During the last week, children had the opportunity to consolidate some of their learning using Mymaths. This allowed staff to do some 1:1 time to purple pen in maths books.
My maths – consolidation
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Subject and verb
As our do now, we consolidated our learning about regular and irregular verbs as this was an area from out touchdown on verbs that we need to continue drip feeding into our learning.
We have now moved on to new learning in grammar where we need to understand the subject and verb within a sentence. We used a script to help us identify the verb and then who or what was doing the action.
For example: The skull protects the brain.
What is the first verb?
Protects
What protects? Who protects?
The skull
Therefore the skull is the subject of the sentence.
This script helped us focus and find the subject.
When we moved on to the subject as a pronoun, we struggled with this so we had a practical lesson where we could form a sentence that made sense then identify the verb and who or what did that action. This helped us understand more and this was evident when children went back to purple pen their exit ticket from the previous lesson and got it correct.
Roles of men and women during Wartimes
In history, we explored the roles of men and women during wartimes. Children learned that everyone played a vital role towards the war effort whether that was on the frontline or on the home front. Children then completed an exit ticket to explain the job they would want and explain why. Teddy gave a great explanation for why he’d want to be making bombs.
Irregular Verbs
In grammar, we continued to explore irregular verbs and how these change in the past tense. These are words that children will need to learn so we verbally practiced using my turn your turn.
Testimony of Evacuees
In our history lesson, we explored further the experiences of children during wartimes and what life was like as an evacuee. This required us to use our reading skills so we could skim and scan the text before making inferences. Once we had read and understood the text we completed some details about each person. We discovered that some children had positive experiences during wartimes but unfortunately there were children who had quite negative experiences as an evacuee.
Crew Challenge
During Crew challenge, children were tasked with making the longest paper chain in 3 minutes. Children were split into small groups to complete the challenge. Some groups broke off into pairs and started building a chain which they joined together before the time ran out. Other groups delegated roles to each other. By delegating jobs or splitting off into smaller groups it allowed them to be successful.
Attendance Award
We hreally enjoyed our attendance treat yesterday of nun and juice. This was awarded for receiving 99% attendance for last week. Well done everyone. Keep coming to school and we’ll be able to enjoy this more often.
Arithmetic – exchanging
In arithmetic, we have been learning about exchanging and how we need to exchange a ten for 10 ones when we don’t have enough to subtract. Children were encouraged to draw the tens and ones above their number so they could see what was happening when they exchange.
Litter Picking
This afternoon, we helped to keep our environment tidy by litter picking around the school grounds. It was disappointing to see so much rubbish around the grounds but also large pieces that have been thrown over such as a broken electric scooter and a Christmas tree.
Mindfulness Crew
Due to use having no community meeting this week, we took the opportunity to have a mindfulness crew session instead. This was such a lovely activity where we listened to instrumental music and used our pencil/pen to outline a splatter of paint. You could have heard a pin drop in our classroom yesterday morning. Definitely something we’ll be doing again.
