Today, we continued learning about nouns. So far we’ve learned about common nouns, proper nouns and collective nouns. It was the turn of partitive nouns which shows how much is a noun. For example: a spoonful of sugar, a cup of tea, a slice of cake
Children worked in pairs to match the partitive noun with the correct noun. Children were encouraged to read them out loud to check sense.
Over our last 2 expedition lessons, we have focused on rationing and why thus became an essential part of the war effort. Children learned that due to the Germans bombing ships, this resulted in a shortage of food. Once we had required ipthe information we needed, children then had the opportunity to become shop keepers and customers, they all came with their ration books and used their coupons. Children realised that due to the restrictions they couldn’t buy what they want but what was needed to feed the family.
Today we became shop keepers and customers to experience what the rationing process was like during WW2. First of all we looked at what basic rations looked like and the amounts people would get on a weekly basis. We then looked at some of restricted items. We then took on the role as shop keeper and customer, using our rationing book and coupons inside. We had to make sure we queued then the shop keeper stamped our rationing books when we had purchased our weekly and monthly items. We soon realised that shops sold out of things very quickly and we had to barter with our peers in order to get some of the items we really wanted!
This week we continued our history case study by starting to learn about the organisation of wartime. We learned there were 4 organisations that people belonged to which were: Armed Forces, the government, special operations and the home front. We discussed that regardless of which group people were part of that everyone played a vital role in the war effort. Children then took on the role of someone from the war and interviewed each other asking questions about when they weee born, where they were stationed and their role. This was an opportunity to practice our reading within our expedition lesson and support each other.
Such a fantastic reading lesson today 🙂 Our entry ticket allowed us to think about what the main character was thinking and saying based on part of the text. We worked with our partner to create speech bubbles and thought bubbles to show this. Next we unpicked our new vocabulary and text marked this as we read. We used a partner read first, followed by an echo read and independent read. We discussed the text as we read, making inferences for parts of the story. We then moved onto our demonstration comprehension. Some great contributions for this, where we used the text really well to find answers. Our exit ticket allowed us to order the story and show our understanding of the text.
In our book talk session, we started the session with a game of among us. Children were given either a word or the definition. They then had to find their match. We’ve been discussing the importance of understanding the vocabulary we read in a text as this helps us to comprehend the text and later apply this to our reasons to read. In addition, we’ve started to really read around the word to see if we can use the text to help us infer the meaning of a word.
In crew, we discussed how important our families are and how these might look different to other people. We started by swapping seats with others based on whether they had siblings, pets etc. Then the children has the opportunity to draw their family.
Today we started a new text. We spent time unpicking the language within it and applying our grammar understanding around nouns and identifying common and proper nouns. We also answered a couple of questions to check our understanding. Awesome HoWLs all round.
During hook week, we began to look at our artwork which will make up part of our final product. We researched our artist, who is inspiring our artwork, Henry Moore. We critiqued some of his artwork which was inspired by the Blitz in WW2 down in the London Underground. We discussed perspective, vanishing point and how to draw trees and buildings in line.
This afternoon in nursery, some children decided to help Mrs Mason make our new batch of playdough! We looked at the ingredients and helped to tip the correct amounts into the bowl before taking it in turns to mix. We then waited patiently for Mrs Mason to take the mixture to the microwave which is when the magic happened! Whilst we waited, we decided to tidy away the mess and wipe the table so we left no trace (Dexter even got the hoover from the home corner out to hoover the table!). When Mrs Mason returned, as if by magic, the mixture was now playdough! We then spent the afternoon playing with it, using our hands and some tools to manipulate it into lots of different creations.
