Celebrating libraries week in MI

9th October 2023Stacey McClare

Today MI discussed the importance of our school library. We thought about what our library has to offer. We had a game of library detectives where children found a variety of books… a book that makes them smile, a non fiction book, a history book and a book that interests them. Crew MI shared their choices with other members of the crew, explaining their reasons for their selections. They then selected a book they wanted to read or browse. They spent some quiet time just enjoying their book whilst Mrs McClare enjoyed time listening to every child read out loud. What a lovely end to our Monday afternoon.

Experience day in MI

9th October 2023Stacey McClare

Today MI started their next writing unit, setting and character descriptions around The Lorax. First we started watching the film and thought about how it links to our guiding question. We voiced our opinions on what we had seen and how it made us feel. We then re watched the song at the beginning of the film and thought about the lyrics. We looked closer at the pictures within the clip and used these to think about whether Thneedville is a good place to live. We then moved onto looking at what similes are, using examples to make similes accurate. From here we used different pictures of Thneedville to chot descriptive language and similes. We used the notice lense to support us. We then unpicked different setting descriptions thinking about the features used.

Roman Writers

9th October 2023Laura Hamill

We have worked extremely hard to complete our first piece of independent writing about the Romans. We have learned all about how to be a Roman soldier and chunked our writing so that we could explain this in a non-chronological report. We worked hard to edit and improve our work, focusing on ensuring our capital letters and full stops were in the right places, as well as fixing our spellings. Some of us even used conjunctions and extended our sentences. Once we were fully happy, we completed a redraft for our plot points and wrote them out into an entire paragraph.

Writing Experience

9th October 2023Ruth Shields

Today, we have started to look at our new unit of writing which will be a diary of a Roman soldier. We will have precious learning to pull from as well as a video stimulus.

We watched the video and discussed the daily routine of a soldier. Children were then asked to plan a light meal for the camp if they were on duty that morning. We had suggestions such as cornflakes, porridge, fry up and pancakes. We discussed the likelihood of these and decided it would have most likely been meat, bread and cheese.

Then we took part in early morning march so we could hear announcements and be issued their job role for the day. We’ll need a bit of work on being able to march in unison. 😂

Finally, they were issued with jobs and then discussed what this job would entail and whether they’d be happy to do it. No surprise the children who would have been cleaning the latrines said they wouldn’t want that job.

Next lesson, we’ll use the feelings, checking, action and imaging lenses to chot some ideas which will support our writing.

Mathmagians!

9th October 2023Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill have worked their magic with their maths over the last few lessons. We began by adding two two-digit numbers and moved on to adding two three-digit numbers, some of which involved exchanging into the 10s and 100s columns!