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After building our houses yesterday, today we recreated the Great Fire of London. We all sat and watched how quickly the fire moved from one house to the next so quickly – it only took 30 minutes to burn down all of the buildings, like the 3 days it took for the Great Fire of London. We spoke about what language we could use in our writing such as fire, smoke, spreading, roaring, burning.
Today the children in KS2 AP loved making spiders in xp outdoors.
Following on with the Roman theme, the children were given time to create their own mosaic patterns. Some children went for repeating patterns and others tried to create pictures with the mosaic. We worked well and even enjoyed some Roman music in the background.
As it is hook week, it’s essential that children have an opportunity to engage in activities that help them immerse themselves in their new learning. Yesterday, the children worked in small groups to make knucklebones which was a game played by Roman children. Each person was asked to come up with their own rules so we are looking forward to playing them once they have dried.
During our experience lesson, we had the opportunity to experience some of the criteria that was required to be a Roman soldier.
We measured each other’s height, checked our eyesight and hearing and whether we could follow orders. We even discussed some recruitment questions that would test our loyalty to Rome.
Unfortunately, Crew Shields would be unable to join the Roman army because we didn’t meet the height requirement of 1.75m but even if we did, some didn’t show blind loyalty to Rome.
During our first English lesson, we discovered what it took to be a Roman Soldier. Using the criteria, we tested ourselves to see whether we had what it takes to be a Roman Soldier ourselves. Use our checklist to decide if YOU could be a Roman Soldier too:
As part of hook week, we learnt about a game that the Roman’s used to play called Knucklebones. We learnt all about the rules and then created our own rules for our own version of the game. Using clay, we carefully modelled our own knucklebone pieces. We are SO excited for them to dry so that we can give our game a go.
We started our Place Value unit with a practical lesson focusing on our numbers to 20. We used bead bars to represent our numbers, partitioned numbers into tens and ones and even had a go at independently writing our numbers in words.
Crew Hamill worked really hard to complete their art project last week. Over our first 3 days we carefully designed a print that was inspired by “What makes me, me.” We created a draft of our design which was something that represented us – our house, our pets, our hobbies. We then transferred our designs onto cardboard and carefully added string, meticulously following the lines we had drawn. Finally, we painted our string using two different colours and printed this onto card. We’re really proud of our results.
Last week, we had the best first as Crew Hamill. We worked towards answering our guided question: What does crew mean to me? We worked hard on developing our communication skills and our ability to work together as a team. We took part in lots of activities such as jigsaw puzzles, lego building and baking.
We got to explore our outdoor environment and discover the different leaves we have in our forest area. We used these to create some crew bunting using our fabulous wax creations! Who do you think won the competition to find the biggest leaf?!
