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This week, we had a really good discussion about the importance of demonstration comprehension and deepened our understanding of why we have this lesson. By working with our teacher, we were able to identify the key steps needed in order to read, understand and answer comprehension questions. By doing this, and listening to Miss Hamill as she talked us through her thought process, we were able to work in mini crews to answer some demonstration comprehension questions of our own.
This week, we have sunk our teeth into a brand new book – Toad. At the start of the week, we made predictions about what we thought would happen in the story, using two pictures from the book to support our ideas. We noticed that there was a princess and a toad and have read similar stories so we assumed it would end up with a happy, romantic ending! We then found out a bit more by reading the book introduction and had a discussion with our partners. Using Fastest Finger we worked in pairs to identify the answer to some questions about the book and have become much more confident with our retrieval and inference skills.
Today, we recapped the vocabulary we have learnt this week by matching it to pictures. After that we read our text and discussed it together. We helped Mrs Ibbotson to answer questions and we really unpicked how to answer ‘what’, ‘why’, ‘who’ and ‘when’ questions. Finally, we challenged ourselves to answer another impressions question where we used APE to help us.
Yesterday afternoon, we recorded the results from our science experiment as a line graph. This allowed us to clearly see that the water on the radiator melted at a much quicker rate than the one on the table and one still in the freezer. We were able to make links with this to global warming and the fact the ice caps at melting at a faster rate due to the Earth warming up.
This morning in writing, we have been spending time editing our learning from yesterday. We needed some time to ensure our writing was punctuated correctly and that we had wrote in chunks of sense. Before starting to edit our writing, we spent some time reading each others work and supporting each other with where we needed to make some corrections.
Yesterday, we continued with our Ice Age narrative writing. We watched the video to remind ourselves what we’d be writing about before chotting down some ideas. After this, we completed a shared write together. Then it was time for children to write independently.
Today in Crew Haddock we worked together to do a pointillism of a whale and then we used our reading corner. Sharni-Mae really enjoyed reading the book Funny Bones.
So today in Crew Haddock we did an experiment on global warming. We had to predict what would happen then put our theory to the test using 2 thermometer , glass cup and plastic cup with the same amount of water in. Throughout the day we recored the temperature in each cup to see which would hold in the heat .
Crew Haddock would like to thank the kitchen staff and all the parents that came and supported us in today by buying buns to help raise funds for our school trip. We raised £92.68🧁
In reading today, we started by finding the definitions of words that was scattered around the room. We then read the text aloud using a mixture of strategies such as round robin and echo reading. We then looked at our reasons to read. We had lots of fantastic ideas and used the text to help us.
