In grammar, we continued to explore irregular verbs and how these change in the past tense. These are words that children will need to learn so we verbally practiced using my turn your turn.
Irregular Verbs
Category : Curriculum
Testimony of Evacuees
In our history lesson, we explored further the experiences of children during wartimes and what life was like as an evacuee. This required us to use our reading skills so we could skim and scan the text before making inferences. Once we had read and understood the text we completed some details about each person. We discovered that some children had positive experiences during wartimes but unfortunately there were children who had quite negative experiences as an evacuee.
Identifying the subject
During the last week of half term, Crew Hamill have worked hard to identify the subject of a sentence. The subject is who or what is doing the action within the sentence. To help us do this, we followed a script in which we identified the first verb (action word) and then asked ourselves who or what did that action. To consolidate this learning, we were given jumbled up sentences. Our first job was to structure our sentences. We knew they began with a capital letter and ended with a full stop so these were the first cards we placed. Then we organised the rest of the words until we had a fully independent clause that made sense. Once we’d done this, we identified the verb and subject.
Scotty
Crew Godley had an amazing time at Scotty’s . They did den building and then played hide and seek. This is definitely a life skill they need.
Cutting and Cleaning
In Crew we like to learn life skills and brush up our fine motor skills. The children are getting used to sharing and taking in turns, which is fantastic!
Outside Learning.
Using chalk paint on different surfaces and making music.
May the forces be with you
During our case study 2 learning, we have been learning all about gravity and friction.
We first of all watched a video introducing gravity, and we also read an informational text about Sir Issac Newton – the scientist who created the gravity law. We were then given the task to use newton metres to measure the weight and mass of objects in class.
Once our learning was secure, we moved onto delving deeper into friction. In order to do, this we carried out a class investigation, we made a hypothesis: the smoother the surface the less friction so the object will move quicker. We concluded this was in fact correct and we were shocked to realise the affects of friction on our world.
XP Outdoors
The children really enjoyed making stickmen in the forest area using natural resources and then they work as a crew to make a gaint circle.
History case study reflection in MI
Wow, wow, wow, Crew MI you blew me away this afternoon with the knowledge you showcased on our two history case studies. We thought about our guiding question ‘How does war change lives?’ and answered it through a mind map. We unpicked all the areas that related to our guiding question, we explored what we could remember about those areas and how they answer the guiding question. Children we so engaged and could talk about everything we had looked at throughout the two case studies. We have thoroughly enjoyed our history case studies 🙂
Anne Frank in MI
We have really enjoyed learning about Anne Frank in our expeditionary learning this week. We learnt about Nazi persecution on Jewish people and all about the Holocaust. We have all been so engaged in this subject area this week with so many questions raised. We were all very mature in our approach to this subject and really showcased our best selves.
