A fantastic timestables session today that allowed some of us to become the teacher! The teacher questioned the other children on landmarks and asked each member to explain their reasons for each choice given! I was blown away by how well the children did this! Everybody is keen to have a go at becoming the teacher!
So again we could not get out into our forest area but that didn’t stop us from doing some team building activities. The children got split into 3 teams and then they sent 1 person from each team to come and have a look at what I had built under my blanket using cubes and blocks. After 10 Seconds they had to go back to their team and describe what it looked like and then try and build what they could remember. They had lots of fun doing this and had some brilliant communication skills with their team. Well done Crew Hamill!
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When reading our text today, we had 3 things to focus on when text marking. We used and recorded the symbols well then shared our thoughts and ideas in mini crews and with the whole crew. We are getting much more confident with text marking 🙂
Today we continued with our measures unit, focussing on converting between M’s and KM’s. We multiplied and divided by 1000, recording in both metres, kilometres and a mixture of both. Our work hard howl blew me away today, such positive attitudes by all 🙂
Our crew session today allowed us to start practising our Student Led Conference. We have worked really hard in our crew sessions, thinking about our howls, our beautiful work and our academic progress. We will continue to prepare for next week 🙂
Our expeditionary learning today allowed us to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of different ways. First of all we looked at a variety of objects and thought about how we may group them. We worked well in mini crews to do this. We then moved onto looking at similarities and differences between certain living things and animals. We thought back to our previous lessons on food chains and skeletons to help us with this task. We then moved onto sorting animals into groups using similarities and differences to help us. We thought more about how animals can be grouped including through habitat, physical features and through diet. We discussed the term classify in more detail and related this to ‘taxonomy’. Again, there were lots of reading opportunities where we used fastest finger first to find answers. From here we worked in mini crews to find as many different ways as we could to sort a variety of animal pictures. There was some great collaborative working which was fantastic to see. Our debrief then allowed us to share our groups with the whole crew.
On Friday, we had a special visit from Ian, who is a farmer from Leeds. He brought along some of the animals from his farm and allowed us to stroke, touch and brush them as he told us lots of information about them.
Thank you so much to Ian for coming in and bringing his lovely animals to our school!
We were very lucky to have a visit today from a music expert. Mr Hull brought along more than 10 instruments which he entertained us with. We listened to different types of guitars, drums, wood wind instruments and even a harmonica!
We are very grateful that he took time out of his day to come and visit us. Hopefully he has inspired some children to take up an instrument!
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