Crew Knowles worked hard to plan their setting descriptions of Bear Island this week. They thought carefully about what the character might be able to see, hear, smell, taste and touch on the island and how these could be described. They’ve worked really hard on figurative language including alliteration, similes and personification so I can’t wait to read their final touchdowns!
Thank you to Hope who came from Year 3 to share a story with our crew! She read the story beautifully and was so brave reading it to an older year group! Well done and thank you!
In our crew session this morning, we focused on looking at our Green Top character traits. We cut out all of our character trait statements and tried to match them back up to the correct headings: respect, courage, integrity, compassion, and quality and craftsmanship.
The discussions about each one and which character trait it could link to was amazing and I was blown away! Well done Crew Knowles!
We’ve had a lovely start to National Storytelling Week today in Crew Knowles! We’ve read Chapter 4 and started Chapter 5 of our class text ‘The Last Bear’ and can’t wait to see what happens next! We also enjoyed the Y3 Learning Council coming to support our Accelerated Reader session and everyone was keen to show off their reading to them!
To immerse ourselves into the new class text, the children went out into the gazebo to have the first few chapters read to them. It was cold and windy but the hot chocolate made it much more bearable!
Crew Knowles had the best time swimming today! I was so so proud of how brave they all were pushing themselves out of their comfort zone! It’s safe to say they can’t wait for next week!
We’ve had lots of crafty fun today to immerse our classrooms ready for our new expedition all about climate change and polar bears!
First we created cotton wool polar bears, second we decorated our windows with sparkly stars and third we created polar bears using a page from our new class text! We also created hand print polar bears which look great on display!
I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas holidays!
Just a reminder that Year 4 will start swimming first week back (WC 8th January)! Miss Knowles’ class will swim on Wednesdays and Mr Taylor’s class on Thursdays.
Please make sure you on time for school as we will be getting on the coach at 8.40am. If your child is not in school by that time, they will miss the swimming lesson.
Other reminders which can also be found on the letter:
If you have any questions please see class teachers or email [email protected]
We can’t wait to get started!
We’ve had a gorgeous Christmassy day today! We’ve enjoyed lots of festive activities, Christmas dinner and had fun in the snow globe!
