We have loved learning to ride our bike without stabilisers!
Learning to ride in Y1 🚲
Crew Challenge
This morning in crew, the children worked in small groups to first of all decide on a set of instructions and then show these to another member in their crew However, the challenge was to verbalise the set of instructions rather than repeat them which is an activity they do in  PE.
Afterwards, we debrief the skills that they were learning such as listening, communication and retaining information. Children shared they found this more complicated as we increased the amount of instructions they had to do.
XP Outdoors
We’ve had a lovely afternoon completing a new XP outdoors project. Children had to make mini hedgehogs from salt dough that will go into our outside area.
They had to work in mini crews to make the salt dough and then shape like a hedgehog.
These will be a lovely addition to the outside area.
Final Art Pieces
Well all I can say is WOW!
Not only have the children blown me away with their sketching but they have impressed me with their perseverance. Even though, sketching isn’t their favourite subject they haven’t let it defeat them and give it 100%. I am beyond proud of them and it’s lovely they’ve shared how they are proud of themselves.
Carcroft Cafe! 🍕🍽
What a lovely afternoon KS1 have had, we have enjoyed a lovely afternoon with our families at the carcroft cafe showing off all of our cutting skills and sharing food.
We ended our lunch with decorating some easter biscuits.🐰
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Earth Day 2023!
Dear Parents/Carers,
On Saturday 22nd April 2023 it is Earth Day! Due to us not being in school on that day we will be celebrating the event on Friday 21st April 2023.
Earth Day is an annual event that is focused on supporting environmental protection. The theme for this year is ‘Invest In Our Planet’. As part of our Year 3/4 Expedition for the Summer Term, ‘Earth Shattering Events’, ‘What happens when nature strikes?’, we will be thinking about how amazing and beautiful our planet is!Â
During our Expedition lessons on this day each crew in Year 3/4 will participate in a range of engaging activities, including Earth Day crafts such as making a paper plate earth, creating a collage of the structure of the Earth, making an Earth Day crown and much more! We hope that these will support and engage children in our learning around the planet Earth, as well as allow children to recap their previous knowledge from this current half term where they have been looking at sustainability.
Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day so that you can all see the exciting things that your child/ren have been getting up to throughout the day!
We are also inviting you (parents/grandparents/carers/guardians) into classrooms on this day, Friday 21st April 2023 to come and participate in some of these exciting activities with your child/ren! This will take place from 1:30pm until the end of the school day.
Also as part of this exciting day we are asking for the children (and staff!) in Year 3/4 to come to school dressed in Earth Day colours, examples such as, brown for soil, yellow for the sun, red for the sunset/core of the Earth, green for grass. The Earth is full of many colours so any colour/s will do!
Either at the end of this day or in preparation for the day it would be lovely for you to discuss with your child/ren different ways that we can look after our planet such as, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, recycling etc.
We look forward to seeing your child/ren dressed in a variety of colours for this special celebration!
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Mrs Elmer
Year 3/4 Phase Lead
Animal movement dice
In xp outdoors crew Godley did the animal movement dice . They rolled the dice and did what it said, so they moved like a snake. flapped there arms like an owl , stomped their feet like an elephant and moved like a ladybird.
Chotting in MI
Today we started thinking about our next piece of writing, a character description. We focussed on the appearance of the character from our newspaper article, chotting lots of different language and vocabulary that we could use. We then started to think about figurative language and built some ideas in mini crews. We then applied some of the chotting we did to our own sentences. We will use these tomorrow when we start to write our plot point.
Written comprehension in MI
Today we explored a new text, answering a range of comprehension questions. Some of us even challenged ourselves further by pushing for green standard. A great reading lesson MI 🙂
