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In crew today we explored the importance of Road safety and how to keep safe whilst out and about. We looked at local hotspot areas for road traffic collisions and why these might have occurred. We watched a video and spotted the hidden dangers, like walking whilst looking on your phone and crossing the road in front in front of vehicles.
We are really enjoying our art case study where we are working hard on our perspective drawing. This is something we have found very challenging however we are all showing great resilience. We have practised some of the skills many times to ensure we get things just right on our final piece.
Today in history, we explored the life of Anne Frank, a significant individual in WW2. Without her diary so much information would not have been shared with a wider audience. We can’t wait to discover more information about her time during WW2. In todays lesson, we looked at key events in her life and ordered these. We couldn’t believe she was able to hide from the Gestapo for 25months!
A great start to our maths lesson today with our magic maths questions. We consolidated our knowledge when using symbols to show if numbers are bigger than, smaller than or equal to other numbers. We then moved onto our problem of the day, using the knowledge we gained last week when using money. We then consolidated our learning on pictograms. The main lesson was looking at multiplication word problems. We unpicked lots of questions together, working well in mini crews to discuss if the problem was multiplication and what we had to do to solve it. We are getting much more confident when identifying the operation needed. We look forward to continuing with this on Wednesday.
We’ve had lots of fun celebrating Children in Need 2024 in Crew McGlone.
Crew McGlone have spent time over the last week discussing why it is important for us to think about those people who helped and continue to help to keep our country safe, and thank them for everything they do. We created fork paintings of poppies that Miss McGlone put together into a wreath for our whole school Remembrance Day display.
We then also made our own poppies using apples and carrots to print with inside a laminating pouch. Once they were dry, they were put through the laminator and we have put them on our classroom windows.
Recently, we have been enjoying our computing lessons so much that the children are using AI(artificial intelligence) at home. It is so lovely to see this high level of engagement and even a couple of children have made story books (with the help of AI). It has now become a regular occurrence to read them as we walk down the corridor to break. With us hooked with AI, Miss thought it would be a good idea to incorporate this into our grammar application lesson. The children loved prompting AI to generate a short paragraph with no punctuation that they had to then identify the verb/verb phrase, subject, coordinating conjunction, leftovers and then punctuate to identify the main clauses. Obviously this was my favourite short paragraph!
We are still working hard demonstrating our knowledge of our fractions unit, with a particular focus on improving our reasoning and problem solving skills.
In Crew Mcloughlin, we have been exploring friction in order to help answer our guiding question. This lesson went with a splash as we experimented with water resistance! The children really did focus on ensuring a fair test and ensured we controlled our variables. We also learnt new words along the way such as hydrodynamic and buoyant.
