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.
In our book talk session, we started the session with a game of among us. Children were given either a word or the definition. They then had to find their match. We’ve been discussing the importance of understanding the vocabulary we read in a text as this helps us to comprehend the text and later apply this to our reasons to read. In addition, we’ve started to really read around the word to see if we can use the text to help us infer the meaning of a word.
In crew, we discussed how important our families are and how these might look different to other people. We started by swapping seats with others based on whether they had siblings, pets etc. Then the children has the opportunity to draw their family.
Today, we finished our hook week off with becoming familiar with sketching pencils and the techniques that could be used. We were able to notice the difference between each of the pencils.
As part of our history hook week, we’ve spent some time looking at the music of War time and the importance of this to boost morale. One of these songs was We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn. Then we used instruments to create a soundscape of sounds from the war.
In reading, we’ve been focusing on text marking for vocabulary that we were unfamiliar with. We discussed the important of understanding the vocabulary we’re reading as this helps our understanding of the text. As part of this, we practiced reading around the word as this can support our understanding.
Yesterday morning, we visited the library so that children could select a book they could take home to read. We discussed the importance of reading the blurb to help pick books that math their interests.
Hook week continued this week as we started to explore a local artist who does perspective drawing. This is what we’ll be focusing on in our final case study. Children worked together to research this artist before we critiqued some of his pieces of work.
