Crew MI have been working really hard this week consolidating their knowledge on place value, arithmetic and shape. Drip feeding this every day is really helping us to remember.
The Magic of Magic Maths 🧮
Story telling in Crew MI 📖
Over the last two days, we have watched a clip about a man who loves beans. In fact, he loves them so much he got a job at the beans factory. The clip showed his journey through life: getting, married, having twins and inventing new cans for different occasions (beans for one, beans for two, snack). We then developed our inference skills and acted out the scenes from the clip- sharing our ideas and what we thought the characters were thinking and feeling.
Storybook Week📚
To finish storybook week, Sharni-Mae read a story to Ates this afternoon. It was lovely to hear Sharni reading to Ates📚📖
Story Telling Week
We’ve had a lovely week exploring all of our favourite stories this week and challenging ourselves with riddles and story trivia. We really do know our stories well! I have been so proud of the children that have really tried hard to read at home each night too, Thomas has reached the top of our beanstalk so I wonder what little treat he will discover from our magic book box 📚
Computing 💻
This afternoon, we completed our computing lesson! The objective for our lesson was to recognise the parts of a computer. To be successful in this lesson we had to name the key parts of a computer, explain the purpose of different computer parts and explain that a keyboard contains lots of buttons. We then went onto Sketchpad and tried to create our own computer. We found some parts of this quite tricky such as drawing shapes and changing the colour but we were really resilient and showed high levels of determination to complete the task. We can’t wait to continue our learning in computing in the coming weeks.
Sharing our Stories: 02/02/2024
Beautiful Work This Week
XP Doncaster: XP Outdoors Reflections
At the end of last year, we asked students in C29 to reflect on the learning that took place outside the classroom and how this has helped them to build Crew.
Beautiful Curation: Carcroft School
Look at this collection of recent work which is now on display in the corridors of Carcroft School. Be sure to stop and admire students beautiful work from across phases and Expeditions!
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Beautiful Work from Harris @ XP Gateshead
Animal Habitat Research @ Norton Infants
Y6 Athletics Champs! @ Green Top
E28 Crew Ardern DofE Charity Work @ XP
Crew Malala Achievements @ XP East
Recycle Walk @ Carcroft School
Setting Description Artwork @ Norton Juniors
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Number Day 2024 in Crew MW! 🔢
This morning in crew we went on a number hunt around school to find the digits 1 to 10. We worked hard to use our magnet eyes to make sure we found all the digits. Once we had collected them all, we took them back to the classroom and worked as a crew to put them in the correct order. We did a fantastic job and managed to successfully order the numbers!
Steven Brown practise
We have been practising the colourful technique of Steven Brown so we can apply it to our final piece of a hedgehog.
I have been really impressed with how artistic Crew Marsh is.🖌️
Subordinate Clauses/conjunctions
This afternoon, we completed our grammar lesson about subordinate Clauses. We tried to sing along with the song to help us remember them before completing our tasks. We’ve been ensuring we are secure with our conjunctions before moving on to sentence types.
Yr 4 – Editing/redraft
Today, we started to edit and redraft our recount from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. This has been a skill we’ve been working on since September and we’re continuing to develop.
We looked at an example of someone’s work and went through the process of taking one sentence at a time so we’re editing/redrafting small chunks. This ensures that we are working with manageable chunks. After modelling, children had the opportunity to start editing/redrafting their own work. They worked on whiteboards so they could edit and rework their sentence before writing into their books. We will continue to work on this during the next couple of lessons.
