Book talk in MI

18th March 2024Stacey McClare

Our entry ticket allowed us to build on previous reading lessons, thinking back to the African countries we have studied and read about. We thought back to the facts we had learnt about these countries and worked with our partners to voice facts. I was blown away by what we remembered! We have really loved learning about each country and learning about what it has to offer.

We then read our next bit of text all about Mauritius! This was a complete contrast to some of the countries we had previously looked at. We took part in a partner read, independent read and then a chorus read. We read the text over and over to ensure we were taking in the information. Mrs McClare questioned us on our reading as we read. We unpicked some of the language and made inferences based on the information.

We then moved onto our reasons to read, using the text to support our answers. We looked at different types of questions, some of these were ones we had struggled with in our latest assessment. We thought about our impressions of Mauritius and used the text to support our ideas.

Finally our exit ticket allowed us to think about Ammeenah Gurib, we voiced all the facts we had learnt about her whilst reading. A fantastic reading lesson today 🙂

Caring Crew in MI

18th March 2024Stacey McClare

Today we thought about how we feel in certain situations and how we can regulate our thoughts and behaviour. We worked in smaller crews to think about what makes us happy. We drew our ideas in thought bubbles then shared them with the whole crew. We then did the same for the emotion sad and compared our ideas. We then compared to the emotions anger and calm. From here we played an emotions game where effective communication was key. We moved around the board sharing times where we have experienced each emotion. During our debrief we discussed why thinking positive thoughts is so important and why having a positive attitude is key. We linked to our howls here and discussed when we have done this.

Creating Confidence in Crew 🎭😊🌈⭐

14th March 2024Sophie Elmer

This morning during our Crew session we discussed what ‘confidence’ meant. We then shared times when we felt most confident and times when we felt not very confident at all. We then discussed how we could feel more confident about something at times when we are feeling shy or nervous. Although when we experience these feelings its hard to feel confident we thought of ways or strategies to help us with this such as, having positive thoughts, sending positive vibes, talking to our family and friends, smiling and standing tall. We then created our own ‘confidence masks’ that we could wear at times when we weren’t feeling confident to give us the confidence boost that we needed. We shared our ideas before we began and discussed the power of rainbows, bright colours, stars, positive symbols, smiles and love. Below are some of our designs!

Book Talk Round 2⃣in Crew MI 📚📖🗣🌍🌞🎨

14th March 2024Sophie Elmer

We began today’s Book Talk session by completing an entry ticket to support us in developing our inference skills. We had to infer as much as possible from the picture given, it was tricky but with a few prompts from Mrs Elmer we were able to list lots! We then recapped the title, purpose, audience and genre of our current text and revisited the map (of Africa) that we had looked at in the previous session. We located Ethiopia and looked at the other countries that surrounded it. We soon realised that it was a ‘landlocked’ country. We then made predictions using the picture clues on the map to predict what we thought Ethiopia might be like. We then ‘echo read’ the text and everyone had a go at independently reading a sentence or two using the ‘round robin’ reading approach. As we read we discussed some of the new, more challenging, topic related words that we came across such as Rastafarians, murals and seized. We then looked at some reason to read questions that required us to ‘trawl for evidence’ in the text. 🕵 At the end of the lesson we then completed an ‘exit ticket’ to share some of the interesting facts that we had learnt about Ethiopia, such as did you know that they started the habit of drinking coffee?! ☕

RE in Crew MI ⛪✝💕🧑‍🤝‍🧑

14th March 2024Sophie Elmer

In our RE lesson today we began by working in mini crews (teams) to use our bodies to create different words such as ‘love’, ‘me’ and ‘yes’. This was challenging yet fun and really got us to think about ‘what makes a good team?’. We came up with a list and some of these were communication, listening, all taking part, having a leader and being supportive. We then looked at Christianity and discussed the quote ‘Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it’ taken from the Bible. We thought about why the church is considered the ‘body of Christ’ and how Christians can also demonstrate the ‘body of Christ’ individually as well as in groups. Some ideas were that the church is the central place where Christians go to worship and pray, and Christians themselves act like Jesus (caring, kind, helpful) and share Jesus’ stories with others. We then discussed the church more and listed reasons why we thought Christians might go to church on a Sunday such as, to worship, to pray, to celebrate and to take part in communion. We also looked at Quaker worship which is more of a silent approach to worship. We then finished our discussions thinking about what is more important, people/Christians or places/churches? We had some really great conversations and all contributed well. We then concluded the session by listing on post it notes everything that we had learnt and there was lots!! 📝

Book talk in MI

12th March 2024Stacey McClare

Our entry ticket today allowed us to think about differences between two maps and we also gave our own personal opinions about the map we preferred. We explored each map together, thinking about what we can see. We thought about why the author may have chosen to show the maps in a different way and we voiced reasons for this. We used our inference skills to try and work out which part of Africa we would be looking at and thought about what we noticed about certain places. From here we read the text using a partner read, an independent read then we used a chorus read. As we read we explored specific vocabulary, unpicked phrases and discussed what we had read. We then looked at our reasons to read which showed us we had taken in what we had just read. Our exit ticket pulled all of our learning together. We drew a picture and described East Africa 🙂

Crew in MI

12th March 2024Stacey McClare

Today we took part in an extended crew due to the children being off school yesterday. Firstly, we took part in our challenge crew which was just the start we needed! It was full of laughs and giggles and really set us up for the day! We then moved onto the caring crew we missed yesterday where we continued to think about emotions. One of the activities allowed us to discuss our feelings on swimming which is something we will start after the Easter holidays. This was a valuable discussion and allowed us all to voice our feelings about it.

Edit and redraft in MI

12th March 2024Stacey McClare

Today we critiqued a crew members habitat section of their non chronological report. We thought about sentences where target grids had been used then we unpicked and redrafted sentences that needed to be better. We all worked well in mini crews to do this before giving feedback to the whole crew. We then applied what we had learnt to our own work, editing and redrafting our own sentences. We are getting much more confident in this part of the writing sequence.