In crew this morning, everyone in Crew Knowles looked at their past arithmetic papers and picked out the questions that they have previously struggled with.
This will really support everyone individually in the run up to SATs to really practise and apply the skills that they don’t feel as confident with.
In reading today, each group were given a set of images from a book. They didn’t know the title of the book and had no context around it either! Each group had to use their inference skills to tell a story based on the images alone. I was so impressed with their skills and picking out the important themes such as deforestation.
Well done, Crew Knowles! You have really worked hard today!
Crew Knowles enjoyed Magic Maths today focusing on strategies to support with remembering the 9 times tables. We focused on the patterns we could see and then applied our knowledge by playing a game. Well done to Gracie-Mae our winner!
Y6 practised their reading fluency skills by performing speeches from our expedition books. Each group read their speech fluently with great passion to protect our endangered species!
We had a lovely day at Tropical World today!
Our first activity was a workshop learning all about the different animals groups as well as how animals have adapted to suit their environment.
After out workshop, we explored Tropical World and enjoyed looking at all of the different animals! It was extremely warm so we felt like we were in a real rainforest!
Here is a round up of some of our Learning Legends as well as our ‘Out of this World’ winners! We had a great week with lots to praise and celebrate! This included some great coaching, responding to feedback, grappling with maths, and even quizzing on Accelerated Reader.
A big shout out to Kayla who won a voucher of her choice from our Accelerated Reader competition!
Y6 have been comparing the life cycles of different animal groups: amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, fish and insects. Each group had to become an expert in their area before moving to other groups to pass on their knowledge. By the end, each group had an anchor chart full of information about each animals group’s life cycle.
Why not recap your learning by watching this video?
To finish off our focus on Children’s Mental Health Week, we listened to a story (read by the fabulous Learning Council) called The Heavy Bag. The story, which focuses on a little girl who has lost her granddad, has a lovely message about sharing our feelings with others to lighten the load.
Why not listen to the story yourself?
After we had discussed the story, we created our own positive affirmations that we can read whenever our bags are feeling a little bit heavy. I was so proud of the lovely phrases that the children came up with and they are sure to put a smile on everyone’s faces!
We also have our own set of positive affirmation cards which we will change each day. Today’s affirmation chosen by the class is …
Freya brought in her National Geographic magazine to share with the class as at linked to our recent learning on deforestation. She read the article about the lynx beautifully to her peers and we learned how deforestation meant that the lynx couldn’t camouflage to catch their prey!
