A new Solihull online parenting course : ‘Moving Up to Secondary School for Children with Additional Needs’ is now available to access for all parents/carers.
The course is free to any Doncaster parent or Carer using the code: STGEORGE https://solihullapproachparenting.com/online-courses-for-parents/
We are really loving reading in MI at the minute! Everyone is always so excited to find out what will happen next in the story. Our entry ticket looked at fact and opinion statements which is something we are trying hard to work on. We then played 4 corners where we looked at some of the vocabulary that would appear in the text as we read. We always love playing this! When reading today, we read with a partner and independently. Again we worked on the fluency of our reading. Our reasons to read allowed us to give some of our impressions on the different characters but we used the text to support our ideas. Our exit ticket allowed us to voice our most memorable moments in the story so far and this was a great discussion as a whole crew.
Today we started our crew session with the birthday line up challenge. We had to order ourselves in the correct order and to do this we had to communicate effectively. After the first challenge we thought about how the challenge had gone and thought about how we could work together a little better for the next challenge. We also ordered ourselves looking at our shoe size and our height! We really enjoyed our crew challenge this morning 🙂
Crew Robson showed great communication and team work to complete their crew challenge this morning. Well done everyone!
In our dance lesson today we created a crew safari dance, we looked out for the different animals that we might see when going on safari and how they might look and move. We are getting so good at counting to 8 in our head so we are all time!
Today we finished our book of “Our Tower” the children met a man in the tree who gifted them a stone with a hole in it, the stone gave them a different view of the world. Once leaving the magical inside of the tree the children decided to use this to view their city. This now looked completely different through their viewpoint – the once grey and dull city no longer looked dull and boring but now looked fun with people having picnics and playing, the sun was shining and everyone was having fun.
It left us thinking that if you change your view on something it might not be as bad as it seems.
Our entry ticket allowed us to think about the text we read on Friday with our partner. We shared what happened with the whole crew then based on our discussions ordered the events on our tables to recall these events. We then discussed the question, “Should Ali Baba have entered the cave?’ We explained our answers with our partner then the whole crew. There was some great discussion.
We then looked at the vocabulary that would appear in the text as we read, we made sure we were familiar with the language before we started to read. From here we started reading the next part of the text, we completed a chorus read, partner read and independent read. Mrs McClare really tried to model expression and fluency during the chorus read. Our reasons to read allowed us to demonstrate our understanding of the text and our exit allowed us to make predictions based on what the main character may do next! A great reading lesson MI.
Today we wrote the first chunk of our first plot point. We are creating our own narrative using a clip for our stimulus. Today we used our chotting from last week to help us to create a shared write on our character. We described Tadeo Jone’s appearance and personality whilst using expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and similes. We are excited to move onto the setting of our story 🙂 Some great work MI!
Today we described some of the risks of inactivity to ourselves and others. We looked at how much daily exercise different age groups should be getting over a day and over a week. This surprised some of us!We then explored some of the major risks for people that are inactive. We tried to think of different ways we could increase our activity levels during 4 different scenarios. We worked well in mini crews to build ideas before sharing back with the whole crew. Our debrief allowed us to set our own pledges to increase our levels of physical activity.
What an amazing maths lesson we had today! We explored a clock thinking about the minute and hour hands then looked at o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. We showed different times on our clocks and also had a try at writing the time. We will continue to work on our time knowledge tomorrow where we will explore other time intervals.
