In sports week we had a visitor in school today called Rebekah Green who is part of the GB Freestyle Kayaking Team. Crew Haddock got the opportunity to spend some time with her and did a few work outs. Here is how we did:
Sports Week
Category : Curriculum
Character Description
Today we started out character description in writing. The character we have chosen is Augustus Gloop. The children had 6 different pictures and they had to have ago at describing each one using different adjectives.
Maths in Crew Haddock
Today in Maths we were looking at place value . We also had ago at making different numbers using base ten.
Circuit training with Becky
This morning we loved working with Becky, we did star jumps, mountain climbers, push ups and spotty dogs.
Circuit training with Becky
This morning we loved our circuit training with Becky, we did star jumps, mountain climbers, push ups and spotty dogs.
Becky Green – an inspiration!
What a fantastic way to kick start our sport week with a GB Freestyler Kayaker! Becky Green inspired children this morning with her passion for kayaking, at such a young age she has achieved so much! Our children practised some key skills and exercises to get their bodies moving.
Fitness circuit with Becky Green
Arithmetic
In arithmetic, we have worked hard to ensure we are using the squares in our maths books accurately, ensuring there is one number in each square. We have also worked hard to ensure all of our numbers are formed correctly, a ruler is used to draw any lines and we use appropriate spaces between calculations so that we can read our work properly and it is presented to the best of our ability. We focused on addition of 3 digit numbers with exchanging and some of us were even able to move on to four and five digit numbers!
Building Background Knowledge – Experience Lesson
Today, Crew Hamill continued with their new writing genre: a character description. In this lesson we identified as much information about Augustus Gloop in order to be able to write a description about his appearance and his personality/attitude. We started our BBK by writing down everything we already knew about him, recalling information from our reading lessons (in which we focused on a poem all about him) and from our previous writing lessons (in which we wrote a narrative based on a short section of the film). We then watched some clips of Augustus from the film and used the to add further information to our BBK. Finally, we looked at some different images of Augustus at different points throughout the film and really drew our attention to his appearance so that we could add even more information and create a bank of vocabulary about his key features: eyes, mouth, hair and clothes. We are going to use all of this information in our writing next week to help us describe him in detail!
Book Talk – Non-Fiction
This week, Crew Hamill have begun to focus on non-fiction texts in our reading session. We focused on a double page spread from an information book all about the Mayans which links to our expedition. We began by discussion how we knew what this text was going to be about, drawing attention to the title of the double page spread: What happened to the Maya? We then continued with our focus of reading for accuracy and have used our rulers to guide our eyes as to the line we are reading and our fingers to guide to each word. We have practiced reading aloud as well as reading in our heads. Additionally, we have used our text marking skills to identify key vocabulary, key information and things that we find interesting, surprising or a connection to. We tested our recall of the vocabulary we identified by walking around the room and matching our vocabulary words to their definitions. We found some of these a bit tricky but were able to complete this successfully. We have also answered some vocabulary and retrieval questions with our talk partners to delve a little deeper into what we have read.
