In Crew Haddock the children enjoyed making their roman road using different kinds of food and of course the best bit was eating it at the end 😁
Roman Road
Pizza shop time 🍕
Well Crew Haddock have loved playing in the new role play area
Music – Crew Mcloughlin 🎶
This week we have continued our exploration of ‘Hey, Mr Miller’. We started by completing a vocal warm up focusing on scales and arpeggios – this helped us to exercise, not only our vocal chords, but also our facial muscles and mouth.
We looked at the word rhythms of select lines from the song, and working in small groups, clapped out the rhythm being sure to think about any pauses, as well as working hard to ensure each member of the group was in time. Once we had practised in our groups, we layered each of the lines so that every group was performing at the same time. We then added in the element of untuned percussion instruments in place of clapping the rhythm to create an ostinato. We worked well in our groups to make sure that every member was in time – it was tricky but the more we practised, the better it sounded! It was really lovely to see some children naturally falling into the role of a conductor, ensuring everyone knew what they were doing and that everyone stayed in time. Special shout out to Lydia B who did a fantastic job of conducting her group, whilst also playing her instrument at the same time!
Identifying the animals in Percy’s park!
We have been looking at the story of Percy the Park Keeper – After the Storm with Miss Welburn as part of our expedition learning. This week we looked carefully at the image of the tree filled with various animals from the park and worked with our shoulder partners to identify what we could see and how many there were of each animal in the tree. We shared what we knew about each animal before thinking carefully about the type of habitat they might live in. We are really excited to continue our work around animals!
Team building in Scotties
This morning, Crew Thompson were very lucky to have Scotties Heroes. First, we played a blindfolded game of collect the cones. We worked in mini crews and had to make sure we gave clear instructions for our partner to follow. We had to make sure we were listening to the instructions carefully and used the directions given. Next, we went into the forest and tried to get through the string maze. It was really good fun and we can’t wait to try and do this blindfolded next time!
🎄oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree 🎄
Exciting times ahead in Crew Thompson! 🎄 We are introducing a new reading incentive. Each time you read at home you get to go up the Christmas tree. First one to the top of the Christmas tree will get a huge chocolate Santa! Everyone else that reaches the top will get a mini chocolate Santa! Let the reading commence! 📚🎄
Painting our diva lamps 🪔✨
Now that our diva lamps have fully dried, we have finally been able to paint and decorate them! They all look so beautiful! ✨
Handwriting superstar 🌟
Today in crew, we continued to develop our handwriting and showed we were working hard to get smart by – sitting our letters on the line, forming them from the correct starting point and ensuring our letters are of a consistent size. We then voted as a crew who had made the most progress to win the magic handwriting pen 🖊️
Leo won today, even though he voted for someone else ♥️ which also shows just how kind he is.
Improvements in handwriting in MI
Just one example of the massive improvements in presentation in Crew MI! Feeling super proud right now 🙂
Road Safety Week
This morning in community crew, Crew MW looked at a lollipop person and what their job is. We talked about how they can help us to cross the road safely, and how we can cross the road safely if there isn’t a lollipop person to help us. We had lots of fun going into our outdoor area to practice crossing the road safely!
Remember: stop, look both ways, listen!
