As it is hook week, it’s essential that children have an opportunity to engage in activities that help them immerse themselves in their new learning. Yesterday, the children worked in small groups to make knucklebones which was a game played by Roman children. Each person was asked to come up with their own rules so we are looking forward to playing them once they have dried.
During our experience lesson, we had the opportunity to experience some of the criteria that was required to be a Roman soldier.
We measured each other’s height, checked our eyesight and hearing and whether we could follow orders. We even discussed some recruitment questions that would test our loyalty to Rome.
Unfortunately, Crew Shields would be unable to join the Roman army because we didn’t meet the height requirement of 1.75m but even if we did, some didn’t show blind loyalty to Rome.
During our first English lesson, we discovered what it took to be a Roman Soldier. Using the criteria, we tested ourselves to see whether we had what it takes to be a Roman Soldier ourselves. Use our checklist to decide if YOU could be a Roman Soldier too:
As part of hook week, we learnt about a game that the Roman’s used to play called Knucklebones. We learnt all about the rules and then created our own rules for our own version of the game. Using clay, we carefully modelled our own knucklebone pieces. We are SO excited for them to dry so that we can give our game a go.
We started our Place Value unit with a practical lesson focusing on our numbers to 20. We used bead bars to represent our numbers, partitioned numbers into tens and ones and even had a go at independently writing our numbers in words.
Crew Hamill worked really hard to complete their art project last week. Over our first 3 days we carefully designed a print that was inspired by “What makes me, me.” We created a draft of our design which was something that represented us – our house, our pets, our hobbies. We then transferred our designs onto cardboard and carefully added string, meticulously following the lines we had drawn. Finally, we painted our string using two different colours and printed this onto card. We’re really proud of our results.
KS1 strengthened their crews last week by having a real focus on Crew, what does it mean to us and the wider community. Our guiding questions were, ‘How does what I do, impact others?’ and ‘Does crew stop at the school gates?’. With this in mind you’ll have noticed in our blogs last week that we delivered books and kindness stones to the local community to show kindness and care. Well…….. we were so excited to see that some of these have been found and brought joy to other children outside of our school community. The children were so excited to see this in morning crew today 😊
Mrs Ibbotson joined us for our story this afternoon! She read ‘The Vanishing Rainforest’ which we all enjoyed. This linked to our expeditionary learning and created some great discussions throughout the story.
We finished the day with some handwriting practice. We are really trying to work on our letter formation and will consolidate the letters we practised in our morning task tomorrow.
Today we started our geography case study where we started to explore geographical zones of the world. We explored both a globe and map of the world thinking about continents of the world and the countries that belong to each continent. We looked at the equator and what it is along with the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. We found the seas and oceans of the world and discussed the northern and southern hemisphere. Also we thought about time zones and what these are. We watched a video clip to help consolidate our learning then took part in a quiz to assess our understanding. We all discussed our green challenge question working collaboratively to support each others answers.
Today we have enjoyed diving into the rainforest through a virtual reality workshop. We enjoyed flying over the emergent layer of the rainforest as well as coming face to face with some of the Amazonian animals including capuchin monkeys, leopards and sloths! We also started to think about the impact of deforestation and why this is happening. Tomorrow we will be reflecting on the workshop further where we will write our own recount, these will be added to our blog for everyone to read 🙂
