Today in writing they copied the sentence making sure they used a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence followed by a full stop at the end of the sentence. We made sure that we had finger spaces in between our words. In activate (do now ) we checked that we knew what who?, doing? and where? .We made sure by completing a task first before our writing.
In writing today the children looked at what where is. Over the past 3 days the children have looked at who?, doing? and where?
In writing today they looked at the doing word . They found out that this is a action word .
In writing the children began to look at simple sentences. They looked at what who? was using our colourful semantics.
Over the past few days, the children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring maths through our outdoor provision. Using our “fast maths eyes,” we have been identifying and talking about shapes we can see in the environment, developing our early numberical skills and deepening our understanding of shape in meaningful, real-life contexts.
The children have also been busy creating simple two-part repeating patterns using natural resources such as sticks, leaves, twigs and stones. This hands-on exploration supports the Mathematics area of learning, particularly by recognizing, continuing, and creating patterns, while also encouraging problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration.
Crew Frost have also been given opportunities to write numbers using chalk and other outdoor materials which has strengthened fine motor control and pencil grip. As the children formed numbers, we used fun phrases such as “around the tree, around the tree, that’s the way we make a three” to reinforce correct formation in an engaging and memorable way.
These experiences offer rich, practical, and play-based opportunities for Crew Frost to build strong foundations in number, shape, and pattern through active exploration.
Well done, Crew Frost — amazing mathematical thinking.
Recently, during Academic Crew in Year 6 we have been showing independence, collaboration and hard thinking to help us get smart. During these sessions, we have our own learning target that we are focusing on. Some of us are improving our writing skills, some of us are becoming better readers and others are becoming better mathematicians. Last week, postcards were given to Rory, Tommy and Tiarna for their effort during this session. This week, postcards were given to Charlie, Ruby and Toby. Follow us to find out who will be next!
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! 🌟
