In Crew Haddock we worked together to get 1 piece of paper from one end of the classroom to the other end without using our hands.
Crew Challenge
Category : Curriculum
Y3/4 Dodgeball tournament
We are so proud of our Y3/4 dodgeball team for getting a medal for best sportsmanship! 🥰
Creating Confidence in Crew 🎭😊🌈⭐
This morning during our Crew session we discussed what ‘confidence’ meant. We then shared times when we felt most confident and times when we felt not very confident at all. We then discussed how we could feel more confident about something at times when we are feeling shy or nervous. Although when we experience these feelings its hard to feel confident we thought of ways or strategies to help us with this such as, having positive thoughts, sending positive vibes, talking to our family and friends, smiling and standing tall. We then created our own ‘confidence masks’ that we could wear at times when we weren’t feeling confident to give us the confidence boost that we needed. We shared our ideas before we began and discussed the power of rainbows, bright colours, stars, positive symbols, smiles and love. Below are some of our designs!
Book Talk Round 2⃣in Crew MI 📚📖🗣🌍🌞🎨
We began today’s Book Talk session by completing an entry ticket to support us in developing our inference skills. We had to infer as much as possible from the picture given, it was tricky but with a few prompts from Mrs Elmer we were able to list lots! We then recapped the title, purpose, audience and genre of our current text and revisited the map (of Africa) that we had looked at in the previous session. We located Ethiopia and looked at the other countries that surrounded it. We soon realised that it was a ‘landlocked’ country. We then made predictions using the picture clues on the map to predict what we thought Ethiopia might be like. We then ‘echo read’ the text and everyone had a go at independently reading a sentence or two using the ‘round robin’ reading approach. As we read we discussed some of the new, more challenging, topic related words that we came across such as Rastafarians, murals and seized. We then looked at some reason to read questions that required us to ‘trawl for evidence’ in the text. 🕵 At the end of the lesson we then completed an ‘exit ticket’ to share some of the interesting facts that we had learnt about Ethiopia, such as did you know that they started the habit of drinking coffee?! ☕
Cheerleading club 📣
Learning about the equator line 🌎
Today we have learnt about the equator line and where is hot and cold in our world. We could remember where the North Pole was and who lived there!
Decorating our biscuits!
This morning, we spent time mixing the icing to decorate out biscuits with. We made red, blue and yellow icing that was sticky and gloopy! We loved drizzling and spreading the icing over the gingerbread men to decorate them.
Independent write preparation
In our writing lesson today we have been ordering pictures from the Ice Age clip, to help us order and sort our writing. This is preparation for our independent write next week.
Which materials are magnetic? 🧲
Yesterday afternoon, we explored a range of materials to investigate which were magnetic or non magnetic. We sorted our materials into 2 groups. We also discovered that that attraction was stronger with some items. To help us understand why some metal materials are magnetic we watched a video that explained for an item to be magnetic, it just contain cobalt, iron or nickel.
Case Study reflection 🧲🌎
Today, we completed our case study reflection for Case Study 2. We reflected on all our learning over the case study and answered some questions based on our learning. I was blown away by the amount of knowledge the children had remembered.
