The children LOVED their music session today! We rocked out to the beat of some iconic tunes, looking the composure, beat and tone. We can’t wait for next week!
Magical Music in KS1
Category : Curriculum
Say it, Write it, make it and partition it – 29/9/22
Today in Maths, we have spent time on ensuring we are secure with place value of numbers up to one million. This involved us saying the number, writing it in words, making it on a place value grid and partitioning it. This is an area we have found difficult at times so it was important to take the time and practice this.
LKS2 Ration Plates! 🥬🍞🥚
Today, LKS2 looked into the consequences of rationing and how it worked. As part of answering our Guiding Question, How does war change lives?, LKS2 looked into the sharing of food during the Second World War. We learned that, due to rationing, the enemy tried to make us starve so that we gave up and surrendered. We learned that chocolate, much to our dismay, would only last a week. Despite this, there were many positives! Rationing stopped us from starving and we actually became healthier as a result of the food eaten!
LKS2 Blitz Learning! 🕵️♂️🕵️
LKS2 have had an amazing day, learning all about The Blitz. We have used various sources to learn about what The Blitz was, why it happened and how it happened. We have done notices and wonders around pictures, watched video clips, built anchor charts, read some information texts and made fact files. LKS2 really do know How War Affects Lives. Keep up the amazing work, crews.
We have all created a wide variety of posters to show off this learning today and it is lovely to see so much beautiful work from Year 3 and 4. We also found it particularly interesting that during the Blitz, Buckingham Palace was bombed twice!
What a great start to the week, LKS2! 😆
A great Tuesday in MI
MI started the day well in our challenge crew session. MI had to work together to pass around objects without making a sound. As we made progress with this, we added more objects, changed the direction in the circle and added time limits. A great sense of team work and encouragement from all.
MI have started planning their independent write today. We built our own target grids based on the features from the rubric that we had used previously in our first narrative and used the lenses too. We then used our graphic organiser well to build our own ideas. Children used post it notes to build some of their own sentences using both their target grids and graphic organiser as support. I can’t wait for children to get writing tomorrow and to read their first plot point.
LKS2 Beautiful work! 📝
LKS2 have created some Beautiful Work this week. We have been writing postcards, putting ourselves into the shoes of an evacuee. We really loved how the children used the vocabulary built up from our drama days to put into their writing. We noticed some great adjectives to describe their experiences. We loved how the children worked really hard to add feelings and emotions – these were great. The children have have critiqued each others work and edited; they have then made a best draft which they wrote up on to a postcard!
LKS2 Fantastic Footballers ⚽️
Today, Year 3 continued to work on their football skills. Last week, we learned how to dribble the football and this week, we learned how to pass the ball accurately. By the end of the session, we were able to pass the ball with more control through narrow cones. More impressively, our first touch was pretty solid. Keep up the good work Year 3!
Sentence stacking in MI
MI’s first sentence stackers 🙂 There has been some great writing happening in MI over the last 2 weeks and it has been lovely adding everyones sentences to our display 🙂
Blown away by the HoWLs in Crew Welburn this morning!
This morning I visited Crew Welburn- F2 during their Expedition lesson, whereby they were focussing on developing their creative skills including painting using a fork to create texture and pattern, using their body parts and paint (hands) to create images and practising their drawing and cutting skills. I was blown away by how focussed the children were throughout the Crew. I spotted some fabulous modelling from all of the adults today and the children were really watching so that they could get smart. Finally, I just loved the kindness in this crew, so many children supporting one another to help them to be the best they can be. What a fabulous lesson for Crew Welburn- keep up the ‘great’ work!
Handwriting in MI
MI had great handwriting session this afternoon. They thought about the work hard howl by ensuring they had a positive attitude to their learning but they also thought about the get smart howl by producing beautiful work they are proud of. MI were really engaged and are really trying hard to form all letters correctly whilst finding their own consistent style.
