Today our crew challenge was rock, paper, scissors! We worked in groups of three, one person recording the score on whiteboards! We then swapped roles. The winners of the group then competed with each other until we had an overall champion 🙂 We loved this challenge! There was a real buzz in the classroom, lots of giggles and smiles and lots of encouragement.
In maths, we started to learn more about dividing. We got the concrete resources out and shared the blocks into equal groups! We really enjoyed doing this and could answer a variety of dividing questions!
Crew MI are beaming with pride with their final pieces of art work and we couldn’t be more proud of each and every member of our crew. Well done everybody 🙂
MI have started their new writing/grammar unit looking at extinct animals. Over the last few days we have been taking part in a series of diagnostic tasks that are allowing us to digest lots of grammar that will be needed when it comes to writing our own non-chronological report. Today we thought about adverbials of time, manner and place along with identifying main and subordinate clauses. We moved our sentences around changing the order of the main and subordinate clause. We have added our anchor charts to our working wall which we will use when we start to write.
We are really enjoying our art case study where we are working hard on our perspective drawing. This is something we have found very challenging however we are all showing great resilience. We have practised some of the skills many times to ensure we get things just right on our final piece.
A great start to our maths lesson today with our magic maths questions. We consolidated our knowledge when using symbols to show if numbers are bigger than, smaller than or equal to other numbers. We then moved onto our problem of the day, using the knowledge we gained last week when using money. We then consolidated our learning on pictograms. The main lesson was looking at multiplication word problems. We unpicked lots of questions together, working well in mini crews to discuss if the problem was multiplication and what we had to do to solve it. We are getting much more confident when identifying the operation needed. We look forward to continuing with this on Wednesday.
Today Mrs Ibbotson played some of the songs from our WW2 play on the piano. We loved singing to them in our music lesson!
Today we looked at a poem linking to WW2. We enjoyed exploring the text today, unpicking language and text marking. Before reading, we looked at the text, thinking about what we noticed. We thought about how the text was laid out, what the pictures were showing and what the text reminded us of. We had some great discussions before we even started reading! We then looked more into the structure and layout, we looked at the title and the stanzas used. We thought about whether all poems have rhyming words and found some examples ourselves. From here we explored each stanzas, unpicking vocabulary and unpicking what the words actually meant. This was a great reading session where everyone was really engaged in the text. Our exit ticket allowed us to share our thoughts on the poem, we thought about if we liked the poem and if it evoked any feelings. We related our thoughts back to our expeditionary learning discussing some of the lessons we have already completed.
Today we consolidated our learning from yesterday by adding money amounts mentally. We then moved onto adding amounts using a written method and found change! We loved visiting Crew MI’s shop, choosing different items we wanted to buy.
Today we wore odd socks to school to celebrate that everyone is unique. We continued to look at the theme of the week- respect and also linked this to kindness. We thought about how we feel when people are kind to us and why it is important to treat other people the way we want to be treated. We then made pledges… To help stop bullying and to show kindness to all people, I pledge… We worked well in mini crews to build our pledges then shared with the whole crew. From here we looked at our activity linking to odd socks day. We worked with our partner to discuss ways in which we are same and ways we are different. We loved this activity and found out more about others. We then thought about how we wanted to showcase our odd socks!
