Geography
This afternoon we spent time learning about a compass and the different directions. We firstly looked at the cardinal directions: North, East, South and West.
Then we looked at the intermediate directions which are North East, south east, south west and north west.
Once we knew the directions, we played a game where we had to follow the directions and see where we ended up.
Yesterday afternoon, we braved the cold to go on an adventure. We had to use a series of instructions to guide us around the playground where we found some clues. When we returned to class, we worked together to figure out what they said. When we had finished, we discovered that the clues made up the guiding question.
In our geography lesson, we have looked at what human and physical features are. We firstly worked in groups to cut out the images and then stuck and organised them onto our sheet to show which is human and which is physical. We worked so well in our groups!
Today we began our brand new expedition by being geographers.
We recapped some of our previous learning from year 1 and talked about human and physical features. I was very impressed by how much you could all remember. Great work Crew Robson.
On Friday, we completed our compass lesson to try to find the clues to work out our guiding question. Children had a map of the school grounds and clues to follow for example, 23 steps North. Children worked really well as crew to find all the clues. We then went back inside and figured out the guiding question. We were so excited to find out our guiding question for this expedition is “How can we protect our Wonderful World?”
On Friday, we discussed as a crew what the guiding question could be for our Spring expedition based on the things we’d talked about and the activities.
We had some really good suggestions such as:
How can we save the world?
How can we save our planet?
How does climate change effect the planet?
How can we take care of our planet?
How does global warming effect animals?
Really impressed that children were able to suggest guiding questions similar to the one we’ll have.
Our guiding questions for spring will be:
In Crew Haddock, the children worked together to find the 7 clues to work out our guiding question for expedition-‘How can we protect our wonderful world?’. They used the 4 points of a compass to work out which direction they had to go in 🧭
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As part of hook week, we have been outside on to the school field to pick up some litter. It was really surprising to see how much litter there is on our field. We collected lots of rubbish which we aim to make some artwork out of later on in the week.
During our celebration of learning, we were able to show our grown ups everything we have learnt during expedition this term. We shared our guiding question “Why should Doncaster remember the Romans?”. We then took it in turns to share what we had learnt in our 3 case studies (Geography, History and Science). Grown ups got the opportunity to look through our writing and expedition books to see our non-chronological report and diaries. We then shared our final product and had a browse through this. We are all really proud of how well this has turned out!
This morning, Crew MW took a little walk around the outdoor area of our school. We discovered that the frost had come! We explored the crunchy, frosty grass and then glittery frost on the tyres! We also found out that frost and ice makes everything a little bit slippery and we practised our skating on the tarmac under the climbing frame! When we walked around to the forest area, we also found that the water in the water tray had frozen 🥶 We talked about what will happen as the sunshine comes out and warms up the temperature, and we decided that the ice would probably start to melt.
