We are storytellers

This morning in English, the children worked collaboratively to tell a story just from the images. They had to listen carefully to each others ideas and explain their opinions to their group. We then went on to listen to the story and discuss whether our own ideas had been similar or different to the real plot.

I really enjoyed listening to your discussions and story telling.

Recap your modal verbs

Today in Crew Jackson we focused our SPAG learning on modal verbs. The children enjoyed the above song, which recapped the different modal verbs we can use to show certainty and possibility. Now you can enjoy the song at home too!

Deepening our reading skills

Today our reading fluency task was a page from our new class text ‘Can we save the tiger?’. We read all about partula snails and then completed 5 minute reading challenge questions, practicing our retrieval skills.

We are confident readers

Today in Crew Jackson, we were introduced to our new class text ‘Can we save the tiger?’. The children went on a gallery walk looking at and discussing a number of images taken from the book. Through peer discussion they were able to make links and establish that our new book could be about endangered animals.

The children then went on to work collaborative in groups, to develop fluency and apply their knowledge on speech reading, by working together to present a page from the book. I was so impressed with their confident, clear and fluent reading. They pronounced some difficult technical words and thought about the expression they needed to use to impact on the audience.

Well done guys I was so proud listening to each group.

Mrs Jackson

Let’s be scientists

On Friday Crew Jackson spent the morning learning about plant reproduction. They explored the different methods of seed dispersal, found out about self and cross pollination and discovered that some plants do not reproduce from seeds. I think their favourite part of the morning was dissecting a lily and identifying the female and male parts of the flower.

Super work guys as always 🙂

We are authors!

A massive shout out to all of Crew Jackson for their focus and concentration on producing their best writing when completing their final touchdown writing. I can’t wait to read your final stories.

We are scientists

Keep working hard guys!

Celebrating home learning

A massive shout out to Oliver for his awesome home learning. I was blown away with his hard work at home to produce the layers of the rainforest. This morning he showed great confidence in explaining it to our crew.

Thanks for sharing Oliver. You definitely deserve 50 Work Hard HOWL points!