In our expedition lesson this afternoon, we explored why the Romans came to Doncaster. The Romans came to Doncaster in the AD50’s because of the River Don and the community already living there. We discovered that during the Roman times Doncaster was famous for pottery kilns but is now famous for trains like the Flying Scotsman. We created some lovely posters to show our learning!
During our writing lesson, some children access labs of learning to enhance their knowledge of vocabulary which they then use in their pieces of writing. Today the children were shown how to use the iPads to access a QR code which then led to a step by step video teaching them how to draw Little Red Riding Hood. The children worked in pairs to do this and all worked extremely hard to use these new skills and produced a great piece of art work!
As part of our expedition we have been looking at the British artist, Dennis Creffield. He used charcoal to draw every cathedral in England. We have been using charcoal to draw our school building. We have also thought lots about re-drafting and how we can use kind critique to help each other improve. These are a few of our final pieces 🏫
We have started creating our background to produce our final piece of art work, watch this space……
In our writing lesson today, we have focussed on developing our editing and redrafting skills. First, we read the writing to see if it makes sense. Then, we checked it for features such as: capital letters, full stops, spellings, fronted adverbials and conjunctions. We discussed how we use purple pen to edit the errors in our work. Tomorrow, we will continue to write plot point 4 so we can put our editing and redrafting skills into practice.
Today in Scotty’s Heroes, Crew Boswell were put through a variety of challenging workouts with a partner. 💪
Over the course of 2 lessons, the children studied maps that gave them information about where the Romans settled. They then used information around the room to help them annotate their map with information about why the Romans settled in spectating places. For instance they settled in Londinium (London) because they could transport people and goods on the river Thames.
This week it was lovely to lead KS1s Community Meeting and be a part of all of the celebrations! From Star Readers 📚📖 to Learning Legends 🌟🏆! It was also lovely to hear what each Crew had been up last week and who the superstars were for reading, writing, maths and PE! Well done to you all! 👏
This week the children made apple French toast, hope everyone enjoyed eating it for pudding tonight!!
Today the weather was a bit rubbish so we made lady birds and dog origami.
Today in Crew Pashley, we practiced counting different amounts using different objects. We are practicing counting amounts larger than 20 this week. Today, Charlie counted how many treats we had in our treat tub, and how many conkers Miss Haddock had given us. We also matched the number card to the correct amount of apples on the matching card.
