Children were so excited to visit our local park to celebrate their excellent HoWLs. These children are always kind, going above and beyond to help their peers whilst also working hard and getting smart. It was such a lovely treat!
This week in Scottie’s we had some tricky challenges to complete. Not only did we have to work in small crews in which we were blindfolded, we had to rely on our crew mates to give us specific instructions. It was tricky however we found that clear and concise instructions were the best way to solve the challenges.
Today we explored emotive language and rhetorical questions, two key features we need to use when writing our persuasive letters. First we watched a clip exploring emotive language. We were given a range of pictures where we showed the emotion we felt. There was many laughs and giggles for some of these! We then discussed why writers use emotive language and the impact on the reader. Next we were given a range of language, we had to group the words under 4 headings- happy, excited, sad and angry. We worked in mini crews to discuss each word finding the synonyms. We then shared these back with the whole crew. Next we explored different scenarios where we discussed how the scenarios made us feel and which words were emotive.
We then moved onto rhetorical questions where we thought about the sections of our letter and where rhetorical questions could go. We used a range of sentence starters to help us build our own rhetorical questions in mini crews then shared these back with the whole crew. Our debrief allowed us to discuss how the rhetorical questions make us feel and the impact they will have on Mrs Atherton when she reads our persuasive letters!
Today we joined Amy in the kitchen where she discussed food hygiene and safety with us. She gave us a tour of the kitchen and showed us what happens on a daily basis when preparing our school dinners. She discussed the equipment she uses and why certain chopping boards are certain colours. She talked about cross contamination and why basic food hygiene is so important. She then showed us the school fridge and discussed where foods need to go. She linked this back to cross contamination. This was such a great opportunity for us and will support us in our first design and technology lesson tomorrow 🙂
This week we have written our science report about how chocolate changes state when heat is applied. As with writing, we have edited and redrafted our work this afternoon before we publish the piece of work. This allows us to pull the skills we’ve been learning in writing through to other areas of the curriculum.
Today in scotties, the children had to lead each other through the maze while they are blindfolded . Then the played a game of how many cones they could pick up whiles blindfolded.
Today in writing we had our experience day looking at a non chronological report . The children noticed that the report can go in any order .We also used google to find out facts about the Maya people.
In Crew MW, we have been creating our collages ready to be included in our final product. We started by practising our cutting skills before applying them to cut out an outline of a creature from under the sea. We cut along different types of lines and even challenged ourselves to cut around shapes!
After a discussion around collaging and the skills needed to do this, we then began to collage our creatures to create our first draft.
We then spent time doing a gallery walk to provide our peers with praises and wonders to form critique to make our sea creature collages even better. We talked about using different materials in different ways to create different textures, as well as making sure that most of the white areas were covered to make our collage look more effective. We then got to work acting upon these wonders, reflecting on making improvements to our existing work.
In PE this week, we started looking at fundamentals, starting with balancing. We imagined we were tightrope walkers at the circus and began by practising walking in a straight line with our arms outstretched to the side. We then used a balance beam to walk across, concentrating on how we could stay balanced. Some of us were a little apprehensive about this beforehand, but as a crew we encouraged everyone to have a go and we were all successful!
Today we continued to be historians, exploring our village of Carcroft. We went on a local walk to see all of the buildings that have changed over time, we had a tick list to find – DFS (which used to be an old pub), Iceland (which used to be a picture house), Coffee corner (Which used to be a chapel) and the old auction room (which used to be a farriers). We noticed and wondered about how any why these buildings changed. Leo suggested that the more people lived in Carcroft so more shops were needed like Iceland and Asda.
We also visited the memorial wheel and did some sketches of it.
On the way back to school we noticed a very peculiar tree, we became scientists and investigated this, it was the workings of the processionary moth.
