Friday complete! We have had another day of working hard and we were surprised at how fast today went. We had a busy reading lesson and missed our break as we were that engaged with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. After break, we then moved onto some grammar to practice direct and indirect speech for our Gravity writing. Our HoWL Heroes for today are:

Work Hard: Sophia for thinking carefully about some interesting vocabulary to help with her writing! 😁

Get Smart: Sapphire for producing some fantastic contributions to help her peers! 😃

Be Kind: Ruby for putting a smile on everyone’s faces and cheering everyone up! 😄

Our costume winner for The Wizard of Oz dress up day was: Lucas! 👏

Our HoWL average was 3.0! I wonder if we can keep working as hard as we have been this week? We really are striving to make use of every minute.

Have a great weekend, Crew Gerrard and see you all on Monday! 😆

Star moment

Star moment today was the children feeling more confident with their fractions learning, today they have learnt to add two fractions together – this is something we have practiced since September so it was great to see it applied to reasoning and problem solving question.

Average is: 3.2!

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh’s target for next work again is to make sure that they are listening to every instruction and following it. We are really trying to make sure that everyone in Crew Marsh can follow an instruction to a T. This has got so much better as the week has gone on, next week we need to make sure this is perfect!

Howl Hero:

Our Work Hard Hero today is Preston!

Preston really impressed me with his attitude towards his math learning today, he came in from break and started his questions straight away, he made sure his work was neat and that he answered plenty of questions. Well done Preston! 😁😁

Thrilling Thursday! 😁

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our maths lesson this morning. I was blown away with how quickly the children grasped proper and improper fractions as well as counting fractions on a number line. Children were able to orally say the next fraction, calculate the missing fractions and convert improper fractions to proper fractions; all in one lesson! BIG WOW today for maths!

Todays HoWL average is: 3.0

Yay! We got 3.0! 😁 Well done Crew Elmer! 👏

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

All crew members need to continue to follow their HoWLs to ensure that we get another HoWL average of 3.0 tomorrow!

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Ray! Ray was praised by Lily-Beth and I for ‘getting smart’. Ray always ensures that he achieves the ‘expected standard’ if not more! During all lessons today, especially Maths and Art, Ray ensured that he was listening carefully and this enabled him to produce some beautiful pieces of work that he and his crew were very proud of! His art work particularly blew us all away! Well done Ray! 🙌🤩👏👍

Another busy couple of days. We have been reading, working on fractions and working on the Wizard of Oz writing.

Our HoWL score today was: 3.0

Our weekly HoWL target is : 3.0

We need 7 more ‘3’s’ to earn our Nelli day! 🐶🐶

Today KAYDEN was our HoWL hero. He really impressed Miss Holdsworth with his maturity in crew this afternoon. Well done!

Another lovely day! We’re definitely back in the swing of things now!

We have continued with our Wizard of Oz theme with our mark making! The children thought about what a Wizard looks like, we used shapes to help us with our drawing. They had some fantastic conversations, I was blown away with how much everyone remembered!

One of our favourite activities today was our whip around. Each crew member added their own action to a sequence until we had 20 actions! This really tested our motor skills, memory and concentration but most of all we grew as a crew and had lots of fun.

We also made puppets to help us retell our story. We used our cut and stick skills to make our puppets before taking them all over our environment to retell the story!

We also had a birthday in Crew today! We celebrated with cake and singing. We really liked seeing Hunter blow out his candles! 🎂

Today’s HOWL hero is Messiah! He has worked so hard today! He’s been telling stories using the Wizard of oz puppets, joining in with all the activities and encouraging his friends.

Highlight of the day:

In our Write Stuff lesson today we were word collectors, using our knowledge of the characters in the Wizard of Oz to find lots of adjectives to use in our writing next week. I was blown away with some of the words that were given by the crew and we all worked really hard to make sure we had plenty ideas to help us with our writing!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Jake, Daisy and Aleks for their brilliant contributions in Write Stuff – they all provided so many good describing words for each of the characters in the story, well done!

Get Smart: This goes to Luke and Perrie for their effort across all of our lessons today, they have both listened carefully and gone above and beyond in our tasks today, great work!

Be Kind: This goes to April for keeping her group on task in expedition and organising a cleaning squad to keep the classroom tidy, well done!

Howl Average: 3.4 – a slight dip from yesterday but targets have been decided for the crew to achieve those fab fours tomorrow!

Today has been another jam packed day and there was no tiredness from swimming yesterday! We started the morning thinking about what Crew means to Crew Gerrard and it was pleasing to see that we all feel like we belong. We powered on through our reading of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, through our spellings and into a creative writing session. Admittedly, we did find maths tricky, but we know that we will get there with it, if we persevere! Throughout the afternoon, we completed Plot Point 2 of our letter and I am impressed by how hard Crew Gerrard worked, which enabled them to get smart. Our HoWL Heroes are:

Work Hard: Zane for showing tremendous enthusiasm to his writing and thinking of what he wants to write about. He also was very careful with his handwriting! 😁

Get Smart: Tyler who has been thinking carefully about his letter. He came up with some fantastic sentences and was very persuasive! 😃

Be Kind: Crystal for being able to help her friends make the right choice (Mrs Gilliland) – well done, Crystal! 😄

Our HoWL average was 3.3 today, which was definitely earned. I wonder if we can make sure that we continue to show that positive, working hard attitude tomorrow to help with getting smart! 😆

Today, we have worked our socks off! I am so impressed with how well all Crew Fox reached reasoning level in maths to solve equivalent fractions and percentages. This usually takes a few lessons to grasp, but today we smashed it! Lots of hard work – resulting in getting smarter!

We were rushing at the end of the day today, but our HOWL score today was absolutely 3+!!