Rainbow breathing 🌈🧘🏻

In Crew MW, we have been continuing to look at different feelings. This week we have looked at feeling angry. We talked about times we might feel angry and why we might have those feelings. We then discussed how rainbow breathing could help people who are feeling angry to feel calm and happy again. We followed the tutorial on the screen and we really enjoyed seeing each colour appear after each inhale and exhale.

Harvest!

This week in Crew MW, we have started to look at Case Study 2 in expedition – what can you see if you take a stroll in Autumn? We have started by looking at harvest! We learnt all about tractors and combine harvesters this morning and how farmers grow food throughout the year and in the Autumn, they begin to harvest it all for us to eat! We loved looking at all of the photographs from harvest, and we’re on the look out for farmers harvesting in the fields! I wonder if we will see any combine harvesters on the way to Austerfield on Thursday…🚜 We also loved playing in the tuff tray and talking about the animals and the jobs that the farmer would be doing on the farm – we even built some of our own farms in the small world area!

Building crew and working on our communication skills

In crew MW this morning, our crew worked together to play a game called ‘happy families’. We had to communicate with each other to find all of the family in our colour group. We found this a little bit tricky today as we had to use our words, rather than show each other our cards, but in our de-brief, we talked about what we could do differently next time. We can’t wait to play this game again in crew challenge to see if we can be even better at it!

French – Crew Shields

Today we have been looking at how to identify someone’s hair and eye colour. We talked about the difference in using either a masculine or feminine spelling/pronunciation of a word before looking at different translations of hair colours. We had a discussion about how the French language translates into a different order than the order we are used to speaking. For example, we would say that someone has brown eyes, however, in French it would translate to say that someone has eyes brown. Once we had mastered the French way of constructing sentence, we turned our detective skills on and managed to translate certain sentences to match the description with the corresponding picture.

French – Crew Hamill and Crew Thompson

This week we have been looking at how we greet people at different times of the day (good day, good evening, good night). Once we had mastered our pronunciation and practised matching pictures with the correct greeting, we tested our new knowledge by playing a game of corners. There were pictures up around the classroom showing different activities at different times of the day. Miss McGlone said a greeting and we had to decide which picture matched the time of day for that greeting. We then moved to that picture and waited to see if we had chosen correctly!