When we got in from break today we heard our classroom door make a strange noise, we had been delivered a newspaper that told us the great explorer (Tom’s Dad) had gone missing in North Pole.
We decided that we wanted to help, so we all wrote our own newspaper describing what Tom’s Dad looked like and where he had gone missing. We then told the rest of the school about this by posting it under their classroom doors.
In our book talk session this morning, we started a new book “Polar Bear”. We began by unpicking the front cover and deciding whether it is a fiction or a non-fiction book. We the chorus read the text while we text marked anything that was important or what we didn’t know/understand. We found lots of important facts in the pages we were reading.
We had an extended crew this morning doing cojo. They really enjoyed this and making the assault course bigger each time.
In arithmetic, we have been looking at finding fractions of an amount. We looked at both unit and non unit fractions. We were encouraged to use the method which helps to ensure we calculate the correct answer. Some of use moved on to worded problems that required us to use the skills we’d learned.
This week we have started our art slice where we will be learning the skills of collage. To start with we have learned about a new artist Jessa Dupuis who is known for her collage work. In addition, we did a quick recap about Waltraud Nawratil who we studied for our painting art slice.
Today, we completed our book talk lessons which consisted of us unpicking the text and ensuring we understand the vocabulary we’re reading. We had some good discussions about the vocabulary and used different skills to help us understand the meaning and context of the words.
We have now started our music cases study which we’ve all been excited about. We spent our first lesson looking at musical vocabulary such as beat, pitch, volume and melody.
We then had a go at finding the best in a piece of music which took us a bit of practice but we got there eventually.
To continue our computing lessons, Crew Hamill went on a safari hunt around school! However, we weren’t trying to hunt out animals 🦓🐅🦒 we were searching for technology 💻🖨️📱We went around school and made a list of all the technology we could find and made a note of where things were. It was amazing to see just how much technology there is in Carcroft Primary – computers, laptops, interactive screens and printers just to name a few.
In music so far we have learnt how many clap you do for each animal and to put into a song
