Crew Hamill have had lots of fun during storytelling week. We have fully immersed ourselves in our class text and we are loving finding out what is happening between April and Bear (the polar bear). We have enjoyed a trip to the library and have had discussions about our favourite books and characters. Today, we ended storytelling week in our pjs and listened to an audiobook whilst having a sneaky biscuit treat! ☺️
Yesterday, Crew Hamill were learning about the different components of a computer. We were able to recognise and name the parts of a computer, using subject specific vocabulary: buttons, desktop, laptop, mouse, keyboard, computer and monitor. Following this, we used some computer software called Sketchpad to design a laptop, ensuring we created each of its individual parts – the screen, the keyboard and the mouse.
Crew MI have been working really hard this week consolidating their knowledge on place value, arithmetic and shape. Drip feeding this every day is really helping us to remember.
Over the last two days, we have watched a clip about a man who loves beans. In fact, he loves them so much he got a job at the beans factory. The clip showed his journey through life: getting, married, having twins and inventing new cans for different occasions (beans for one, beans for two, snack). We then developed our inference skills and acted out the scenes from the clip- sharing our ideas and what we thought the characters were thinking and feeling.
To finish storybook week, Sharni-Mae read a story to Ates this afternoon. It was lovely to hear Sharni reading to Ates📚📖
We’ve had a lovely week exploring all of our favourite stories this week and challenging ourselves with riddles and story trivia. We really do know our stories well! I have been so proud of the children that have really tried hard to read at home each night too, Thomas has reached the top of our beanstalk so I wonder what little treat he will discover from our magic book box 📚
This afternoon, we completed our computing lesson! The objective for our lesson was to recognise the parts of a computer. To be successful in this lesson we had to name the key parts of a computer, explain the purpose of different computer parts and explain that a keyboard contains lots of buttons. We then went onto Sketchpad and tried to create our own computer. We found some parts of this quite tricky such as drawing shapes and changing the colour but we were really resilient and showed high levels of determination to complete the task. We can’t wait to continue our learning in computing in the coming weeks.
This morning in crew we went on a number hunt around school to find the digits 1 to 10. We worked hard to use our magnet eyes to make sure we found all the digits. Once we had collected them all, we took them back to the classroom and worked as a crew to put them in the correct order. We did a fantastic job and managed to successfully order the numbers!
We have been practising the colourful technique of Steven Brown so we can apply it to our final piece of a hedgehog.
I have been really impressed with how artistic Crew Marsh is.🖌️
This afternoon, we completed our grammar lesson about subordinate Clauses. We tried to sing along with the song to help us remember them before completing our tasks. We’ve been ensuring we are secure with our conjunctions before moving on to sentence types.
