This morning we worked really hard and have been exploring our fraction wall. At first we thought that the bigger then number, the bigger the fraction but we soon learnt that was not the case. Actually, the bigger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
In today’s experience lesson we read about how Florence Nightingale looked after the poorly soldiers when it got dark. We learnt she was also called the lady of the lamp as she carried a lamp around with her in the evening. In our experience lesson we all created our own lamp to be able to be just like Florence. It was a tricky cutting and sticking task but we all followed the instructions.
Today we used concrete and pictorial objects to help us with our new block of maths, measures! We all worked well with our partner discussing how we could measure objects and reasoned why we selected the order in which we placed objects.
For our experience lesson today we were thinking about Florence Nightingale and how she was nicknamed ‘The Lady of the Lamp’ by the soldiers in Scutari Hospital. To start with we all made our very own lantern.
We then pretended to be Florence and walked around talking to all the injured soldiers during the night.
Yesterday was a successful crew session, it was the first challenge crew where every child applied what they have learnt in other crew sessions around team work, such as respectfully disagreeing, valuing everyone’s opinion, compromising and communicating. They blew me and Mrs Rhodes away! Keep it up Crew!
The children played a game of hide and seek, whereby the children pretended to be Vlad the flea and hid in the hospital to make sure the adults (Florence Nightingale and the nurses) could not find them and kick them out of the new nice clean hospital. We then acted out looking after the poorly soldiers and gave them the medical care that they needed.
This week and next, we will be raising funds for The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. We have child friendly poppies (no pins) for sale in school. If you wish your child to have one of these poppies, please send them into school with a donation (minimum 10p).
The poppies will be taken to each crew during crew time, where your child will be able to place their donation into the poppy appeal box and receive a child friendly poppy. As remembrance day is soon approaching, I am sure your child’s crew leader will be discussing remembrance day and the significance of poppies in crew sessions.
This morning in Crew Haddock, We used our Listening and communication skills to followed and give Lego instructions to build Lego models.
Today we played hide and seek with Vlad! To begin with the children estimated how big Vlad was and were shocked at just how small a flea actually was. They then spent time searching for Vlad and after a few clues Henry found him hiding under a table!
