Crew MW have been working hard on their writing skills today. After a visit from Goldilocks, they wanted to tell Miss Welburn how to make porridge like they did with Miss McGlone on Tuesday. They worked hard to build sentences together in a group and then to pinch their sounds using their Fred fingers and spell the words to make captions. We’re really impressed with the captions that they came up with!
Building on our knowledge from the previous lesson, we’ve compared the UK and Svalbard which is a country we will be learning more about as we end out geography Case study and start the science work. We discussed how there are differences due to them being in different geographical zones. Even better that we were asking questions about Svalbard such as the distance from the UK to Svalbard, are you able to travel to Svalbard?
On Tuesday, we spent the lesson discussing the human and physical features of Italy and Africa. The aim was to compare 2 places from different geographical zones and start to understand why there are differences between them based on where they are located in the world. We enjoyed finding out different information and we were totally surprised that Africa has approximately an eighth of the worlds population.
Yesterday, Crew Hamill had their memory skills put to the test when they took part in a group game at Scotty’s. In mini crews, we had to remember a message and pass it on to our crew mates without forgetting any of the words. The last person in our crew had to relay the message back to the Scotty’s leader and we got a point for every word we remembered! This was tricky enough, but we also had to take part in an obstacle course that was designed to distract us and make us forget.
To continue with our French learning, we looked at describing items of clothing in more detail using our previous knowledge of colours. We looked at the sentence structure, as it is slightly different to how we would order our words in English, before reading the phrases and choosing the correct colour for the correct item of clothing.
We have been looking at our throwing skills in PE. We were introduced to over arm and under arm throws. So that we could practice both of these throws, we threw imaginary snowballs! We split into 2 groups and, with the help of some very kind children from Crew Marsh, completed two different activity stations. One station required us to use the over arm throw to hit the wall from a certain distance, the other station needed us to use the under arm throw to get the beanbag into the hoop target.
We have been investigating capacity in Crew MW. We had a number of containers on our table and had to discuss which we thought would hold the most and the least water. The only way we could find out was to investigate by filling them up!
We made our predictions before counting how many cups of water it would take to fill each container. We worked with a partner to compare the coloured pots first, we all thought that the taller pot would hold the most water.
We were correct! It held 2 cups of water, whereas the smaller pot held only 1 cup.
We then worked as a group to look at the 3 cylindrical containers. We were all very sure that the tallest container would hold the most but we were undecided on whether the thinner or the wider containers would hold the most… so we investigated it!
We were right about the tallest container, that held 8 cups of water! The container that held the least was the small, thin container – that only held 1 cup. The wider, but shorter container held 2 cups of water.
We found a special treat left for us in our classroom… from Goldilocks! She had left us a tray with a bag of oats, milk, bowls, spoons and cups along with a note. The note contained instructions on how to make porridge.
We then worked as a crew to follow the instructions to make the porridge. As we tipped the oats into the bowl, we said that they looked dry and dusty. Max even said that they looked like crumbs! It was funny when we tipped the milk in because all the oats turned sticky so we started to mix. It took a while to mix it but after a while, it started to come together and was ready for the microwave.
We kept checking and stirring it, making sure that it was all mixed together. It started to get hot and we could feel it if we put our hands over the top of it. Some of the porridge even changed colour around the edge of the bowl.
Once the porridge was done, we added some sugar before we all had chance to try it! We waited until it cooled down a little before tucking in! We talked about what it tasted like and said that it was creamy, yummy and tasty.
Thank you Goldilocks!
We looked at the artwork of the French artist, Matisse and talked about how he uses colour and shape to create abstract pieces of art. We looked at some of his pieces based on animals and decided to create our own piece of Matisse-inspired artwork… with a twist! So that we could create our piece, we had to work with a partner to ask them in French for certain shapes, but we were only allowed to use 6! We had to include information about the size, shape and colour we needed. Some of us even challenged ourselves by saying ‘I would like…, please’ and ‘thank you’ in French too!
Once we had finished, we did a gallery walk around the classroom to view the pieces created by the rest of our crew. We shared praises and notices whilst we were moving around the room. Take a look at some of our finished pieces! ✨
