Today we discussed and explored mental and physical health. We thought about our favourite sports and activities then looked at our heart rate and what happens when we start exercising! We enjoyed playing sporting charades!
Caring crew in MI
Reading in MI
Today we started our first hooked on books reading lesson where we started to explore our new text, ‘African Tales’ We explored the front cover and blurb thinking about what we noticed and we tried to make connections between other texts we had read. We explored and read the text in detail which really engaged us! We all wanted to start reading the book! We then looked at some vocabulary that would appear in the text when we started to read. We thought about definitions of each word and which word class the words belonged to. We then read part of the text using a chorus read, read around the robin as well as reading with our partner. We even started some text marking 🙂
The Jolly Postman visits the UK
To hook us into our new expedition we experienced a very British afternoon.
We started with some ballroom dancing.
We then ate and drank a classical British treat of scones laced with butter and jam and a nice warm cup of tea.
Hopefully the postman will enjoy his visit to the UK.I wonder where he will go next?
Young Voices 2024 🎤
We have arrived for our rehearsal at Sheffield Arena for Young Voices 2024!
New Class text
Today, we have started our new class text. We are excited to discover how this links to our Spring expedition.
Since September, we’ve also read George and the giant Peach, History Hackers – A Roman Rescue and The Night I met Father Christmas. We also read some of The Christmasaurus but unfortunately we didn’t get time to finish it and January isn’t really the time for a Christmas novel.
Crew Shields absolutely love our shared reading text and it’s something we look forward to. Everyone is always asking “Just one more chapter” 😊
Hook week begins in MI
Today we started to explore a new artist- Yinka Shonibare. Yinka explores cultural identity and globalisation. We watched a clip to further our knowledge then worked together to produce an anchor chart. We looked at some of Yinka’s work and offered our own critique based on what we thought the art represented. We then explored African patterns thinking about what we could see, the colours used and what the patterns were like. Our mission was to create our own patterns that will be the book cover of some books in our library. Once we got creative, we ensured we kept stopping, offering critique to each other that would help us improve our work.
We then thought about what the word significant means and significant people from the past and in the world. We thought about people in our own lives that have made a significant contribution to us. These people will be placed on the spine of our books.
We all really enjoyed our morning and are excited to keep working through our art case study.
Lost in the Arctic! ❄️🐻❄️
Oh no! We were exploring the Arctic with our friends when all of a sudden we realised we were lost! An adult had a map on their phone but they forgot the passcode. We had to solve to clues to work out the passcode to the phone to help us work out the way home. We had to use a variety of different maths skills to work out the clues. We really enjoyed doing this escape room and look forward to doing another one.
French – Crew Shields 🇫🇷👖👚
We have been looking at items of clothing and identifying any cognates or near cognates with the translations. We then discussed the different nouns for clothing items and how the determiner changes depending on whether it is masculine, feminine or plural. We applied our new knowledge by completing a written task that required us to think about the rules of the French language and whether the determiners we had chosen were appropriate for the noun. We worked really hard and the discussions we had in our groups were really helpful.
French – Crew Hamill, Crew Thompson and Crew Mcloughlin 🇫🇷🖼🎄
We have used our French knowledge of shape, colour and size to complete a number of different activities to help to embed our learning.
Colour splat – Who can splat the correct colour in the fastest time?
Listen carefully – Who can identify the correct colour and hold up the corresponding block? Can you listen to the sequence and create the matching tower?
Shape matching – Who can identify the correct shape AND the correct colour? Can you work as a team to be the quickest team to do this correctly?
Christmas craft – Using the shapes and colours we have looked at, can you create a Christmas image? Could you describe the shapes you used to create your image in French?
Festive library visit 🎄🎅🏼📚
Crew MW absolutely love going to the library, even more so when we decide to get comfy on the cushions and read a festive story with the lights off!
