Today the children in Crew Robson and Crew Godley had the pleasure of meeting their amazing Chapter One reading volunteers and finally put a face to the voice. The children read to their volunteer once a week via audio call and it is having a great impact on their reading progress. It was lovely to be able to say thank you to these wonderful people who make time in their busy jobs to read with our children.
Today we started reading Percy the Parker keeper has a flying visit. We loved reading the first part of the book and experience what it must have felt like when the hedgehog was chilling under the tree in the park until bonkers fell down and bashed his head.
We looked up at the sky and shared what we could see, we then acted out what the hedgehog might have done when the conkers fell.
We are all super proud of our sculptures and are looking forward to displaying them for everyone to see 🙂
Today we watched and unpicked a section of the Jungle Book film, thinking about how Mowgli feels in certain situations. We got into role, becoming Mowgli, making his feelings come to life. We were then introduced to our new writing genre, a diary entry. We started to think about what a diary is and the features needed. We explored a model text and then unpicked the different features. We talked about how a diary is different to our previous genres. We talked about our own experiences of diaries and if we write them at home. We then looked at Mrs McClare’s example of Mowgli’s diary and what was included. This afternoon we have moved onto some grammar learning- using time adverbials. We tried to build sentences together and with our partners. We will be applying everything we have learnt in our grammar lesson tomorrow.
Today we recapped our previous vocabulary in reading by playing 4 corners! We loved playing this game! We thought about which word class the words belonged to and why. We read the words in context too to help us. We then read some of our text using a variety of reading strategies, we tried to do some text marking as we read. From here we tried to independently answer a range of fact and retrieval questions and also challenged ourselves with a green standard question. We used the knowledge we had gained in our previous demonstration comprehension lesson to help us to answer our questions.
In Crew Haddock this morning we did blind drawing where one person describes a picture and the other one had to draw it.
Today we looked at tenths in our maths lesson. We had such a positive attitude throughout the entire lesson which allowed us to move onto some problem solving questions at the end of the lesson. Keep this up MI 🙂
Reflecting on our last expedition whilst we prepare for our SLC’s next week 🙂
On Friday, we completed our compass lesson to try to find the clues to work out our guiding question. Children had a map of the school grounds and clues to follow for example, 23 steps North. Children worked really well as crew to find all the clues. We then went back inside and figured out the guiding question. We were so excited to find out our guiding question for this expedition is “How can we protect our Wonderful World?”
On Friday, we discussed as a crew what the guiding question could be for our Spring expedition based on the things we’d talked about and the activities.
We had some really good suggestions such as:
How can we save the world?
How can we save our planet?
How does climate change effect the planet?
How can we take care of our planet?
How does global warming effect animals?
Really impressed that children were able to suggest guiding questions similar to the one we’ll have.
Our guiding questions for spring will be:
