We explored the front cover and blurb of our new text on Monday. We focused on the genre and purpose of the book and why we would want to read it. We are really excited to learn facts about climate change, deforestation and rainforests to help us in expedition.
Our new text is called Forests by Jess French.
Crew Robson enjoyed their first Scottie’s Heroes session with Mick today.
They played games and worked together as a team to complete their exercises. Mick was really impressed by Eveah who helped her team and demonstrated great HowLs too.
We are already looking forward to our next session!
Such a lovely morning celebrating Roald Dahl today. We shared our favourite Roald Dahl book with the rest of the crew giving reasons for our choices. We then watched a video clip on Roald Dahl and shared all the facts we had learnt. Mrs McClare then read some of The Twits, her favourite Roald Dahl story! There were so many laughs and giggles whilst we read the story. After reading a couple of chapters we watched a re-enactment of one scene from the story! Children really were laughing a lot!!! I think the pictures say it all!!
In our first magic maths session a child posed the question ‘what makes Magic Maths magic?’ The magic is that all the bits we keep forgetting in maths and arithmetic lessons and consolidated in Magic Maths and when we keep drip feeding it in… Abracadabra! We remember!
Based on gaps in our baseline assessment we focused on squared and cubed numbers and ordering decimal numbers. We will keep consolidating this so it stays in our long term memory!
Last week was spent immersing ourselves into our new Autumn expedition. We started off the week engaging in an Amazon virtual reality experience! We were not keen on the tarantulas but loved flying above the canopy layer and delving deeper into the forest! We worked as geographers exploring the world map focusing on geographical zones of the world. We used resources to help us such as an atlas and a globe whereby we recapped continents, tropics, lines of latitude and longitude, hemispheres and time zones. Did you know we are in the Greenwich meridian? We found it really interesting exploring time zones at the opposite side of the Earth to us!
We then zoomed in on South America looking at the 12 sovereign states (countries that rule themselves). A couple of us even knew the British overseas territories that are part of South America. Next up, we learnt about human and physical features with a focus in Colombia, When exploring on Google Earth we particularly noticed Colombia had a vast range of physical features from emerald green mountains to Caribbean white sandy beaches. We have asked miss to visit Colombia on our next school trip… we can dream!
Hope you have enjoyed reading all about our geography learning,
~Crew Mcloughlin Bloggers
This week in cook stars we made cherry, coconut and chocolate bake. We are loving trying and making new recipes each week! 😋
Yesterday in maths, we were looking at number lines. We learned how important it was to work out what the number line is going up in so that you are able to accurately complete it. Some of us found this a little tricky but we didn’t give up. It was lovely to see some of the crew supporting their peers when they became stuck.
Developing our communication and team work skills in challenge crew this morning 🙂
After taking part in our experience lesson yesterday, we started to think about adjectives and expanded noun phrases in our grammar session. We thought about the first two pages of the story we had read yesterday and chotted using some of the lenses. We created expanded noun phrases based on the pictures. We then took part in a shared write using the language we had just built. Finally we created our own sentences in our books 🙂
Today was a rainy day so we made baby turtles inside . The children really enjoyed showing off their skills.
