In reading, we continued exploring The Lion and The Unicorn. In this lesson, we took on the role of Lenny and acted out when he ran away. They scampered through the raspberry brushes, weaved through the trees, went through a hole in the hedge and ran through the night.
In maths, we continued our work on number lines. On this occasion, we had some missing number and had to estimate what the number was but also ensuring they were in order.
This week in grammar we have continued to learn about the to be verb and understanding past and present. We had the Carcroft Time Machine which helped us sort our sentences.
Last week, we made Cauliflower pie using basic ingredients. This was an opportunity for us to get a feel for what it was like during the war and the challenges there would have been due to rationing. Everyone pushed the self out if their comfort zone and tried it. There were mixed reviews. Some enjoyed the crunchy top while others preferred the soft inside. Some were pleasantly surprised to discover that they actually really enjoyed it and had seconds.
Last week, we became a human number line to help us understand the different intervals. We started quite simple so children could understand that each person went up a set amount. Once we were feeling more confident with it, we missed some numbers out and children had to work together to figure out the missing intervals.
Last week, we had a reteach lesson on common nouns and Proper nouns as we still weren’t 100% confident. To start we sorted some words into groups to remind us that a noun is the name of a person, place or thing. We then completed an activity we’re we had to match the common noun with the proper noun. E.g. shop – Asda
This afternoon, Crew Shields welcomed a visit from the fire service. They had come to school to talk about how to keep themselves safe at home and also while near open bodies of water.
They were given the opportunity to discuss where we should have smoked alarms inside our homes to keep us safe. Then they started to identify fires that are good and bad.
Hopefully children have come home today and asked where the smoke alarm is and if they could check it was working.
We also learned what to do if we were ever in a position where our clothes had caught fire. We should STOP, DROP and ROLL.
Children then role played calling in an emergency and someone being the operator.
Today, we continued learning about nouns. So far we’ve learned about common nouns, proper nouns and collective nouns. It was the turn of partitive nouns which shows how much is a noun. For example: a spoonful of sugar, a cup of tea, a slice of cake
Children worked in pairs to match the partitive noun with the correct noun. Children were encouraged to read them out loud to check sense.
Over our last 2 expedition lessons, we have focused on rationing and why thus became an essential part of the war effort. Children learned that due to the Germans bombing ships, this resulted in a shortage of food. Once we had required ipthe information we needed, children then had the opportunity to become shop keepers and customers, they all came with their ration books and used their coupons. Children realised that due to the restrictions they couldn’t buy what they want but what was needed to feed the family.
This week we continued our history case study by starting to learn about the organisation of wartime. We learned there were 4 organisations that people belonged to which were: Armed Forces, the government, special operations and the home front. We discussed that regardless of which group people were part of that everyone played a vital role in the war effort. Children then took on the role of someone from the war and interviewed each other asking questions about when they weee born, where they were stationed and their role. This was an opportunity to practice our reading within our expedition lesson and support each other.
