Another good day for us today has made this the best start to the week that we’ve had since we started in September.  Can we push on to make it the best week?  We’re continuing to develop our resilience and maths today was a test of that.  Things won’t always be easy and we’re learning that the challenges we face in our learning are what help us to progress and develop; they’re what we need to relish!

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.3

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

I wonder if…

Now that we are becoming more familiar with the writing rainbow, I wonder if we can start to push ourselves to use it more independently to write more in our morning session.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our HoWL hero today is Max!

It’s been a great day for Max today who has pushed himself to green standard in his writing and has definitely shown us all how to get smart!  If this wasn’t enough, his kindness has shone through with helping others in the crew when they’ve needed it and has even spoken out to support those with less confidence.

Well, it’s safe to say today has been a busy day 😴 This week is World Nursery Rhyme Week and today we celebrated this focusing on one of our favourites ‘5 Little Speckled Frogs’. The children independently accessed the resources set up to sing the song, practising their counting and I also noticed some excellent group work as they took it in turns with the frogs 🐸 I wonder what rhyme we will be focusing on tomorrow 🤔…

We continued reading our class text ‘The Gruffalo’ and we then practised our mark making skills drawing the Gruffalo. The children did fantastic drawing using shapes and even drawing the purple prickles on his back! Amazing work 🌟

This week our colour of the week is Red and we have made collages using red materials. Well done to those children who have demonstrated their understanding of learning the colour by bringing in something red from home. We are also progressing in our creative skills by being able to glue and stick independently now 🙌🏼

HOWL Hero

Working Hard – Porsha

I observed Porsha playing in the speckled frogs tray today, doing some lovely singing and counting. Porsha can sometimes be shy, it was lovely to see that although she can be quiet in large group work, she is still learning and this shone through today. Well done Porsha 🤩🌟

I would just like to thank adults for supporting your child with their homework. I understand there are mixed opinions about homework, however the tasks set are really simple and to support the child in their development. It is great to see the children so proud of their work too ❤️

Terrific Tuesday! 😁✔

My star moment today was watching the children be creative in PE lessons and creating their own dance routine. It was great to see how much the crew was into it and all of the fab ideas they had.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.1 😊

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.7!

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Tomorrow, again Crew Marsh need to make sure they are listening straight away.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Be Smart hero today is Max!

Max has had a really good today, he worked extra hard in our writing lesson today and got smarter quicker. Well done Max, Crew Marsh and I have noticed how hard you worked today. 👏😁

Good afternoon everyone,

The children in Crew today were introduced to the class Egg.🥚 We discussed where it had come from and what made our Egg different to any other eggs we might find in the supermarket. Our Egg is “magical”. 🧚‍♀️🧙‍♂️

With its lovely golden colour and glitter nest, the children are very intrigued to see what will hatch 🤔🤷‍♀️ We had some very interesting ideas. Some children thought we might get a chicken while others thought it might even be a baby dinosaur. 🦖 We will have to wait and see.

They discussed how we could care for the egg as a crew and how we could make it comfortable enough to hatch. We were all really kind and throughout the day the children kept an eye on the Egg to ensure it was warm enough and keeping safe. 🥰

The children then used their phonic knowledge to draw pictures and write labels to say what they thought were inside. Brilliant fred talk everyone! 🐸

 

Our HOWL heroes today were:

George for getting smart and using his amazing fred talk to write all about the chicken what he thinks will hatch from inside the golden egg.

Kyla for being kind and showing care and concern for younger children in the classroom. You are a great role model Kyla, keep up the lovely work.

 

Today in Crew Shields, we have enjoyed creating a poster that represents the services of the Salvation Army. We have learned that they work all over the world, support the elderly, they provide food and beds for the homeless, they upskill people so they can get jobs and ensure people have a better future. William Booth was the founder because he wanted to show God’s love by helping others.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.3

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

To improve further, Crew Shields need to remember to put up their hands when they have something to share.

Our Work Hard hero today is Kaylum!

Kaylum has had a really positive attitude to his learning today. This has really shown in his writing and when we were creating our poster. Well done.

Hi everyone,

Today was a mixed day at times, however I know that we will improve more tomorrow. We need to make sure that we do this consistently. It was difficult to choose the HoWL heroes for today and they are:

Working hard: Tyler 🦸‍♂️

Get smart: Sapphire 🦸‍♂️

Being kind: Emily 🦸‍♂️

Our HoWL average was 2.9!

I need to see improvements tomorrow, which I know will happen! 😆

Today, we could’ve given anyone HOWL hero… but the lucky 3 were:

Work hard: Sophia 👩

Get smart: Grace 👩

Be kind: Kelby 👩

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 2.8! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means.

Well done Crew Kent 👍

Tuesday ✔

Highlight of the day: 

What super stars we have had in phonics today. Every child in Crew Welburn has been trying hard with their Fred talk and blending. Well done everyone!

Our HOWL heroes are…

Work hard: Harrylee 👏

Get smart: Charlie 👏

Be kind: Lylah 👏

Our HOWL average was 3.5 today. Well done Crew Welburn!

Well what a different Monday today has been! I should of known last week that things were too good to be true! 🙄 So here we are again Mrs Elmer teaching from home! 😬

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Despite being at home 🏡 I absolutely loved 💕 teaching the children about William Booth and The Salvation Army this afternoon. I was so impressed with how well the children listened and took in the information that I shared with them. The children were then able to use this knowledge to ask and answer questions. I wonder who’s work will end up on our Expedition Working Wall? I wonder if Esme found out who the nurses were who volunteered? I wonder if anyone worked out how many years the Salvation Army has been functioning for?

To fond out more about The Salvation Army then click this link: https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todays HoWL average is: 3.4

Well done Crew Elmer! To say that I haven’t been physically in the classroom, I am still really happy with how well you have just got on! 👍

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.4

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Please please please be kind to each other and Miss Clarke. You are all doing a fab job without me being there so please keep this up! #weareinthistogether #crew

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Despite being at home 🏡 I got to listen in on all of the praises today which was lovely 💕 Rhyleigh yours was especially sweet and I liked how it was a more in class praise rather than always being about crew playtimes. As a crew Harry was chosen for working so hard today! I had to echo that as during Hooked On Books he listened well, was one of the first to finish, participated well and wrote some great answers. This afternoon during Expedition, Fix it and Crew he was on task, again listening attentively and demonstrated a keen positive attitude. Well done Harry! You truly deserve to be today’s HoWL Hero! 👍👏🙌🤩