Book talk in MI

4th June 2024Stacey McClare

Our entry ticket allowed us to develop our inference skills around a picture which certainly raised lots of questions and discussions. We then worked on our words per minute by reading our text again! We really tried to ensure we were being fluent but also taking in what we were reading. We then took part in an echo read, read around the robin and an independent read where we recapped the text and some of the language in it. From here we looked at our reasons to read before acting out parts of the poem! Our exit ticket assessed our understanding of the stanzas in the poem! A great reading lesson MI 🙂

Creating an animation

23rd May 2024Ruth Shields

This afternoon, we continued with our computing unit where we had to create n animation following some instructions. Erik was our expert because he is a whizz on scratch which meant he was able to coach some of the children through the steps. This is something we will continue with next time as we’re hoping now that we’ve been shown how to do it, we can be bit more independent next time.

Is there a mistake?

23rd May 2024Ruth Shields

Yesterday afternoon, we were set the challenge to see if Miss Shields had made any mistakes in the arithmetic test. This is a skill that we’ve been trying to improve as we have been making some minor errors in our arithmetic tests that could be corrected if we ensured we checked our working out. We were able to spot the mistakes and could identify where she had gone wrong.

Find the Shape

23rd May 2024Ruth Shields

Our next writing consisted of starting to unpick the model and look at examples of a non chronological report. We started off the lesson with a silent conversation where we had an opportunity to unpick the features of the model that had been completed for them. Children were good at identifying fronted adverbials, conjunctions, rhetorical questions and subject specific vocabulary.

Next they worked alongside their partner to unpick some double page spreads that are similar to what they will be producing at the end of this piece of writing. We saw some lovely collaboration between the pairs in crew. Once we were happy, we’d picked all the features out, we created a checklist that we’ll use when we write our own plot points.

Experience Lesson – Information Gathering

23rd May 2024Laura Hamill

Today in writing, Crew Hamill gathered as much information as possible about Ancient Maya in order to have the facts we need for our double-page, non-chronological reports. We watched several videos that were full of interesting and detailed facts about the Maya civilisation and then used picture and word prompts to detail these notes, ready for our writing lessons. We found out lots that we were able to add to the knowledge we already had after our history case study. We’re going to come together to chot down as much as possible in our next lesson so that we have plenty to include in our reports.

Grammar – Non Chronological report

23rd May 2024Ruth Shields

In our grammar lesson, we’ve really been honing in on the appropriate fronted adverbials and conjunctions you’d use within a non chronological report. We spent some time thinking about how we could link facts using fronted adverbials and which ones would best fit into the sentence. We also looked at models of a fiction and non fictions piece of writing so we could see the difference between the two. Finally we worked alongside our partner to start putting facts about the Mayans into sentences using appropriate fronted adverbials.

Drawing pictograms

23rd May 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill had so much fun in maths today when we worked as a crew to gather data about all of our favourite things. We then used this data to create pictograms that illustrated our findings. We talked about the key and which pictures and values would be best to represent our data. After we’d done a couple together, we then worked on gathering our own data and producing our own pictograms.

Book Talk – Poetry

23rd May 2024Laura Hamill

This week, Crew Hamill have started something new in reading – poetry! We have looked at the famous poem by Michael Rosen: I love chocolate cake. We have started with an extract of this poem that details his love of chocolate cake as a result of having chocolate cake for tea as a little boy. He talks about a time he had chocolate cake for tea and then crept downstairs for leftovers without wanting to be caught by his mum and dad. We can’t wait to read the next extract to see if he gets away with it or not! We began by text marking the poem, highlighting key vocabulary, interesting parts and things we loved or thought were important. After this, we used our inference and retrieval skills to answer a number of questions about what had happened in the extract. We have also had several opportunities to read aloud, focusing on pausing and pace. Today, we also watched Michael Rosen himself re-telling his poem and made notices about his expression, both in his voice and in his face. We then used this to perform part of the poems ourself!