Similarities and differences 🌎

30th January 2024Kate Thompson

This afternoon in our expedition lesson, we researched Svalbard and the UK to find information such as population, weather/seasons, agriculture and education. We then sorted the pictures into our Venn diagram to show the similarities and difference of the human and physical features of the UK and Svalbard, Norway. We were then able to unpick why these similarities and differences might occur. We came up with some great reasons such as “the climate in Svalbard is colder because it is closer to the North Pole” and “there are physical features such as glaciers and icecaps which the UK doesn’t have”

Recycle, recycle, recycle ♻️

30th January 2024Kate Thompson

Today, we were super lucky to get the opportunity to explore the household waste centre in Carcroft. We were super eager to see if we could put everything we had learnt into practice and remember how we recycle different items. We found it super interesting and loved watching the JCB digger in action! Today was a fantastic experience and we are definitely recycling experts now!

How can we protect our wonderful world? 🌍

30th January 2024Laura Hamill

Today, Crew Hamill were extremely lucky to be given VIP access all areas to Carcroft Recycling Centre! ♻️We took a walk from school to our local recycling centre, collecting some rubbish along the way that we could recycle when we got there.

We got to see all of the different recycling bins that are available at the recycling centre and the lovely people from Doncaster Council told us all about the differences between them and how each different type of waste is safely recycled to help protect our wonderful world! 🌍

As if that wasn’t enough! We then got to see the JCB in action AND we got to sit in it ourselves! 🤩They showed us how they use this to flatten each of the bins so that more waste can be added. This means there will be less trips to landfill!

Book talk in MI

30th January 2024Stacey McClare

Today in reading we completed two entry tickets that allowed us to reflect on the previous stories we had read and then make predictions on the next story by using the title. We tried to make links to our current expedition and thought about what we already know about Africa. We then explored our new vocabulary, the language we would come across when reading our new story. We worked well in mini crews to do this. We then used a partner read and echo read when reading the text outloud. We text marked our new vocabulary as we read. We then moved onto some book talk questions where we use APE well to answer our impression question. We used evidence from the text to build our answer then made sure we linked our ideas back to the question. We are trying really hard in our reading sessions and our confidence is growing 🙂 Our exit ticket allowed us to think about what we thought is going to happen when the character is hunting. We even tried to explain our answers.

Writing in MI

30th January 2024Stacey McClare

Today we used our chotting from yesterday to complete a shared write and then we wrote the first chunk of PP2. We used some great similes to describe our feelings aswell as the thunder and lightning. A great writing lesson today in MI 🙂

Non-chronological Reports

30th January 2024Nicola Robson

Yesterday we began to explore non-fiction writing. We are going to create our own non-chronological report all about hedgehogs as we have been learning about them in our expedition lessons. We stared by exploring the features of a non-chronological report such as headings and subheadings. We then worked in pairs to find out some of our own hedgehog facts to use in our writing later in the week.

Storytelling week continues in MI…

30th January 2024Stacey McClare

Our crew check in this morning really got us thinking… Which of the characters would you like to be and why? Some very interesting discussions!! We have then been working on our own crew story for the year 1 children. We are creating a new story that we will share with Crew Marsh at the end of the week! We have tried to include some of the writing features we have been working on- descriptive language, conjunctions, adverbials and similes 🙂 Our imaginations run wild when we got creative! We have defiantly made a great start this morning and can’t wait to finish it in crew tomorrow.

Perimeter continues in MI

30th January 2024Stacey McClare

Today we continued to work on calculating the perimeter in our maths lesson 🙂 We even moved onto some reasoning and problem solving questions which was fantastic to see.

In magic maths we worked really hard chanting our times tables and then worked on rockstars to continue to work on the pace of our times tables. We also consolidated our learning from last week looking at ordering numbers from smallest to largest and from largest to smallest. A great start to the day in MI 🙂