We have really enjoyed learning about Anne Frank in our expeditionary learning this week. We learnt about Nazi persecution on Jewish people and all about the Holocaust. We have all been so engaged in this subject area this week with so many questions raised. We were all very mature in our approach to this subject and really showcased our best selves.
This week is recycling week! We discussed the term recycling in our mini crews and gave some examples of what we recycle. We then took part in a recycling quiz which we all enjoyed! There was some great collaborative working with some great discussions of answers together.
Today we continued our work on single-clause sentences which we are now getting really confident with. We also looked at the ‘leftovers’ thinking about which clause they belong to. We used counters and different coloured pens to show the different clauses and worked in mini crews to check our ideas. Super impressed MI 🙂
Today we continued with our maths game where we solved lots of one step word problems. We are getting much more confident when deciding on which operation is needed.
Our do now allowed us to consolidate our learning on roman numerals, we are all getting really confident with these 🙂 The activate part of the lesson really got us thinking. ‘The answer is 100’ What could the question be? There were some great collaborative working on this and some great questions were generated. Well done MI 🙂
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.
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.
Today in Crew MI, we enjoyed learning about roman numerals. We decided it was like trying to crack a code. We learnt that different letters meant different symbols and we had to put them in the right order to create our numbers. We then put this into practise a completed a task on my maths.
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.
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.
