Book talk in MI

9th October 2024Stacey McClare

We really loved the activate part of our reading lesson today, an inference activity. We read a short passage and discussed the questions in mini crews. I was blown away with some of the ideas the children came up with! We then moved onto another non fiction extract on evacuation. We used lots of our expeditionary learning when discussing the text further. There was some great skimming and scanning of the text today to find answers during our reasons to read. I was particularly impressed with the questions children were asking and how engaged they were. Our exit ticket really showed children’s improved confidence with skimming and scanning.

Applying our knowledge of women’s roles

9th October 2024Stacey McClare

Today we built on the knowledge we had gained on women’s roles during WW2 and applied this to a short piece of writing. We thought about what life was like for women before the war and why the opportunities of women were different to men. We then wrote about how the experiences of women changed when WW2 broke out and why this changed happened. From he we thought about how women’s lives then changed after the war and peoples attitudes towards women. This was a great exit ticket helping us reflect on our learning.

Single Clause Sentences…

8th October 2024Emily Ibbotson

We had a great lesson in Crew MI where we began thinking how we could build single clause sentences that included a subject and a verb. We were able to identify these and then decide where the capital letter and full stop should go. Some of us even had a go at including a conjunction to link the clauses.

Challenge crew in MI

8th October 2024Stacey McClare

Today we worked in mini crews to create a paper chain in a set period of time. The mini crew who created the longest paper chain were the winners! To start with, children discussed what they would do, they thought about job roles and what equipment they would use. There was lots of great collaborative working, children discussed ideas together and encouraged each other as the time was ticking! In our debrief we discussed who did which role in each mini crew and which skills were needed to make the challenge a success.

Roles of women in WW2

7th October 2024Stacey McClare

Today we looked at the roles of women in WW2, a lesson we really enjoyed 🙂 First of all we started to think about the expectation of women before WW2. We realised that women were seen as ‘housewives’ and looked after the family. We explored a variety of pictures which showed this. The activate part of our lesson was watching a video clip, which we all enjoyed. There were a few shoulders bopping up and down as we watched! We thought about notices and wonders the first time we watched then the second time, we used our whiteboards to record some of the jobs women had before the war then during the war. We shared our ideas in mini crews and built a whole class anchor chart. We then took part in a collaborative task, a mini reading comprehension based on the clip! There was even some grammar in there on the subject! We then moved onto watching another two clips, again thinking about the roles of women but then thinking about how the war actually changed women’s lives. We demonstrated our learning through a venn diagram task, working in mini crews to sort the jobs of women before and during the war. Our exit ticket will come in tomorrows lesson where we will complete a piece of writing to explain how the experiences of women changed because of WW2. This will also help us to answer our guiding question.

Single-clause sentences in MI

7th October 2024Stacey McClare

Today we consolidated our learning on single clause sentences. We recapped the terms clause, independent clause and single-clause sentence. In order to do this we rewrote a series of sentences showing where the verbs and subjects are in the sentences then we had to decide on where the punctuation needed to go. We explained why the punctuation was needed in the different places in the sentence using the vocabulary full independent clause, subject and verb. We took part in a series of consolidation activities before moving onto building single-clause sentences with a focus on pronouns. We highlighted nouns and noun phrases that had been repeated and used other pronouns to replace these. Our activity allowed us to demonstrate our learning so far where we identified single clause sentences which used pronouns. We will continue to build on this tomorrow 🙂

Book talk in MI

7th October 2024Stacey McClare

To activate our lesson we looked at a variety of photos and thought about what we knew from looking at the pictures. We thought about who the pictures were, what the people are doing and how they are feeling. We tried to give reasons for our ideas and thought about how they relate to the story we have just read. We then looked at our text for the lesson, recapping fiction and non fiction and how this text was different to the story. We used a partner read, a read around the robin and an independent read. We unpicked the language as we read, text marking unfamiliar language. Our reasons to read allowed us to demonstrate our understanding of the text where we texting marked as we skimmed and scanned the text. Our exit ticket allowed us to consolidate our learning through a summarising question. We ensured we text marked as we ordered each statement.

Building on evacuation in MI

3rd October 2024Stacey McClare

Yesterday we continued our expeditionary learning on evacuation where we built on the knowledge we already had. We imagined we were a parent of two small children living in London’s docklands. We had to decide whether or not to evacuate our children. We considered the factor cards in front of us, reading them aloud with our partner. If we thought the factor card was a reason for evacuation we moved our counter forward on our board. If we thought it was against evacuation we moved it backwards. After doing this, we reviewed the cards again, this time ranking the cards by how important they are to us. We then explained our decision using the sentence starter, “If I were a parent, I would/would not not evacuate my children because… We worked really well in mini-crews, discussing our thoughts and ideas together.

Road safety in Crew MI

3rd October 2024Kate Thompson

We completed a road safety course today. We practiced crossing the road safely. This meant we had to think, stop, look and listen before we crossed the road. We also had to have safe feet, walk in a straight line across the road and continue to check for traffic. We had lots of fun and can’t wait to keep practicing crossing the road safely.