We are encouraging the children at home to take part in Accelerated Reader by offering an extra hangout at 1pm where the children can come along and just read! The children in the classroom are also reading so it is a nice chance to join together to do something fun but relaxing!
Today, Year 6 began Case Study 2 by looking at the life of Charles Darwin whose book, ‘On the Origin of Species’ is considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
To start with, the children were given a five minute starter where they were tasked with drawing a quick sketch of what comes into their heads when they think of a scientist. Having looked through the drawings, it was amazing to see how similar they all were despite being given no prompts or ideas beforehand. It was interesting to see how children imagined a scientist to be (i.e. The wacky hair style, glasses and large white lab coat) compared to what an everyday scientist actually is.
Once we had spent time discussing what a scientist does, we then began looking at the life of Charles Darwin by comparing two images; one at the start of his career and one from the end.
The children then created notices and wonders whilst also inferring what the images were trying to depict. In addition to this, they also made educated guesses as to what work Darwin may have carried out throughout his lifetime.
Here are some of the fantastic notices and wonders that were generated.
Well done to those who reflected upon their online learning today – it is great to see so many detailed reflections.
Today in English, the children in Y6 explored The Mystery of the Missing Painting! They had to use their retrieval reading comprehension skills (as well as detective skills!) to read through the scenario and the suspect statements. They then had to figure out who stole the painting using all of the reading provided!
I was so impressed with the groups that got it quite quickly! You would definitely make great detectives!
Why not have a go yourselves? There are 3 different levels to try (1 star, 2 stars and 3 stars) but each gives the same answer.
Let me know who you think the suspect is!
A big shoutout this week goes to Sophie who has produced some fantastic work from home. She has produced some amazing artwork whilst also gathering information about evolution, which links to our expedition theme, ‘Why is Evolution Important to our Existence?’ Keep up the good work Sophie!
    
Earlier this week the children began their sketches of the famous Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England. They are all looking amazing so far and we look forward to seeing the finished article. More updates coming soon!
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?
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!
