What a busy but lovely week we’ve had this week!
In English, we’ve just started our new writing cycle so have been hooked in by doing lots of collaborative learning. We’ve conducted our own debate arguing for/against banning plastic straws. I was blown away by how children expressed themselves and their arguments as well as the great research they carried out using the iPads to gather appropriate evidence.
Later in the week, children worked in groups to become experts in certain areas that linked to our guiding question ‘Why should we protect our beautiful planet’ and then presented their findings to the rest of the class so that in turn, everyone else became mini experts too. Children then worked hard to summarise the finding of each group and record their answers. This was a challenging task as it not only required children to stand up, present and recall their own finding but then listen to everyone else’s and write their findings too. You are all stars!
In Expedition, we are half way through Case Study 3-music and we love it! So far we’ve learnt about rhythmic ostinato, graphic and standard notation as well as taking part in a round within a song. The children split in to groups and performed ‘We don’t talk about Bruno’ from Encanto and they all sang beautifully. I’m excited to see you in the recording studio!
I’m proud of you all as always!
Mrs Faulding x
