Welcome to the polar bear explorers club! To really immerse the children into their new book, which they are going to be using to write from, we organised the children to work through a few similar missions to what Stella has to. We started the session with children having to infer what was happening through the personal secret envelopes. The children then experienced what a ship would feel like when surrounded by wolves and unicorns. Once arriving at Coldgate (the hall) the children experienced the harbour and a sled ride to the headquarters.
Category : Writing
LKS2 Experience Day!
As part of Expedition and English, we are going to be writing a letter, as well as a song – keep your eyes peeled for the latter! We worked collaboratively on iPads to be able to see how humans are causing climate change. Check through the images to see how well we worked together!
Crew MI
Another busy day in crew MI!
Children have created some fantastic writing today. They have thought about their gold standards and applying the features to their writing. Some children have even hit their green standard. They used their chotting ideas from the experience day yesterday to really think about the lenses they were writing through and linked these to their gold standards.
Children have also enjoyed our expedition lesson where we thought more about human and physical features of Geography. Children grouped different pictures explaining their views as to why it was human or physical. From here children used maps and atlases to think more about the continent of South America.
Our HOWL scores have really improved too! Let’s keep this up Crew MI!
LKS2 Writing Experience Day (17.1.22)
In order to be able to write our own setting description about bear island, we need to read chapter 3. In the hall we got cosy and comfortable and read chapter 3 as a LKS2 under the northern lights.
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.
We are Geographers
Today, we kick started our geography case study… recapping how to read maps, globes and how to use compasses. 🗺🌏🔎
Experience Day! (7.12.21) 🚓
LKS2 played a game of Hide and Seek, in order to experience the dangers of being found in public, during Curfew time. The adults played the role of the Wujing, the secret police in the book we are reading – Running on the Roof of the World. The children experienced different feelings, including exciting and worried about being caught. Check out the images below:
Today, LKS2 took part in an experience day, which was based on our book Running of the Roof of the World. In the book, it discusses how Curfew’s are in place for local residents. We had to return to our chairs in time, as the Curfew took place. If we did not, we would be taken away by the Wujing (Secret Police). The children discussed how this was unfair and feel ready to complete the next Plot Point of their writing. We can’t wait to read them! 🚓
LKS2 produced some really beautiful work, as they created storyboards for their next piece of writing. It was great to see their imagination and what fantastic vocabulary they could use to help them with their future writing lessons.
We’d also like to say a massive well done and praise the pride the children have put into their work this week, especially in writing! 😃
Today in LKS2, we have been completing our Experience Day. Together, we worked in small groups to provide key information about the first three chapters of our new book ‘Running on the Roof of the World’. The children were read to and then shared summaries of their chapter, which will help us with our writing over the next few weeks! Check out the photos below!
