In crew, we completed some mindful colouring to work on our fine motor skills and pencil grip as well as our focus and concentration. We made sure we were using the correct pencil grip and writing posture as well as staying in the lines.
Today we started to talk about our responsibilities towards a team. We thought about why it is important that everyone on a team fulfils their responsibilities. We worked in mini crews to think about what our responsibilities are as children. We thought about what these may be in school, at home and whilst in the local community. We produced an anchor chart with all our ideas. We then thought about how these compare to adults. We discussed respect in more detail and respecting the rights of others, caring for others and also standing up for our rights in the correct way. Some great discussions MI 🙂
A quick do now to recap some of the language we have been working on before completing a written comprehension. Great use of the text today to find answers 🙂
Today we used all the knowledge we have gained over our last few expeditionary lessons to create poems on the Blitz. First of all we created an anchor chart together with lots of different language on the Blitz, some examples included damage, emotional, community and homes. We then looked at different nouns that linked to the Blitz. From here we added a verb to each of our nouns. Some of the crew then looked at prepositional phrases and added an example to further develop our sentence. We then went a step further adding some different similes to our poems. There were some fantastic ideas today, great work MI 🙂
In our grammar session today, we deepened our understanding of verbs and learnt about irregular verbs. The root verb in irregular verbs change when writing it in the past tense. For example, the root verb “drink” has to be “drunk” when writing it in the past tense. We did lots of sorting activities where we sorted irregular and regular verbs. We also played bingo which we loved and can’t wait to play it next week!☺️
Today we continued to explore a range of pictures focusing on The Blitz. Todays activity built on our learning yesterday but allowed us to record some of our own thoughts and ideas. We explored a picture then recorded the things we could see. We used the sentence stem I think… to generate our own ideas then wrote down some of our wonders. We then looked closely at 2 pictures where we summarised what we could see, what we thought was happening and what they made us wonder. From here we compared each picture thinking about similarities and differences.
We continue to consolidate our place value knowledge during our do now activities. Today we ordered numbers in ascending and descending order. We then looked at a reasoning problem that we unpicked together.
The main part of our lesson looked at rounding to the nearest hundred which we did really well with. Tomorrow, Mrs Ibbotson will consolidate our learning on this before using the lesson to model some reasoning and problem solving questions. We are looking forward to working in mini crews to discuss and solve these problems.
Today we continued our expeditionary learning and started to find out about the Blitz and the impact it had. We looked at the areas affected by the Blitz and how British civilians responded. One of the activities allowed us to explore different pictures thinking about what we could see, what we thought was happening and what we wondered about the pictures. We showed some great collaborative working during this activity and all shared our ideas during our whip around.
Today we thought about the people we can ask for help and support if needed. We created an anchor chart of these people in school and thought about how they help us. We then listened to a song and thought about the lyrics and the meaning behind the words. We loved unpicking this together and discussing our thoughts. We then had a go at singing the song 🙂 There were so many happy faces as everyone joined in and had a go. There was even a few hugs happening which was so lovely to see. We then thought more about our families and the people that show us support day to day. We voiced what these people do for us and why they are special.
Our do now today allowed us to consolidate our learning when comparing numbers.
