Being Historians in our Local Area

4th June 2024Laura Godley

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.

Local walk

4th June 2024Lauren Marsh

Today we went on a local walk around Carcroft to see all of the buildings that have changed over time, we had a tick list to find – DFS (which used to be a furniture shop), Iceland (which used to be a picture house), Coffee corner (Which used to be a chapel) and the old auction room.

We also visited the memorial wheel and did some sketches of it.

Experience day lesson continues in MI

4th June 2024Stacey McClare

Today we continued with our experience day lesson from yesterday! We will be writing a persuasive letter to Mrs Atherton to ask her if we can become beekeepers! We recapped our learning from yesterday discussing emotive language, flattery and alliteration. We had another look at some of the ideas on our anchor chart where we described Mrs Atherton! We can’t wait to add these to our persuasive letters when we come to write them.

Today we thought about why crew MI are so amazing and how we can show we are. We worked in mini crews to build ideas then produced a class anchor chart. We then looked at a variety of video clips building background knowledge on the benefits of bees and why beekeeping is important. We build ideas in mini crews then as a whole crew. We then used our ideas and put them into some sentences. We are really enjoying our new writing unit 🙂

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.