In nursery we have been learning how to use musical tracing maps to warm up our fingers for our fine motor learning. These are also a great tool for building, language, physical, attention, listening, shape and pattern development. You can also do these at home by the use of YouTube 🙂
To start the lessons, we reminded ourselves of what we’d discovered last week when we were tinkering with scratch. We thought of 5 things then shared this with our partners.
Once we had reminded ourselves of the capabilities of Scratch, we explored making a loop by using sounds for our sprite and having them play the sounds at the same time.
Crew Ramsay and Crew Barber had a very special visit from our local Firefighters today! We learned about their Firetruck and even had a go sitting in the cabin! This was a lovely ending to our first case study about Firefighters!
In Crew Ramsay, we have been getting to know Vlad The Flea. We had a story time, watched videos about The Great Fire of London, learned new words for ‘little’ and then did a whip-around protocol to share facts about Vlad. We are now so excited to get writing about Vlad in our Literacy topic!
Today was Experience Day in our writing lesson, Crew McLoughlin practised their roleplaying skills through recreating scenes from The Lorax. Working in mini crews, everyone planned, rehearsed, and then performed their scenes for the class. There was plenty of creativity, teamwork and communication! Our crew particularly enjoyed guessing which scene each group was performing! This was a great way kick start our new writing unit.
In writing, Crew Gray have had their experience Day where they have immersed themselves in The Lorax. We watched the first part of the movie to familiarise ourselves with the story then we split into mini crews to do some roleplay. Each mini crew selected a scene, acted it out before performing to the rest of the class who guessed which scene they had. Massive well done to the children who pushed themselves out of their comfort zone and give it their best effort.
so today in life skills the children got to bake buns. They work hard all week looking at what ingredients they needed. Then they looked at Asda online and prices up how much it would cost.Followed by looking at what equipment was needed and to not forget to wash our hands and clean the table . We hope the staff enjoyed their bun.
Crew Rankin are loving their Reading Crew sessions on a Friday! We have been loving spending some time reading for enjoyment with the books we have been able to choose from our school library. Some of us have now finished our first books so have been to the library again today to change them for new ones!
Today in crew we had to use cocktail sticks and marshmallows to make a 3d shape. Here’s how we got on
This week in Crew Rankin, we have taken control of our own learning!
We’ve been stepping up to the board during Maths, explaining our thinking, and helping each other understand new ideas. It felt a bit strange at first, but was really empowering too.
Taking charge like this has helped us grow more confident, not just in what we know, but in how we share it. When we teach our classmates, we realise how much we’ve actually learned – and sometimes, we find new ways of thinking about things together as a crew.
We’ve really enjoyed this experience. It’s made our crew stronger and we now know that everyone has something valuable to offer.
