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Miss Trunchbull! Our Year 4 pupils have been putting their creative skills to the test! We have created ‘Wanted Posters’ for the infamous Miss Trunchbull! With their vivid imaginations and artistic flair, they captured her larger-than-life personality (and not in a good way!).
After a quick recap of last weeks lesson, Crew Ramsay have been designing their own inventions. Miss Shields modelled her own invention before children were able to work independently on their own. We had cupcake machines, a machine that built castles, a machine that dropped balloons from the ceiling or made birthday cakes on demand.
Year 6, started the lesson with a game of bingo to help us recap key vocabulary that had been covered in previous lessons. Children then had an opportunity to play a computer game that would have been found in arcades in 1981. As you can imagine, they didn’t give it raving reviews considering it was considerably slower than the games they play. The graphics were quite simple and the music was very basic. This allowed us to start thinking about computers from the past and how they’ve evolved. We briefly discussed some of the first computers and historical figures from the computer world before they started to set up their slides in preparation for creating a presentation of their chosen area. This will continue into next week and then children will present their research to the rest of the crew.
This week in Crew Rankin, we kicked off our new writing unit all about The Lorax!
We started with an exciting experience day lesson where we watched the beginning of the film and then worked in groups to re-enact different scenes. It was so much fun bringing the story to life – we had to use lots of teamwork, expression, and creativity to perform our scenes. Everyone got involved and we really enjoyed stepping into the characters’ shoes. We can’t wait to explore the story further in our writing!
Crew Rankin were great scientists today! They began by exploring some real life plants, having a look at each of them in turn and identifying notices about them. We then came together as a crew and shared what we noticed – different shaped leaves, different colours, the different way they grow etc. We then looked at classification keys and how we can use these to identify types of plants. As a crew, we worked on organising the plants we had just looked at with a classification key. Finally, we used what we had learned about the plants characteristics to create a crew classification chart.
Year 4 has continued their knowledge of variables today by starting to make a timetables quiz. Our session today was a guided session as it required lots of thinking power. We worked side by side to build the code, however, next week children will get an opportunity to work independently on building the code.
In nursery we have been learning how to use musical tracing maps to warm up our fingers for our fine motor learning. These are also a great tool for building, language, physical, attention, listening, shape and pattern development. You can also do these at home by the use of YouTube 🙂
This week the children have been introduced to Fred Bingo! Each child is given a sheet of six CVC words, the adult Freds the words and the children mark off the correct image, the first one to finish wins! This has been so much fun, building on our pictorial skills and our oral blending. They cannot wait for new images next week!
This week the nursery children went on an environmental walk to see what they could hear. We heard a bus, ambulance, birds, and much more! The children gave meanings to the marks they made on their clip board to help them remember the sounds. This was also a great opportunity to practice our lines and circles. Then the children came back to the classroom and tried to think of the sounds we were Fredding. They were amazing at orally blending the sounds! We can’t wait to go on another walk soon.
KS1 loved having the firefighters in yesterday, we learnt all about their truck and the jobs they do to keep us safe.
