We have enjoyed writing a recount linking to our field work last week to Magna! Some great work MT 🙂
Recounts in MT
Arithmetic in MT
Lots of hard work and resilience this afternoon in our arithmetic session 🙂
The King’s Crown
Today in our writing lesson we listened to the story ‘The Queen’s Hat’ by Steve Arnold.
We enjoyed the story and then talked about how Queen Elizabeth sadly passed away and now we have a King. We then became illustrators to design a front cover for our new story that we will write over the next three weeks. Everyone worked hard and showed resilience, even when faced with challenges.
Crew Robson presents – The King’s Crown!
Egg-cellent Easter!
Crew Godley have been busy creating some masterpieces for our Easter Egg Competition!
Sharni-Mae, Declan and Leon brought their own unique ideas to life with bright colours, imaginative designs, and lots of enthusiasm! We are so proud of the effort and artistry shown by everyone. Well done, Crew Godley, your Easter eggs look egg-cellent! Take a look at their amazing entries below!
What is the crust made of?
In our second Hook week lesson, we explored what the crust of the earth is made up of. We learned that the crust is made of 5 different layers which are called the organic material, topsoil, subsoil, parent material and bedrock. Children matched each layer to their description after we’d watched some videos to help us understand about what each of the layers were made of.
Easter Egg Competition
Crew Hamill’s amazing easter egg displays for the easter egg competition!!
Experience day
In writing, it was a perfect opportunity to complete a recount after our visit to Magna. To help us prepare for the writing day, we spent some time ordering the events in chronological order. While the children completed the activity, I could hear the children starting to use time adverbials as they ordering them which will be one of our focus areas for writing.
Once we were happy the events were in order, we used our fronted adverbials word mats to start thinking about the ones that would be most appropriate for our writing. We then shared these back and created a bank of fronted adverbials that could be used when we write our recount.
Strike, strike, strike!!
Crew Hamill and Crew Wilkinson had so much fun causing a little mischief on the streets of Carcroft whilst taking part in our very own strike. We showed a united front whilst fighting for what we believe in – a school with no uniform and a 4 day school week (no Fridays!!).
Thank you to everyone who cheered us on when they saw us and to those who gave us a beep of their horn!
Magnificent Magna
On Tuesday, we were able to explore science at Magna. This was extremely interactive and allowed children to experience lots of new things. We completed a workshop where we could investigate different types of rocks before creating a volcanic eruption. Then we built up the volcano using play dough which helped us understand the different layers. When we had finished, we took a sample just like a scientist so we could see how scientists study volcanoes and how they know how many times they’ve erupted. There was lots of walking so lots of tired legs when we returned to the coach. A great trip out to help us learn.
Composition of the Earth
To kick start Hook week, we started learning about the composition of the Earth. We learned that Earth is made of layers called the crust, the mantle and the core. We then learned about what each layer is like before completing our own learning to demonstrate what we had learned.
