditions, enjoy delicious food, and wish for prosperity and happiness in the year ahead. It was lovely to hear that one of our crew members will be celebrating with their family. As our crew activity we had to find the stolen dragons head costume; solving lots of maths problems along the way.
