Today in writing, we have continued to build our knowledge about tectonic plates in preparation for when we write our next plot point. We watched some videos and chotted down loads of facts to support us in writing.
We then did a shared write which allowed Miss Shields to model how to put the facts into sentences.
Today the children in Crew Marsh took it in turns in their mini crews to present the weather to the rest of their crew. They made sure they each had a role to play and used their knowledge of the weather symbols to then present their predictions.
We are working hard on our information texts in Crew MT. We are really focusing on conjunctions and adverbials along with using our knowledge on volcanoes to compose our writing.
This afternoon we enjoyed making our very own flip octopus.
Checking that we know what order the days of the week go in .
Today we have been checking that we remember our 5 timetables so we did some practising on the board.
Crew Hamill have delved deeper into the mining industry and had a look at some of the main changes that have occurred since mining began. We worked in pairs to match the important events to a picture that illustrated them. Once we’d done this, we worked together to order them in chronological order. We discussed whether these changes were social, technological or political and discussed why these events were so important. For example, in the 1980s, lots of miners went on strike to fight for better pay.
As part of their expedition, Crew Hamill will be interviewing an ex miner in order to find out a little bit more about the experiences they had when working in the mines. In preparation for this, we worked in mini crews to chot some ideas for the questions we’d like to ask. We then worked as a crew to put our ideas together and generate a final list of questions which we will be asking on Friday.
