Skellig is such as mysterious book that we still have lots of unanswered questions about him as a character! Here are some of the questions we have so far! Do you have any questions about Skellig?
Category : Mrs Overson’s Class
I have set a challenge in Y5 to beat my time on the following game linked to the 4x table. Can anyone in school beat me?
As part of our English starter, the Y6 children at home had to recap our class text (Skellig) so far! We used Padlet to write our recaps and I was absolutely blown away by some of the responses and the information that they chose to include!
Why not ask your child what has happened in Skellig so far?
During our checkout hangout we reflected on our HOWLS by using a Jamboard. Here are just some of the children’s reflections. It is great to see that they all feel that they are achieving the ‘work hard’ strand of our rubric!
Y6 have really been enjoying the story of Skellig over the last few weeks and I love how engaged the children are by it!
Today we have been writing letters to Skellig, from Michael’s perspective, to ask him to leave the garage at the bottom of the garden as it is about to be destroyed but Skellig just won’t listen to us!
I was so proud of the children both in school and at home because of the effort they put in to the structure and content of their letters. The group at home also responded really well to feedback given in order to improve their letters further! Here are just a few examples of the ones created by the children at home!
Year 6 have been working hard this week to research and gather information about Skara Brae!
Did you know:
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Consisting of eight clustered houses, it was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe’s most complete Neolithic village.
In the winter of 1850, a severe storm hit Scotland causing widespread damage and over 200 deaths. In the Bay of Skaill the storm stripped the earth from a large irregular knoll known as “Skara Brae”. When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village consisting of a number of small houses without roofs. William Watt of Skaill, the local laird, began an amateur excavation of the site, but after four houses were uncovered the work was abandoned in 1868.
The children have been busy this morning transforming their research notes – I can’t wait to see what they produce!
Today we used the ‘Notice, Wonder, Question’ protocol to reflect upon our learning:
In our expedition lesson today we looked at what life may have been like back in the Stone Age. We studied images from a well preserved prehistoric site called Skara Brae. The children used jamboard to generate notices and wonders which will then provide a basis for our future learning. Here are just some of the great ideas and questions they were coming up with.
We had a wonderful lesson on Friday! We completed lots of quizzes and also worked our brains hard to solve maths brainteasers!
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Every time you read a book and quiz on Accelerated Reader you will earn a raffle ticket!
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