In our experience lesson this morning we experienced how Vlad felt running through fire. We came up with some amazing sentence.
Experiencing running through fire 🔥
Category : Writing
Experience lesson in MI
For our Writing Experience Lesson we went into the forest area where we shared our new text. This helped with visualising what the rainforest may be like instead of being in the classroom. We explored and unpicked the front cover and blurb, making predictions before we started reading. We looked at the pictures throughout the book and how they related to the story. We used our senses throughout our discussions, this will support us when writing in a few days. When back in the classroom we started some chotting around the 5 senses. Children then added to our classroom display using our chotting and from reading the text. This helped us to visualise what a rainforest may be like.
BBK/Chotting
In writing, we have been using our reading text to help us build background knowledge and start chotting some ideas to support our writing. Each group had a small amount of text to read and then they had to summarise for the rest of the crew. We have discovered that summarising is a skill that we will need to develop during our time in year 4.
The Great Fire of London 🔥🏠
After building our houses yesterday, today we recreated the Great Fire of London. We all sat and watched how quickly the fire moved from one house to the next so quickly – it only took 30 minutes to burn down all of the buildings, like the 3 days it took for the Great Fire of London. We spoke about what language we could use in our writing such as fire, smoke, spreading, roaring, burning.
Fall in!!
During our experience lesson, we had the opportunity to experience some of the criteria that was required to be a Roman soldier.
We measured each other’s height, checked our eyesight and hearing and whether we could follow orders. We even discussed some recruitment questions that would test our loyalty to Rome.
Unfortunately, Crew Shields would be unable to join the Roman army because we didn’t meet the height requirement of 1.75m but even if we did, some didn’t show blind loyalty to Rome.
Could you be a Roman Soldier?
During our first English lesson, we discovered what it took to be a Roman Soldier. Using the criteria, we tested ourselves to see whether we had what it takes to be a Roman Soldier ourselves. Use our checklist to decide if YOU could be a Roman Soldier too:
- 1.75m tall
- Good hearing
- Good eyesight
- Able to follow instructions
- Answer ‘yes’ to some tricky questions (e.g. If your brother went against you and fought for the other side, could you kill him?)
Making bread in our bakery 🧑🏼🍳🍞
Today in our experience lesson we made bread in the bakery, the first stop of the Great fire of London.
A day in the life of a baker 👩🍳 🍞
In KS1 we are answering the guiding question, What will I do to be a hero in our community? To begin our expedition we are exploring firefighters 🚒 a very brave hero!
To hook us into our new writing we looked into our new book – Vlad and the Great Fire of London. We pieced together the book front cover, predicted what might happen and then became bakers for the morning, experiencing how Vlad and Boxton would have felt in the bakers shop. We baked and tasted some delicious bread 🥖
Rainbow fish experience lesson 🐠
In Crew Marsh we read and unpicked the book Rainbow fish, we learnt that the fish was not kind at the start of the book but became kind towards the end. We linked this to our be kind Howls. Then the children created their own rainbow fish which is going to go in our crew kindness fish tank. All children did an amazing job at describing their rainbow fish with an adjective.
Independent write
Last week, Crew Shields completed their last independent write of year 5. We used a video stimulus for our writing and had the opportunity to plan and chot before writing.
This was an opportunity for Crew Shields to showcase what they can do but also help highlight any areas for development for year 6.
