Book Talk – ABC

7th June 2024Ruth Shields

In book talk this week, we have honed back in on our inference skills and how to ensure we are answering the questions with enough detail. We have focused on ensuring that we are reading around the text but also checking back to the question so we can ensure we are selecting the right information. In addition, we’ve also had a focus on vocabulary and how we need to understand the words we’re reading as this will help our comprehension of the text.

Our do now activities, have given us the opportunities to use our inference skills on not only images but also text which is the one we find a little tricky. We were able to give some good reasoning for our inference. We started using a new strategy where we either agree, build on or challenge (ABC) someone’s answer but ensuring we are doing this in a respectful manner.

Grammar in MI

5th June 2024Stacey McClare

Today we explored emotive language and rhetorical questions, two key features we need to use when writing our persuasive letters. First we watched a clip exploring emotive language. We were given a range of pictures where we showed the emotion we felt. There was many laughs and giggles for some of these! We then discussed why writers use emotive language and the impact on the reader. Next we were given a range of language, we had to group the words under 4 headings- happy, excited, sad and angry. We worked in mini crews to discuss each word finding the synonyms. We then shared these back with the whole crew. Next we explored different scenarios where we discussed how the scenarios made us feel and which words were emotive.

We then moved onto rhetorical questions where we thought about the sections of our letter and where rhetorical questions could go. We used a range of sentence starters to help us build our own rhetorical questions in mini crews then shared these back with the whole crew. Our debrief allowed us to discuss how the rhetorical questions make us feel and the impact they will have on Mrs Atherton when she reads our persuasive letters!

Kitchen tour in MI

5th June 2024Stacey McClare

Today we joined Amy in the kitchen where she discussed food hygiene and safety with us. She gave us a tour of the kitchen and showed us what happens on a daily basis when preparing our school dinners. She discussed the equipment she uses and why certain chopping boards are certain colours. She talked about cross contamination and why basic food hygiene is so important. She then showed us the school fridge and discussed where foods need to go. She linked this back to cross contamination. This was such a great opportunity for us and will support us in our first design and technology lesson tomorrow 🙂

Crew MW – Final product artwork creation

4th June 2024Sarah Mcglone

In Crew MW, we have been creating our collages ready to be included in our final product. We started by practising our cutting skills before applying them to cut out an outline of a creature from under the sea. We cut along different types of lines and even challenged ourselves to cut around shapes!

After a discussion around collaging and the skills needed to do this, we then began to collage our creatures to create our first draft.

We then spent time doing a gallery walk to provide our peers with praises and wonders to form critique to make our sea creature collages even better. We talked about using different materials in different ways to create different textures, as well as making sure that most of the white areas were covered to make our collage look more effective. We then got to work acting upon these wonders, reflecting on making improvements to our existing work.