We got active today in Crew White in order to learn this week’s spellings. Each team had to send one person at a time to write a letter of the word that needed to be spelled. The first team to spell the word correctly, won the point. I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-C-E!
In Crew White, we have been perfecting our knowledge of word classes by building funny, strange and…interesting sentences. Ever heard a sentence including brainrot before? Apparently, it’s something a lot of Year 6s are very familiar with. At least we now know that it is a noun, can be modified using adjectives and we can give extra detail about it using parenthesis, which can be embedded into a sentence using brackets, dashes or commas. See, grammar can be fun!
We have started our independent writing which is a recount inspired by The Day The crayons Quit. Here we are taking great pride in our work and getting smart by being aware of our targets.
This week, a Year 4 pupil popped in to show me her independent writing and I couldn’t have been more pleased. I’m not her class teacher, but I do teach her reading, which made it extra special.
She explained how our reading lessons inspired her writing and it was lovely to see her making those links all by herself. It really shows her growing confidence and love of learning.
Miss McLoughlin is so proud of the effort and enthusiasm she’s shown. Moments like this really do make our day!
Well done – keep up the brilliant work! 🌟
By children in Crew McLoughlin.
While Miss was working with part of the class to redraft a plot point, we were independently up-levelling our Tudor diary writing. Our diary is all about attending a royal Tudor banquet and we have been editing and improving it using ‘ARMS’ to add, remove, move and substitute ideas.
We have been including what we learned in grammar lessons, like expanded noun phrases, pronouns, adverbials, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions and parenthesis.
Our diary writing shows how the Tudors lived their daily lives and how sometimes their punishments didn’t fit the crime. We have really enjoyed revising our plot points and becoming more independent confident editors of our own work. We are proud of how much our writing has improved!
In Crew Gray this week, we have been sharing our fantastic writing from our recounts of our Tudor banquet with one another. We shared two stars and a wonder for each others work, allowing us to edit and revise them, before we share them with Miss Ramsey our audience for this piece of writing.
Crew McLoughlin has had a fun and creative learning experience today in order to redraft a plot point of their diary.We took part in an imaginative role-play activity, where we pretended to be a Tudor getting ready to attended a special banquet. We imagined waking up, getting dress and walking into the hall. This is to help us write a diary about our day- what we saw, felt and did.
This week, the children have began using Read Write Inc. practice sheets. These help them to develop their letter formation skills and create clear, recognizable letters. This will be an ongoing activity throughout their school year.
The children practice saying the picture of the sound, the letter sound , then they practice using the picture cards. They then say the phrase as they write, and finally say the sound again while forming the letter. This supports their phonics and early writing development.
We look forward to sending these sheets home as part of home learning and seeing the amazing work that Crew Frost continue to produce.
In writing 2 of the children are learning all about letters and sounds they are learning in RWI.This is also focused on being able to write cvc words and letter formation .Here is some of their work
Fine motor skills are very important for your child’s early development. To support the children in this area Crew Frost were offered a wide range of opportunities during their choosing time.
During this session, the children were given the challenge of following pre-made cutting lines. This activity encourages children to think critically and problem-solve as they work their way through the change in directions, how to hold the paper, and cut using one hand while stabilising the other.
This activity also improves hand-eye coordination, introduces new vocabulary, strengthens fine hand muscles, and supports the foundations for early writing by encouraging left-to-right movement. The opportunies are endless with this activity! Super work Crew Frost!
