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Caring Crew – Teamwork
During Caring Crew, we have looked at what we mean by ‘Teamwork’ by working in small groups to build a tower. Each member of the team had a different role, and we had to showcase good teamwork and communication skills to build a tower that matched the example on the board.
When we debriefed, we showed integrity by discussing how not all of our team members completed their jobs which meant that our towers weren’t fully completed.
Harvest 🌾
This week, we have been learning about harvest and why we celebrate it. We activated our learning by looking at different pictures linked to harvest and discussed what we could see with our talk partners. After watching a short video clip about harvest, we created actions to help us remember that ‘harvest is a festival that celebrates crops’.
Body Percussion
The children really enjoyed doing a bit of body percussion. They learned lots of different moves to each piece of music and then keeping it to the rhythm.
Showing kindness to our peers 🫶🏻
We are always looking for ways to show kindness to our peers, and Thea and Bowiee were a perfect example of how it is ‘Cool to be Kind – ALWAYS!’. Bowiee needed a little bit of help zipping her coat up, and without even hesitating, Thea stepped in to help Bowiee, and Bowiee thanked Thea for her help. What a fantastic act of kindness, and such beautiful manners. Well done Thea and Bowiee!
Creating and continuing patterns
We have been working on AB patterns in maths, looking at how to create them, and how to continue them correctly and accurately. Some of us used our new mathematical knowledge to use the resources in the small world area to create our own AB patterns. We even challenged our friends to continue the pattern until there were no more wooden treasures left in the correct colours. If we made a mistake, we talked about how we could fix it so the pattern was correct. Thea even decided to make her own pattern using the coloured pencils in the creative area!
P.E (football) ⚽️
This half term, we have been working on our football skills. We have looked at dribbling the ball using our ‘penguin shuffle’ to help us keep control of the ball as we move around the space.
Leaf Man 🍂
We have really enjoyed our work on the book ‘Leaf Man’. We loved talking about the story, thinking of all the different creations that were made out of the leaves as they were blown about in the Autumn weather.
We followed the steps to draw our own Leaf Man, and we chose different Autumnal colours to add extra detail to our finished drawings. We then use a starting dot to trace the word ‘m-a-n’ underneath.
Balancing scales ⚖️
In maths, we have been looking at comparing mass using balancing scales. We enjoyed using the scales in provision to investigate which items around the classroom were heaviest and lightest. We used post it notes to label the heaviest and lightest side.
Provision round up
A round up of provision in Crew McGlone from the last couple of weeks!
