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We kicked off hook week by learning what is was to be a historian and the skills people need to research things from the past. We then began learning some information about Maya.
As part of this learning, we worked in mini crews to order key events into a timeline, with a reminder of BC and AD to ensure we ordered them correctly.
Did you know that when you order BC numbers go in descending order but when you order AD numbers they go in ascending order?
Today we started our new book in writing called “Our Tower”, the book started with a girl who was walking through a tall, grey and dingy city. She did not feel very happy and it was raining so she was soaked!
We experienced the miserable weather and built our own skyscrapers for our own city. We especially worked on our adjectives in todays lesson to help us to describe what we could see.
Our hook week started with us learning about the skills needed to be a historian and starting to learn some information about the Maya.
As part of this, we looked at the timeline and ordering key events. We had a reminder about the correct way to order based on BC and AD.
For BC, we order in descending order whereas for AD, we order in ascending order.
Today, we started our grammar sessions before we start our next piece of writing. One of our activities was to note down things we could notice in a passage of writing. It was great to see that we could identify lots of different features.
Today, we had a very exciting start to the term with a first aid course. We learnt about how to give CPR, check for dangers, call the emergency services, how to use a defibrillator and an epi-pen. We then discussed in detail about what we had learnt. Here are some pictures of us in action.
This afternoon, parents came in to support the children in building their background knowledge on the Egyptians. We explored the Ancient Egyptian civilisation through the Children’s University of Manchester’s resources.
Today in hook week we have been looking at the history of Maya
Today, we had a very exciting start to the term and kicked off hook week with a first aid course. We learnt about how to give CPR, check for dangers, call the emergency services, how to use a defibrillator and an epi-pen. We then talked in detail about what we had learnt and made suggestions for what we thought our guiding question for this next expedition would be.
To explore length, we used different sizes of ribbon to talk about which we thought was the shortest, and which was the longest and why. We worked as a group to talk about the longest and the shortest and then looked at where the remaining ribbons would go based on how long they were.
We then used the small world blocks to create our own village. We then had to use multi-link cubes to work out who had the longest and shortest journey to ‘school’.
