Last week, year 5 took part in a fantastic workshop which consolidated their learning on their autumn expedition and also their expedition around the water cycle last year. The children then worked in groups to create a Lego bot which they then programmed using a computer so it would move on its own to deliver much needed water supplies. The children really enjoyed this but it was also great to see them all grappling and working collaboratively.
A great PE lesson in MI 🙂
We enjoyed finding our new vocabulary today whilst reading outloud 🙂 We used a read around the robin and a partner read today whilst reading. Mrs McClare then timed us to see how far we could read in 1 minute but still ensuring we were reading accurately. We discussed the story as we read thinking about our thoughts on the characters and what was happening. We tried to empathise with some of the characters, putting ourselves in their position. We tried to text mark some ideas as we read then shared this with another group. We then explored some questions as a group and even unpicked our green challenge question. We showed a great understanding today 🙂
Yet another fabulous year performing at Sheffield Arena as part of Young Voices 2024!
We are improving every week 🙂
Another fab lesson in maths today! We looked at both tenths and hundredths and we all worked so hard 🙂 Some great collaborative working today when some of us found things a little challenging. It was so lovely to see crew members supporting each other.
In our reading lesson today we continued to work on our written questions from yesterday. We used the text to skim and scan for clues then recorded our answers. We are getting more confident in using the text and we are starting to believe in ourselves. We then moved onto reading the next part of the story, we were so excited to find out what happened! We discussed the text as we read, unpicked unfamiliar vocabulary and thought about why certain parts of the story had happened. We even used our inference skills to talk about why the characters had behaved in a particular way. We discussed our opinion on the ending of the story and this allowed for some great discussions, challenging our thinking.
We are all super proud of our sculptures and are looking forward to displaying them for everyone to see 🙂
Today we watched and unpicked a section of the Jungle Book film, thinking about how Mowgli feels in certain situations. We got into role, becoming Mowgli, making his feelings come to life. We were then introduced to our new writing genre, a diary entry. We started to think about what a diary is and the features needed. We explored a model text and then unpicked the different features. We talked about how a diary is different to our previous genres. We talked about our own experiences of diaries and if we write them at home. We then looked at Mrs McClare’s example of Mowgli’s diary and what was included. This afternoon we have moved onto some grammar learning- using time adverbials. We tried to build sentences together and with our partners. We will be applying everything we have learnt in our grammar lesson tomorrow.
Today we recapped our previous vocabulary in reading by playing 4 corners! We loved playing this game! We thought about which word class the words belonged to and why. We read the words in context too to help us. We then read some of our text using a variety of reading strategies, we tried to do some text marking as we read. From here we tried to independently answer a range of fact and retrieval questions and also challenged ourselves with a green standard question. We used the knowledge we had gained in our previous demonstration comprehension lesson to help us to answer our questions.
