Crew Robson and Crew Godley have been working hard, to get smart today by creating their own colour wheels using their art skills. We will be using our background knowledge to create a piece of crew art work tomorrow – watch this space!
We began by exploring what a colour wheel is and how we can vary shades and tints of colours by adding black or white. We were amazed by the children’s resilience and determination to achieve the desired effect.
Crew Godley have had a fantastic two days developing ‘Crew’, we’ve worked incredibly hard to show we are ready for the challenges of Year 2! We have developed our relationships and communication skills by listening carefully to one and other an allowing everyone to have a voice within our crew.
We have built crew by creating our own crew bunting using printing skills, played crew games to develop our communication skills, carried out our stewardship roles to keep our environment looking beautiful whilst also having time to take part in some yoga 🧘♀️ It’s been a bust two days!
As part of our first week back, we are focusing on crew and building our positive relationships. To give us focus, Year 4’s guiding question is: How can we work together to achieve an end goal?
To allow children an opportunity to do this, they worked in small groups to make some buns. However, they were only given the ingredient but no instructions. The children then had to use experts in their group to support them. Thankfully, everyone was successful and they got to enjoy a bun during afternoon crew.
When I asked the children how this activity helped answer the guiding question, they explained that they had to communicate (talk about what to do and how), they used others as experts because these children baked regularly, everyone had a responsibility to ensure they had the correct ingredients and equipment, they supported each other, they took turns but also allocated each other with jobs to ensure everyone was involved. By doing all of these things, it meant they were able to make a bun which was edible.
Today we carried on with our art learning. Children had to create their printing block based on their interests. They’d been asked to create an image that represents them. It was lovely seeing some of the children supporting their peers when they’d completed their own.
Then it was time to print which required children to work quickly and carefully. It’s important to not allow the paint to dry otherwise the print would be unsuccessful. We discussed how we could improve if we were to complete the project again. Children suggested making their images bigger or using more paint which would allow a clearer image.
Despite it being the first day back, Crew Shields made a visit to the library so that children could get cracking with reading at home. We know the importance of reading regularly to support children with their fluency and understanding. We discuss that I will be checking books on a Friday and recording their reading sessions. Raffles up for grabs for those avid readers.
Crew Shields had a great first day back. We spent the morning completing some crew challenges which tested our resilience. The crew discovered which children brought out the best in them and this led to their success. Lots of smiling faces which was lovely to see on our return.
Ready for our walk on Friday we have started to create kindness gifts to put a smile on someone’s face in the community, who might find them. We loved making our kindness stone, we made it look like a rainbow fish linking to our story.
In Crew Marsh we read and unpicked the book Rainbow fish, we learnt that the fish was not kind at the start of the book but became kind towards the end. We linked this to our be kind Howls. Then the children created their own rainbow fish which is going to go in our crew kindness fish tank. All children did an amazing job at describing their rainbow fish with an adjective.
We have all been busy today developing our new crew. We have taken part in lots of team building and communication activities which have allowed us to work together effectively. We really enjoyed building a marshmallow tower, seeing who could construct the tallest tower. We also played railroad tracks where Mrs McClare called out different opposites and we had to decide which we preferred! We also used balloons and slips of paper to get to know each other a little better. We all wrote a question on our slip of paper then placed it inside our balloon before blowing it up. We then circled up, taking it in turns to pop our balloons and read out the question inside. We all shared our answers.
We also started our art work on printing. We discussed lots of things about ourselves then used this in our art work to create a picture that represents us. We created a key where different shapes represented different things about ourselves. We then printed our shapes using different colours and we also tried to layer our shapes in different ways.
Don’t forget to come along to the KS1 reading cafe tomorrow at 3pm to share a story with your child. Hope to see you all there!
