We are striving to get better in our times tables, we are showing that a little bit of practice each day we are able to increase our speed and accuracy.
TTRS in Crew Godley
Showing resilience in PE
Today in PE, we had some really tough team challenges to complete. Our first challenge was to order ourselves in various positions on including our birthdays, height and shoe size, without leaving the bench! Only one person was allowed to communicate which is always a tricky challenge in our crew!
We then moved onto ‘cross the river’ with the same rules applying. I was so impressed with how the children worked together, communicating silently to ensure they achieved their goal.
The Blitz continues in MI
Today we continued to explore a range of pictures focusing on The Blitz. Todays activity built on our learning yesterday but allowed us to record some of our own thoughts and ideas. We explored a picture then recorded the things we could see. We used the sentence stem I think… to generate our own ideas then wrote down some of our wonders. We then looked closely at 2 pictures where we summarised what we could see, what we thought was happening and what they made us wonder. From here we compared each picture thinking about similarities and differences.
Rounding in MI
We continue to consolidate our place value knowledge during our do now activities. Today we ordered numbers in ascending and descending order. We then looked at a reasoning problem that we unpicked together.
The main part of our lesson looked at rounding to the nearest hundred which we did really well with. Tomorrow, Mrs Ibbotson will consolidate our learning on this before using the lesson to model some reasoning and problem solving questions. We are looking forward to working in mini crews to discuss and solve these problems.
Challenge Crew
This week in crew we’ve had to work together to create a marble run, this was rather tricky and we had to show a great deal of resilience and determination to achieve our end goal. Leon was so proud his marble flew down his run!
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XP Outdoors
Today in forest school the children made their own cardboard flower pots. We used our fine motor skills.
Pyjama and Teddy Day in Crew McGlone!
We started our week by having a pyjama day! We also brought our favourite teddies into school with us and they spent the day finding out about what we get up to at school. We did a bear themed movement break and we really enjoyed lying down and snuggling our teddies whilst listening to ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We sat with our teddies at snack time and got a lovely surprise when we realised it wasn’t a fruit snack… it was a special chocolate biscuit! We had a lovely day!
Building Background Knowledge – Movement of the Planets
Today, we began building our background knowledge on our solar system and how the planet within it orbit (move around) the Sun. We worked in mini crews to make notes as we watched videos that detailed each of the 8 planets and how they each orbit the Sun. Every time we watched something new, we changed the colour of our pen to build upon the knowledge we had already gained from the previous video. We are going to use this knowledge to write a paragraph of what we now know about how the planets move in our next expedition lesson.
Ordering 4 digit numbers
Today, Crew Hamill used their place value knowledge to begin ordering 4 digit numbers to 10,000. We used our place value arrow cards to build our numbers so that we could visually see the numbers we were working with. We then began following the steps needed to decide which order they should go in, whether they be in ascending order (smallest to biggest) or descending order (biggest to smallest). We started by looking at the column with the highest value (our thousands) and then working down the columns until we found the digit that would help us decide whether the numbers were bigger or smaller. We were then able to apply this knowledge to some fluency questions in our books.
