As part of our English cycle today, we introduced the new text of The Vanishing Rainforest. Rather than just read the story, the children only had access to the pictures from the book. Each group then had to use their inference skills to retell their own story based on the images alone. Everyone interpreted the images really well and I was very impressed with the accuracy of the inference! There was lots of discussion throughout the lesson with each group building on and sharing their own ideas. Well done Crew Knowles!

In maths we focused on looking at factors, multiples and prime numbers today. To practise the different skills we did an around the room activity accessing lots of different question styles. Crew Knowles did a fantastic job at ‘getting smart’ and all worked collaboratively to support each other. Well done everyone!

As part of our English hook lesson today, Crew Knowles researched forest fires and put together a set of information slides. We looked at what forest fires are, what causes forest fires, and the impacts of forest fires. I was super impressed with everyone’s ‘work hard’ attitudes to learning! Well done!

As part of our Expedition learning this week we have looked at plants and the reproduction of plants. Today. we dissected some lilies and labelled each of the different parts. We have learnt that plants have both male and female reproductive parts and have looked at the process of pollination!

Crew Knowles have done a great job supporting each other to peer critique and edit / improve their draft writing touch downs! I can’t wait to read the final versions!

We have had lots of fantastic Learning Legends recently! Crew Knowles are impressing me in every single way! They are pushing themselves in their learning to achieve their minimum expectation (and above in AJ and Lauren’s case!) in all of their lessons. As well as this, they are showing some great learning characteristics from our HOWLs rubric and are definitely ‘working hard’, ‘being kind’ and ‘getting smart’! Well done guys, you are great role models!

Corey was one our Learning Legends today due to always having a ‘work hard’ attitude. He always puts in his best effort and is really challenging himself in maths! Not only this, Corey loves looking after our environment and definitely follows our Be Kind aspect of our rubric!

As part of our geography case study in Expedition, we have looked at how physical features affect human activity. We explored two countries (Brazil and the UK) and looked at the similarities and differences in farming, transport and leisure / tourism.