Our do now today allowed us to consolidate our learning when comparing numbers.
Maths consolidation
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Demo comprehension in MI
Our entry ticket allowed us to get into role as Lenny and write a short letter back home to either mum or dad. We wrote about all the things that had happened so far and this really allowed us to recap events from the story. We enjoyed reading our letters in mini crews and then to the whole crew. We even tried to read them in role. When reading the next part of the story, we used a chorus read, partner read and independent read. We discussed language as we read and thought about Lenny and Mick’s characters in more detail. We used the text during our demonstration comprehension, skimming and scanning for words to support our answers. We worked in mini crews to find evidence from the text, text marking then sharing with our partner. Our exit ticket allowed us to reflect on what we had read thinking about what Lenny and Mick may be saying to each other as they left the garden. We also thought about Lenny’s thoughts and how these had changed.
Developing our estimation and tallying skills, using beans and spaghetti!
We had a great breakfast this morning, beans or spaghetti on toast. The first job was to decide which we preferred which was a tricky job! But it wasn’t that simple, we had a challenge. Our first job was to estimate how many beans/spaghetti hoops we thought were in a tin, this ranged from 57 to 450. We then counted the beans and spaghetti hoops as we ate, completing a tally to ensure we kept track of the numbers. It was hard work but our resilience shone through and we discovered that a tin held approximately 431 beans!
We are designers
Yesterday in our expedition lessons we became design technologists. We started by looking at different buildings around the world and shared our notices, praises and wonders. We then learnt about the architect James of St George who designed lots of castles in Wales.
Today we had a go at being an architect and designing our own castle wall. We decided it must have battlements, arrow slits and a small door so enemies will find it difficult to attack.
Tomorrow we are going to build and test our designs
National Fitness Day
Today in Crew we celebrated National Fitness Day by completing a Joe Wicks Active 8 workout!
A surprise visitor in Crew McGlone!
Whilst we were having fun in the sunshine in our outdoor area, someone (or something) visited our classroom and left us a little gift! We noticed that there were footprints near our reading area, along with a mystery gift bag. We talked about what might have left the footprints and what might be in the bag.
Miss McGlone then told us that the mystery visitor had been caught on camera and showed us pictures of a bear stood in our classroom! We said that the bear looked cute and fluffy and that it must be a kind bear because it left us a present! We predicted what we thought might be in the bag before finding out it was a… book! A book called ‘The Everywhere Bear’. We used our noticing lens to talk about what we could see on the front cover and thought the story might be about children at school who find a bear. We cannot wait to read our new story and we feel very lucky that the bear decided to leave us such a lovely gift!
Can you drop an egg without breaking it?
This weeks challenge was to create a structure to keep an egg safe when it was dropped from a given height. We had to think carefully about the materials we choose to ensure our egg remained in one piece. There were some wonderful creations, children thought about several factors which would determine their success including how to slow down the speed of the fall, would the base provide enough padding and which materials would be suitable to ensure a safe fall. It was a great success and only one egg had a minor crack! We can’t wait to see what our next challenge has in store for us!
Caring crew in MI
Today we built on our discussion last week, talking about the members in our family and creating our own family tree. We talked about how our family members support us and how we support our family. We worked in mini crews to create a family alphabet, using each letter to describe how we help our families.
Instruction writing in MI
Our expeditionary learning continued this afternoon where we tasted the wartime food that we made yesterday! We then moved onto thinking about the features needed to write a set of instructions. Our do now allowed us to read our recipe from yesterday, we read out-loud with our partner practising our fluency and pace of reading. We then voiced the steps needed to make the cauliflower pie and ensured our steps were in chronological order. We then started to think about the method in more detail, creating anchor charts for time words, conjunctions and imperative verbs. We then took part in a shared write using the steps and putting them into sentences with the features we had just discussed. We have made a good start and will continue with our instructions tomorrow.
Collective and Partitive Nouns
Today, Crew Hamill took part in a range of activities in mini crews to consolidate our learning on collective nouns (that are used for a group) and partitive nouns (that are used to tell us how much of something we have). We began by playing one of our favourite games – corners – in which we went to a side of the room depending on whether the noun we were showed was collective or partitive. Following this, we worked in mini crews to organise a list of nouns into groups – one group of collective nouns and one group of partitive nouns. Our next activity was to match up the collective or partitive noun to the single noun it belonged to (e.g. flock of -> sheep). We then completed a kahoot! quiz which assessed our learning and completed an exit ticket to independently demonstrate what we had learned and could remember.
