Here are just a few examples of some draft writing that the children did today. Tomorrow they will turn this into a newspaper report and use their critiques from their friends today to improve their coherence, vocabulary and punctuation.
Category : Mrs Shaw’s Class
Peer critique at its best 👌
The children have today worked with a partner to read, edit and critique each others writing. I can’t wait to see the improvements in their writing tomorrow, following on from today’s English lesson.
A really great lesson today showing how being kind, helpful and specific in their critiques can support their peer’s learning.
Year 2 maths talk
I am really impressed with the conversations that are taking place during our daily maths talk sessions. The children are using the sentence stems to support their own reasoning and challenge other children’s understanding. Major improvement in this, well done class 8
Mrs Shaw x
Global warming
We also completed an experiment with ice cubes to see how the melting ice caps in the Arctic could affect habitats and settlements.
what a great lesson crew x
Maths measuring equipment
Today class 8 were learning about mass and the type of equipment we could use to measure the weight of items around the classroom.
Lots of fun and great discussions about which objects were heavier and lighter and whether we would use grams or kilograms to measure them.
Super work, well done!
Mrs Shaw x
Phonics sounds and spellings WB 28.2.22
Good morning everyone.
Here are this week’s phonics focus sounds and spellings for each group.
PINK – Phonics sounds – g as in gap, o as in cot, c as in cat, k as in kit
Spellings – do, to, got, gas, top, mop, cat, can, kit, kip
RED – Phonics sounds – ai as in train, ee as in tree
Spellings – do, to, raid, gain, paint, faint, seen, tree, green, keep
BLUE – Phonics sounds – oy as in boy, ir as in girl, ue and in glue , aw as in claw
Spellings – said, you, joy, loyal, twirl, third, due, glue, straw, law
Any questions please ask
Miss Rodgers x
Doncaster stories
Key stage 1 took part in a webinar last week as part of the Doncaster stories event. We heard the story of Nen and the Lonely Fisherman read by its author Ian Eagleton, and then took part in an interactive art session with the book’s illustrator, James Mayhew. Below are some of the wonderful drawings the children produced.
Celebrating KS1!
We have lots of wonderful children to celebrate today in KS1. What a wonderful bunch! We have lots of Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind champions, lots of HOWLs given this week and some awesome readers too!
Big shout out to Crew Clay for getting 100% attendance this week too! Mrs Clay’s crew have won the attendance money and are saving up for something special! Don’t forget, the crew with the best attendance each week win REAL MONEY that your crew can save to spend on something awesome.
Keep up it year 1 and 2, you are superstars!
From all of us in KS1 x
Outdoor maths
Features of a newspaper report
Class 8 were unpicking the features of a newspaper report today. They worked together in groups to discuss the meaning of the features and then highlight them in the newspaper report that their group had. There were some super conversations about vocabulary. I can’t wait to build up their writing and see these features included in their own work!
Mrs Shaw x