In today’s experience lesson we each made our own tin foil boat to see if it floated on water. We balanced coins in the boat to make it even harder. After that, we chotted all of our ideas to think about what actions George did, what he could see and then how he might of felt after giving his shirt to the goat to use as a sail on his boat.
We love singing the song for each plot point.
KS1 have been busy wrapping presents today to donate to Hallam FM’s Christmas Mission. We are so proud of the children showing such kindness and compassion.
This morning we have been perfecting our Christmas performance songs. We have been looking at making sure we are singing in time to the beat, adding in body percussion where needed, and getting the lyrics absolutely spot on! It is sounding really beautiful – we just need to keep practising our lines at home so that the whole performance really comes together ready for next week!
We finished off by continuing to learn how to play the recorder. We applied our knowledge of the notes B and A and put them into a short piece of music. We clapped out the rhythm before adding the instruments. Great work! 🎵
Today we continued our art slice by consolidating our sketching techniques. We experimented with different pencils and tone then practised some different sketching techniques like hatching and cross hatching. We then applied the techniques we had practised to a drawing. This drawing was a Christmas tree and one we will be using in our final piece for our calendar.
A great start to the day in Crew MI, we tried creating a human alphabet! Some great communication and team work this morning!
Today was an experience day for our book The Smartest Giant in Town. In the story George met a goat with a problem. The goat had lost the sail on his boat and he was stuck. We made our own paper boat using our origami skills and discussed how the sail on a boat moves using wind.
In Crew Pashley, our superstar of the week is Charlie! Charlie has been working hard in maths this week and even asked to do extra questions. Me and Mrs Brown are so proud of him for wanting to get smart.
Today we started our Christmas art slice. We started by thinking about the types of paint that can be used in art. We then thought about when we use each type and we explored a range of pictures. We thought about the look the paint gives, the colours that are used along with the techniques. We also offered our own critique based on the pictures. We were then introduced to the artist we will study for this art slice- Vincent Van Gogh. We watched a clip and built background knowledge before creating a class anchor chart. We then looked at a variety of Vincent’s work thinking about what we can see, how the art makes us feel, the techniques that have been used and we thought about what Vincent was trying to express. Our exit ticket allowed us to find different people in the room, voicing facts about Vincent.
Our second lesson allowed us to explore and experiment with different acrylic techniques. We watched a clip to help guide us through the techniques then we thought about Vincent’s art work and the techniques he used. We evaluated each technique thinking about which were reasonably straight forward and which proved a little more difficult. Finally our exit ticket allowed us to offer critique for improvement to others.
