Today in crew we explored how we are kept safe at school, this is something we revisit daily. The children created an anchor chart to show all the ways we keep safe. We also looked at risks in everyday life such as crossing the road or helping our grown ups in the home.
Following our litter picking yesterday, Crew Hamill recycled the litter we collected and created some polar bear art! We created a giant polar bear out of the cleanest bits of litter we could find!
Whilst this was being completed, we also created mini polar bear collages using two different types of paper. Look at the cute polar bears we created – we were even able to add one to our display to join our larger polar bear!
Today we discovered the country of Africa in our experience lesson.
We started with ‘Waka, Waka’ which the children already know and love.
We then tried lots of different and unusual fruits.
Crew Robson had an amazing time at Scotties Heroes today. Mick was super impressed by their listening and teamwork. Great work crew!!
As part of hook week, Crew Hamill helped to clear some of the rubbish from our school environment. We were surprised at some of the larger items we found! We can’t wait to put this to use in our next hook week task. Keep your eyes peeled… 👀
This afternoon, Crew Shields set off with their litter pickers to start cleaning up our environment. We collected lots of rubbish which will be put to use in our next expedition task. What this space…
As part of hook week, we have been outside on to the school field to pick up some litter. It was really surprising to see how much litter there is on our field. We collected lots of rubbish which we aim to make some artwork out of later on in the week.
Today we explored some of the sculptures Yinka our artist had created. We thought about what we could see and what we thought the art was showing and representing. We offered our own critique giving praises, notices and wonders for each piece of art. We learnt that Yinka created the art in response to migration and the structures mimic the sails of the ships as they migrate across the sea. We then looked at a model that our teachers had created! We enjoyed giving praises, notices and wonders for this! We then got busy on our own sculptures!
Here are our finished book covers which will be part of our cultural diversity display in our library. We enjoyed using African patterns on our art work as well as thinking about the significant people in our lives who will be on the spine of our books.
Today we started to think about what a historian is and what history is. We explored the terms chronological order, reference point and timeline. We thought about the historical events we already knew and tried to think of their place in history. We looked at and explored a world history timeline, placing the events we had voiced in the correct place. We thought about BC and AD and what these mean. We then worked in mini crews to order events in chronological order. We then looked more at where the 19th century is on our timeline and which events in history are around this time.
