In arithmetic, we have been learning about exchanging and how we need to exchange a ten for 10 ones when we don’t have enough to subtract. Children were encouraged to draw the tens and ones above their number so they could see what was happening when they exchange.
This afternoon, we helped to keep our environment tidy by litter picking around the school grounds. It was disappointing to see so much rubbish around the grounds but also large pieces that have been thrown over such as a broken electric scooter and a Christmas tree.
Yesterday we continued our expeditionary learning on evacuation where we built on the knowledge we already had. We imagined we were a parent of two small children living in London’s docklands. We had to decide whether or not to evacuate our children. We considered the factor cards in front of us, reading them aloud with our partner. If we thought the factor card was a reason for evacuation we moved our counter forward on our board. If we thought it was against evacuation we moved it backwards. After doing this, we reviewed the cards again, this time ranking the cards by how important they are to us. We then explained our decision using the sentence starter, “If I were a parent, I would/would not not evacuate my children because… We worked really well in mini-crews, discussing our thoughts and ideas together.
In academic crew this morning, Crew Mcloughlin have reflected on their performance in their latest arithmetic test and wow did we deserve a massive celebration! A high percentage of children have improved their score and some by a whopping 15 marks! We could not be prouder of each and every child in our Crew. The hard work is definitely paying off!
Yesterday, Crew Hamill completed a Padlet in which each child added their own statements to each section, detailing the information they could remember from everything we have learned during our first science case study. Miss Hamill was impressed with just how much we’d remembered!
Today we became Gardners for our fifth castle job. We learnt about how important Gardners were as they planted fruits and vegetables for the kings, queens, lords and ladies to eat at their banquets.
We planted our very own seeds and have taken them home to look after.
In grammar this week, we have been learning about regular verbs and how they change based on whether they are in the past, present or future tense. E.g. The dog barked = past tense, The dog barks = present tense, The dog will bark = future tense.
Children worked in pairs to decide whether a sentence was the last, present or future tense.
Crew Welburn got to go to xp outdoors again this week and because we are now in October we decided to decorate a pumpkin using the natural resources from the forest area.
So today in xp outdoors Crew Hamill made stickmen . They had to use the natural resources from our forest area
Today in mini crews, we created the phases of the moon using Oreos cookies. Crew Elmer had so much fun.
