Rhythmic Musicians

28th March 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill became marvellous musicians this week! We recapped our musical vocabulary by completing a definition hunt around the classroom. Once we were sure we understood the terms such as beat, tempo and rhythm, we created our own rhythms using graphic notations. We used frog, tadpole, caterpillar and butterfly, clapping out the syllables to create a rhythm. We worked in mini crews to clap out a given rhythm and everyone had to guess what graphic notations we had been given. Following this, we matched the graphic notations to standard notation symbols. We found this a little tricky but we got there in the end!

Colourful Collage

27th March 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill continued their art slice by focusing on the skills needed to be able to complete their own collage. We focused on selecting different sections of colour within our magazines and then cut these coloured sections into small squares and rectangles. We then collaged these together and filled out squares. We cannot wait to use this technique on our final product!

Collage skills

27th March 2024Ruth Shields

Following on from learning about a new artist, we had an opportunity to practice some collaging using paper from old magazines. We discussed the important of cutting different shapes, overlapping and ensuring we filled in the blank spaces.

Making numbers to 10

26th March 2024A Welburn

This afternoon, we have looked at making numbers to 10. We started by selecting a number from the magic bag, and then choosing two representations from the pile of tens frames. We counted up all of the counters on the representations to see how many we had altogether and to see if we had made the magic number or not. After that, we made dominoes using our play dough and beads. We talked about how many were in each part and how many altogether.

Book talk continues in MI

26th March 2024Stacey McClare

Today we continued and finished our lesson from yesterday where we continued reading about famous inventors. We used a read around the robin today along with a chorus read. We then looked at our reasons to read.

Our entry ticket for todays lesson allowed us to work on our inference skills where we explored a picture. We thought about the girl in the picture and how she was feeling. We thought about who the characters were and what was happening in the picture. We explored the setting then thought about what the characters may be saying. There was lots of great discussion and thoughts expressed 🙂 From here we recapped the vocabulary we had explored yesterday with another entry ticket reminding ourselves of word meaning. We then moved onto looking at some written questions and worked independently to do this.