Today we’re researching endangered animals ready to begin our monologue tomorrow. Again, we are using scanning skills to read at speed to build up our background knowledge. Some of us are researching the northern tiger cat, white bellied spider monkeys and others are researching giant otters.
Category : Reading in Action
BBK – Animals in danger
This morning we’re researching animals that are in danger to build our background knowledge. We are focusing on fluency skills to really ensure we understand what we are reading. I praise how some children are rereading our text to double check we are understanding what we are reading.
Now we understand a little more about animals in danger, we are creating our own BBK poster.
World Book Day – Crew Shields
It was lovely to see the children dressed as their favourite characters. The year 5 children supported our younger this children by listening to them read. It was especially nice seeing siblings match up and read together.
Year 3 and 6 Reading (25.2.22) 📚
What a lovely morning it was seeing Crew McLoughlin reading their independent writing to Crew Flaherty and Crew Gerrard. It was fantastic to see our Year 3 pupils share their stories to the Year 6s too. It was a lovely atmosphere throughout!
Improving pace and stamina in academic crew 📖
In crew this morning we were timed to answering 3 questions in 10 minutes and challenged to green by creating our own questions for peers within this time limit. We loved getting active and learning at the same time. Reading pace and stamina has been our focus this half term in academic crew and we can definitely see an improvement.
Crew MI
We have had a very busy day in Crew MI!
In reading the children used their inference skills to think about images and how they may relate to our new text. There were some fantastic ideas and children shared their thoughts really well.
In writing we watched part of the film The Lorax. We thought about how the film linked to our guiding question in expedition and we completed a role on the wall thinking about the characters appearance and personality. Again some great ideas!
In expedition we became geographers where we explored compass points and maps. We thought about what countries are on the equator along with exploring the tropics.
In maths we practised our timetables, divided numbers by ten and added decimals. We then moved onto looking at multiples. We worked on varied fluency questions first then challenged ourselves with some reasoning and problem solving questions.
Tomorrow I would like to see our howl score improve, we have pledged for this to be a 3. I really hope we can show this.
Inference Detectives! (8.12.21)👮♀️👮♂️
Year 3 practiced their inference skills today, in mini-Crews. But first, we had to practice our fluency of reading with echo reading – job well done, guys! We then moved onto being inference detectives as we became confident with reading between the lines of a book and explaining our reasons. What a great lesson Year 3! 😆
