Today we made bananas for our experience lesson, when Handa started walking to her friend Akeyo she walked past a tall tree which had a cheeky monkey in it, who pinched Handa’s bananana!!
We tried really hard at balancing our banana on our head just like Handa does. Look at our balancing!
We had a great session today in Crew MI really focussing on vocabulary and inferences. We used APE today to explain how characters were feeling and used evidence from the text. We also challenged ourselves to think about what impression we have of characters and why.
Last week, in storytelling week, Crew MI wrote a story which, this morning, they shared with Crew Marsh. All the children really enjoyed it. Well done to children who had the courage to stand up and read- you read so fluently and with expression. Super proud of you all.
This afternoon we completed our last geography lesson for this case study. We were using our reading skills to skim and scan information about Svalbard to find some key information.
We continued our book talk this week by text marking our non fiction text. We have used this as an opportunity to start making connections with the things we’re reading.
Our entry tickets allowed us to make predictions on our new text. We used the pictures and title to help us with this. We made notices and wonders then made links to previous stories we had read. We then unpicked the title and again thought about what may happen. From here we explored our new vocabulary and tried to think of examples when we had used each word. From here we started to explore the text. We text marked our new vocabulary as we read. We were asked lots of questions about the text as we read, assessing our understanding. We then thought more about the setting and we drew our ideas! We really loved doing this. We used the text to support us and tried to label what we had drawn. We then shared this with a peer 🙂
To celebrate Storytelling Week 2024, Crew MW enjoyed many stories, discussions about stories and even a pyjama day! During crew, we discussed what our favourite stories were and then tried to guess the story based on a description from Miss McGlone. We were able to recognise all the stories apart from one – The Magic Porridge Pot, so we decided that at snack time we would listen to that story to familiarise ourselves with it! We noticed that porridge was a familiar theme as we have been looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears in expedition too! We’ve been working hard on the stories we hear in expedition by using props to act the story out, as well as being able to work on our retelling skills.
On pyjama day, Keenan brought in a copy of his favourite story – Finding Nemo, so we enjoyed listening to it whilst snuggled in our pyjamas. We really love stories and we listen to a different story every day, sometimes more than one!
Today we explored a given text then used our comprehension skills to answer a range of questions. We used APE well for one of our questions, using evidence from the text to back up our answer.
On Friday, we started a new text which was a non fiction. This will help us build background knowledge for our expedition.
We made some predictions about what the text would be about and had some discussion questions to get us thinking about what we’d be reading.
Once we had an understanding of the type of text we’d be reading, we did some guided text marking.
Crew Shields have continued to enjoy storytelling week by having biscuits while listening to an audio book. We also had a change of scenery for our class read and went to the library.
