Shelter Building at Scottties
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Do you want to make a pizza?
We loved making our own pitta pizza today in our expedition lesson. We followed a recipe created by KS1 children at Carcroft in 2023. They were delicious!
Look what we did!✂️✍️
This week, we had so much fun practicing our fine motor skills, letter writing, and cutting! We even used spaghetti to help make our hands stronger, it was so wobbly and fun to hold! We practiced our letters, used scissors carefully, and worked hard to get better at writing.
We are so proud of our work! ⭐
Expedition: MLK Speech and research
Today, we worked with our shoulder partners to skim and scan for information (as well as retrieving knowledge we already knew) about Martin Luther King Junior, why he was important and what change he instigated. We discussed and witnessed how captivating he was as a spokesman for equal rights. His language is full of metaphors which we broke down and put them into our own words.
Showing Resilience in Handwriting
Crew Godley have been determined to get their letter formation right! We have been practising so hard to form our letters correctly – we have so much remember! Our pencil grip, starting at the correct points and forming our letters within the correct lines. Our dough disco always helps warm up our fingers and today we can see a big improvement when forming our letters in a word rather than solitary.
We then played a game where we had to listen to our crew mates describing a letter by its formation, a letter ‘Guess Who’, we had to show we’d listened and formed the letter correctly to get a point. It was very tricky at times! Sharni-Mae loved tricking her crew mates!
Positive Vibes on a Friday in Crew MI
Today we talked about how a positive attitude is good for our mental health. We talked about what is a happy mind and what a different that can make to our lives. We spoke about what made us happy. We all agreed that when someone else says something positive that then makes the rest of us happy. We worked together to compose a positive statement to share with the crew. We read some some inspirational quotes and decided which one we liked the best- these helped us with our own. We spoke about how some people can struggle with their mental health and how this then can be difficult to feel happy. To help this, we spoke together about what those people could do like talk to a trusted adult.
Bonfire week in Crew Tymon.
This week in Crew Tymon we celebrated bonfire night. We explored mixing paints together with our hands to make fire paintings. We also put the fire out in phonics using spray bottles. Using our hand eye coordination to roll a ball to make a beautiful firework picture, we also practiced our cutting and fine motor skills. To end the week we had a sparkle and shine disco, and we showed everyone our best dance moves.
Anne Frank in MI
We have really enjoyed learning about Anne Frank in our expeditionary learning this week. We learnt about Nazi persecution on Jewish people and all about the Holocaust. We have all been so engaged in this subject area this week with so many questions raised. We were all very mature in our approach to this subject and really showcased our best selves.
Candlemakers
We have experienced our second castle job today, luckily it was better than being a servant. We were candle makers and we each made our own candle.
Identifying subjects in a sentence
Today we explored ‘subjects’ in a sentence, we discovered that sometimes a subject may be made up of one word, sometimes, its many words. For example, we found that ‘ran’ is an example of a verb, or action, it cannot be the subject of a sentence because it is not a noun (person, place or thing). We then created our own sentences for our crew to order and identify the subject. It was great fun!
