We have been LOVING our times tables stick practice this term, learning different strategies for working out unknown times tables.

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We have been LOVING our times tables stick practice this term, learning different strategies for working out unknown times tables.

Crew Hamill have worked really hard this week on their comprehension skills. We have worked as a crew to remind ourselves the skills needed to solve vocabulary and fact and retrieval questions. Once we’d done this, we worked in pairs to solve some questions of our own.









Today in expedition we have discussed the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates. We used our reading skills to retrieve information, by playing fastest finger first and discussing our findings. Some of the facts really surprised us when reading. We then explored the types of skeletons linking these to vertebrates and invertebrates. We then tested our understanding so far with a quick quiz!
We then worked to sort animals into the two groupings based on what we had discovered – vertebrates and invertebrates. Moving onto the human skeleton, we explored how many bones an adult human skeleton has and looked at what a skeleton does. Did you know that an adult has 206 bones but as a baby, we have 300! We linked our skeleton to the digestive process, thinking about the organs that are protected by our bones. We assessed our understanding with a Kahoot quiz, it was very close with only a point between Mason and Declan!





Crew McGlone really enjoyed making paint heads using powder paint and a straw. What a great technique they had.






In reading yesterday, we started off by recapping our automaticity words. These are words we’ve been learning to read by sight. Children threw the ball to each other and had to read the word that was closet to their right thumb.



There was some great problem solving today where we found missing sides on a variety of rectilinear shapes then calculated the perimeter.




Today we used the text well to find answers in our reading lesson. We used our skimming and scanning skills along with APE to answer questions in our reasons to read. We worked well with our partner searching for clues and backing up our answers with evidence from the text. Our exit ticket allowed us to order events from the story.






We are working hard on our joins 🙂





In Crew Tymon we are learning about animals and we had a lovely surprise that came to visit us! We had lots of fun, we loved stroking them and learning more about them. The donkeys were super friendly and so soft. We didn’t want to leave.









