Crew Shields Y4 (23/24) | Carcroft School

Crew Shields – French

24th April 2024Sarah Mcglone

This week we have been looking at seasons and becoming more confident with dates in French. We started by looking at the four seasons, practising our pronunciation, before discussing which season each month of the year falls into.

We then spent time improving our speaking skills, as well as our listening and understanding skills, by asking our friends what their date of birth is. We used our knowledge organisers to help us construct the correct French translation to record their birthdays.

We then utilised our knowledge organisers again to translate a range of dates from English to French which supported practising to write in French.

Mayan Hot Chocolate

20th April 2024Ruth Shields

Finally we were able to sample the hot chocolate that the Mayans would have had. This is made from cacao beans, milk, chilli and honey. The drink is quite bitter therefore not to everyone’s liking.

Tortilla wraps and Tuna salad

20th April 2024Ruth Shields

On Friday afternoon, we made tortilla wraps and had these with the tuna, avocado, chilli and lettuce. Again everyone gave them a good try and some really enjoyed them and asked for more. We looked forward to developing these skills later in this expedition.

Blind Tasting

20th April 2024Ruth Shields

On Thursday afternoon, we took part in blind food tasting based on foods the Maya would have eaten. Some of us were a little apprehensive about this due to the unknown. The foods we tried were avocado, chilli, lettuce, dark chocolate and tuna. As you can imagine some of these were a hit and others not so much. However, everyone gave them a try and tried to push themselves outside of their comfort zones.

Writing Speech – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

20th April 2024Ruth Shields

After having time to work alongside out partners to write speech, it was now time to write speech independently. We watched the video, took note of what was being said and by who before recording this in our books and punctuating it. It was lovely to see some children push themselves to green and experience with having the reporting clause at the start and end of the sentence.

Book Talk – Vocabulary

20th April 2024Ruth Shields

In our book talk, we read the text and started to unpick the vocabulary. This supports our comprehension of the text. We read around the word and used the root word to help us determine the definition. Once we knew what the word meant, we text marked this and record it on the vocabulary wall.

States of matter

17th April 2024Ruth Shields

Today was our Science hook week lesson where we started to explore states of matter. We started to understand the properties of solid, liquid and gas. In small groups, we had the opportunity to sort some images into the 3 categories.

Inverted Commas

17th April 2024Ruth Shields

In our writing lesson today, we had the opportunity to start creating a bank of speech that we could use in our writing along with our shoulder partners. We have become more confident with being able more the reporting clause. In our next lesson, we’ll work more independently to demonstrate our ability to punctuate direct speech

Mayan Masks

17th April 2024Ruth Shields

After starting to look at the Mayan timeline in History, we learned about the different masks that were worn by this civilisation. We learned that some masks were worn for celebrations, battle and even in death. Then we had an opportunity to design and create our own masks using known Maya masks as a template.