Experience day in MI

Today MI started their next writing unit, setting and character descriptions around The Lorax. First we started watching the film and thought about how it links to our guiding question. We voiced our opinions on what we had seen and how it made us feel. We then re watched the song at the beginning of the film and thought about the lyrics. We looked closer at the pictures within the clip and used these to think about whether Thneedville is a good place to live. We then moved onto looking at what similes are, using examples to make similes accurate. From here we used different pictures of Thneedville to chot descriptive language and similes. We used the notice lense to support us. We then unpicked different setting descriptions thinking about the features used.

Independent writing in MI

Crew MI continue to blow me away with their writing. Children are trying so hard with their sentence structure and are really taking on board critique. We have all really enjoyed our first writing unit, children have produced their own narrative and have shown incredible progress throughout the cycle of writing.

Science continues in MI

Today we looked at and discussed the life cycle of a plant. We used a video clip to get us going then worked in mini crews on an activity to assess our knowledge of the clip. We then had a go at acting out the life cycle using the terms we had just looked at in mini crews. We then created a class anchor chart to show this. We have some great actors in MI!

Inverse maths in Crew MI

We have been working really hard to understand out fact families and how addition and subtraction are the inverse of each other. We used our special whiteboard to help us to understand the relationship between numbers. Finally we even played a game and created our own fact families.