Today in Crew we celebrated National Fitness Day by completing a Joe Wicks Active 8 workout!
National Fitness Day
Category : Curriculum
A surprise visitor in Crew McGlone!
Whilst we were having fun in the sunshine in our outdoor area, someone (or something) visited our classroom and left us a little gift! We noticed that there were footprints near our reading area, along with a mystery gift bag. We talked about what might have left the footprints and what might be in the bag.
Miss McGlone then told us that the mystery visitor had been caught on camera and showed us pictures of a bear stood in our classroom! We said that the bear looked cute and fluffy and that it must be a kind bear because it left us a present! We predicted what we thought might be in the bag before finding out it was a… book! A book called ‘The Everywhere Bear’. We used our noticing lens to talk about what we could see on the front cover and thought the story might be about children at school who find a bear. We cannot wait to read our new story and we feel very lucky that the bear decided to leave us such a lovely gift!
Instruction writing in MI
Our expeditionary learning continued this afternoon where we tasted the wartime food that we made yesterday! We then moved onto thinking about the features needed to write a set of instructions. Our do now allowed us to read our recipe from yesterday, we read out-loud with our partner practising our fluency and pace of reading. We then voiced the steps needed to make the cauliflower pie and ensured our steps were in chronological order. We then started to think about the method in more detail, creating anchor charts for time words, conjunctions and imperative verbs. We then took part in a shared write using the steps and putting them into sentences with the features we had just discussed. We have made a good start and will continue with our instructions tomorrow.
Collective and Partitive Nouns
Today, Crew Hamill took part in a range of activities in mini crews to consolidate our learning on collective nouns (that are used for a group) and partitive nouns (that are used to tell us how much of something we have). We began by playing one of our favourite games – corners – in which we went to a side of the room depending on whether the noun we were showed was collective or partitive. Following this, we worked in mini crews to organise a list of nouns into groups – one group of collective nouns and one group of partitive nouns. Our next activity was to match up the collective or partitive noun to the single noun it belonged to (e.g. flock of -> sheep). We then completed a kahoot! quiz which assessed our learning and completed an exit ticket to independently demonstrate what we had learned and could remember.
Common and Proper Nouns
To consolidate our learning on common and proper nouns, Crew Hamill took part in a practical grammar lesson. We began by playing corners. Miss Hamill showed us a selection of nouns on the board and we had to decide whether they were a common (general) noun or a proper (specific) noun that needed a capital letter. Once we had done this, we recapped looking at these nouns within a sentence and how we would decide which was which. Miss Hamill had disguised the capital letters to make it that little bit more tricky for us but we were able to work in mini crews to underline proper nouns and circle common nouns within the same sentence. We then took part in a kahoot! quiz to assess how much we had remembered.
Estimating numbers to 10000
To consolidate our learning, Crew Hamill took part in a practical lesson in which we became a number line to 10,000 in order to deepen our understanding on how to estimate numbers on a number line. We began by each being a different number, starting with our start and end numbers (0 and 10,000) and adding in the interval half way (5000) and half way again (2500 and 7500). Remaining children were then given a number between 0 and 10,000 and had to decide where they would place themselves along the line, thinking carefully about which of our interval numbers they would stand between and which one they would be closer to based on the value of their number. Once we had done this, we then worked in mini crews to mark on different interval values on number lines to 10,000 and placed a range of numbers where we estimated they belonged onto each line.
Are you cut out for space?
On Monday, Crew Hamill began focusing on a new text which was an extra from An Astronaut’s Handbook. Our extract focused on what an astronaut was and where they travel to – space. We started our session by watching a video of Richard Branson and his team travelling into space, allowing us to see what it would be like to launch into space in a rocket. We then travelled to the blue room to immerse ourselves into a similar situation – a confined, dark space with the lights of the milky way and stars. We then listened as Miss Hamill read through the text for the first time, pulling out different vocabulary words and ensuring we understood what we were reading. Following this, we went back to class and skimmed and scanned the text for words, phrases and sentences that we felt comfortable reading. We then re-read the text as a whole crew with everyone joining in when they reached a highlighted word, phrase or sentence. Finally, we text marked our extract, underlining and defining key vocabulary, starring the key information and drawing an exclamation mark when we thought there was an important fact.
WW2 foods in MI
Today we discussed the need for making rations spread further and creating meals from the foods people had available. We explored a range of recipes, looking at the ingredients needed and the method involved. We discussed that ingredients were limited and recipes were simple. We worked in mini crews to make a wartime food- cauliflower pie, using a set of ingredients and a method. Once we had created our wartime food we discussed how the dishes in world war 2 were different to our favourite meals today.
Grammar continues in MI
Today we consolidated our learning on being verbs. We were introduced to this on Friday with Mrs Ibbotson and we had a further lesson to ensure we really understood the concept. We started the lesson by recapping past and present tense. We then voiced how different sentences could be past or present by highlight the verb ‘to be’. We remembered that present tense verbs included am, are and is and past tense verbs use was and were. We then recapped singular and plural, thinking of our own examples and sharing these in mini crews before the whole crew. From here we moved onto pronouns replacing Mrs McClare with other pronouns and thinking about both males and females. We then thought about which pronouns can be singular and which are plural. We explored the ‘you’ pronoun in more detail as we realised that this pronoun can be both singular and plural! We looked at different examples and discussed if the sentences were singular or plural, past or present. Our next few activities allowed us to consolidate all these concepts we had worked on. A really great lesson today 🙂
Scotties!
In Scotties we had to work in pairs and individually as he tested our teamwork and fitness skills. We had to complete a variety of different actives such as piggy backs, frog jumps, wheelbarrow and then a range of running activities too.
