Crew Haddock would like to thank the kitchen staff and all the parents that came and supported us in today by buying buns to help raise funds for our school trip. We raised £92.68🧁
Bake Sale
Demonstration Comprehension ✍🏻
In reading today, we started by finding the definitions of words that was scattered around the room. We then read the text aloud using a mixture of strategies such as round robin and echo reading. We then looked at our reasons to read. We had lots of fantastic ideas and used the text to help us.
Ball skills 🎾
In todays PE lesson, we concentrated on developing our tracking and catching skills. We needed to keep our eyes focused on the ball, apply a ready position and move our feet to the ball. First, we warmed up by playing ‘head, shoulder, need and toes” while avoiding the cones and catching the ball. Children then placed their beanbag on top of a cone. They jogged around, avoiding the cones. When I called ‘head’ pupils move to any cone and practise throwing the beanbag up, touching their head and catching the beanbag. We then played “baller” and “switch” for our skills development.
Book talk
In our book talk lessons, we spent some time text marking and ensuring we understood the vocabulary. In the second lesson, we summarised what we’d read on the previous lesson before answering some questions about the text.
Presentation Critique
During academic crew, we had a gallery walk looking at our presentation and how we can continue to improve it.
Science Write up
In science, we have been continuing to look at the effects of global warming by conducting some experiments. Our experiment was looking at how temperature is effected based on the conditions. We placed one thermometer in a plastic container and one in a glass container before recording the results at regular intervals. We found that the glass container held the heat because it created a greenhouse effect and trapped the heat.
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Citizenship Wednesday – Citizenship Crew
Today, Crew Hamill continued their learning on our ‘It’s My Body’ focus in citizenship crew. We learned about the importance of sleep, exercise and healthy eating as well as understanding the negative impact certain things can have on our body. We then organised images into ‘healthy’ and ‘damaging’, detailing which part of our body they impacted on.
Challenge Tuesday – Challenge Crew
In Tuesday’s challenge crew, Crew Hamill played ‘Jump In, Jump Out’. They formed a circle, holding hands, and had to follow instructions as a crew to jump in, jump out, jump left and jump right in unison. As if this wasn’t tricky enough, once we had managed to do this successfully, we were challenged further to do the opposite of the given instruction! This caused some confusion and led to lots of us bumping into each other but we got there in the end!
Mindfulness Monday – Mental Wellbeing 🧘🏻
In Monday’s Mindfulness Monday crew this week, Crew Hamill’s guiding question was ‘How do I look after myself mentally?’ We discussed the importance of simple self-care techniques, including the importance of rest, spending time with friends and family and the benefits of hobbies and interests. We then spent some time creating posters that illustrated what we do for our own self-care.
