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.
This week in Crew we have been learning how to form letters, trying our best at focusing and remembering our phonics sounds. Our next goal is to master how to write our name!
For the past two weeks Crew Frost have been looking at the story Owl Babies in our afternoon expedition, during this session the children were introduced to play dough, their task was to make their very own baby owl. The children particularly enjoyed using feathers and googly eyes to represent the features on their owls, whilst strengthening their fine motor muscles by pinching, splatting and rolling the dough. Well done Crew Frost.
We are having a big push on fine motor this year within nursery to make sure we are ready to write! Our first job of the day is to practice our threading skills, the children have shown how they can concentrate working the thread through the holes, it is alot harder than we think to master! Keep aiming high crew Frost!
In Crew Gray, we have been learning about the ‘to be’ verbs. We worked together to look at some sentences to identify the ‘to be’ verbs which were am, is, are, was, were or will be.
This week crew Frost have been introduced to the early writing programme Squiggle While You Wiggle, this programme offers the first steps to build their fine and gross motor movements. The programme also encourages mark making with meaning whilst incorporating dance, uses of materials, and just lots of fun! We can not wait to see what fine motor skills will develop over the next few weeks.
In writing, we have started our new writing unit today and explored the story that we’ll be using as a stimulus. We watched the story and started to think about the action and feeling lenses which will feature in our writing. We then used the images to start chatting some ideas that link to images using our inference skills. We then spent some time together selecting some Yr 3/4 spellings that would have fit into the context of our writing.
This week the children have been creating story maps about the gingerbread man, from this they have created their own versions how the gingerbread man crossed the river “he could use a surf board” and “he could use a jet pack”. We turned these ideas into drawings and sentences remembering our capital letters, finger spaces, and full stops.
