In crew this morning we talked about what we can do to be kind to our families at home. We drew our idea on a heart and added them to our kindness jar.
Caring Crew 💕
Category : Crew Robson Y2 (23/24)
KS1 Music 🎶🎼🎵
In Year 1 this week, we began our musical journey by looking at our first unit of work – The Menu Song. We warmed our bodies up by using big gestures and actions to act out baking a cake! We then listened to the song we are going to be learning during this unit. It is a cumulative song which refers back to past lines throughout resulting in verses that get longer each time. This particular song also helps us to remember the days of the week, as well as practise our sequencing skills. We began to learn the lyrics and we will continue to build up our confidence as the weeks go on.
In Year 2, we started work on our first unit – Tony Chestnut. We began by using call-and-response style 4-beat action games. This really got us thinking and we had to concentrate to make sure we were listening to and then repeating back the correct pattern. Tony Chestnut is an action song and we looked at the words to add actions to. We practised the actions in the correct order whilst trying to keep in time to the beat. We then challenged ourselves by trying to add the vocals in whilst doing the actions! It was a little tricky but with further practise over the coming weeks we will soon be ready to showcase what we have achieved!
Fighting Fires 🧯🔥
Y2 have been gathering historical information this week about the Great Fire of London, we discovered the fire started in Pudding Lane in 1666. There was no fire brigade in London so Londoners had to fight the fire with the help of the soldiers. They used buckets of water and fire hooks. We looked at how this differed today, how our firefighters could have helped with the equipment in the present day. To test our knowledge about fire fighters in the present day we took part in our first Kahoot quiz, it was a tough one!
The Great Fire of London 🔥🏠
After building our houses yesterday, today we recreated the Great Fire of London. We all sat and watched how quickly the fire moved from one house to the next so quickly – it only took 30 minutes to burn down all of the buildings, like the 3 days it took for the Great Fire of London. We spoke about what language we could use in our writing such as fire, smoke, spreading, roaring, burning.
How does what I do, impact others?
KS1 strengthened their crews last week by having a real focus on Crew, what does it mean to us and the wider community. Our guiding questions were, ‘How does what I do, impact others?’ and ‘Does crew stop at the school gates?’. With this in mind you’ll have noticed in our blogs last week that we delivered books and kindness stones to the local community to show kindness and care. Well…….. we were so excited to see that some of these have been found and brought joy to other children outside of our school community. The children were so excited to see this in morning crew today 😊
Working collaboratively on Pudding Lane 🚒🔥
It has been so lovely to welcome parents in to our KS1 crews this afternoon. We have worked collaboratively with our parents to create the houses on Pudding Lane, including the bakery where the infamous blaze began. Keep your eyes peeled for our next exciting experience lesson where we will use our houses to rein-act historic event.
A day in the life of a baker 👩🍳 🍞
In KS1 we are answering the guiding question, What will I do to be a hero in our community? To begin our expedition we are exploring firefighters 🚒 a very brave hero!
To hook us into our new writing we looked into our new book – Vlad and the Great Fire of London. We pieced together the book front cover, predicted what might happen and then became bakers for the morning, experiencing how Vlad and Boxton would have felt in the bakers shop. We baked and tasted some delicious bread 🥖
Spreading kindness in our community
This week in Year 2 we have been answering the guiding question ‘Does Crew stop at the school gates?’.
We decided to spread some happiness by hiding rocks and books for you all to find and even enjoyed a treat along the way!
Thank you to all the parents who joined us on the walk, there were some very tired legs at the end!!
Budding Artists
Crew Robson and Crew Godley have been working hard, to get smart today by creating their own colour wheels using their art skills. We will be using our background knowledge to create a piece of crew art work tomorrow – watch this space!
We began by exploring what a colour wheel is and how we can vary shades and tints of colours by adding black or white. We were amazed by the children’s resilience and determination to achieve the desired effect.
KS1 Reading Cafe
Don’t forget to come along to the KS1 reading cafe tomorrow at 3pm to share a story with your child. Hope to see you all there!