A huge thank you to the parents that came to join us today for our family learning afternoon. We set a ‘scrapheap’ style challenge where we asked children and their adults to make buildings and features from our local area. The models produced were amazing and the children had so much fun making them with you. We had a lovely range of models from churches, supermarkets, homes, parks, Green top school and many more. Please see the gallery below of our lovely afternoon.
Impressive grappling with addition
I was blown away by the children’s resilience in today’s maths session. We often talk about how if we find something tricky we know we are learning, and we certainly knew that while working on our additions this morning. We used lots of different strategies to complete our tasks and I was massively impressed with how some of us drew on our learning from our place value unit to represent and solve the equations.
Keep up the good work x
Reading researchers
We had great fun today using our ‘agree/disagree’ placards for our geographical research. We read statements about the poles, equator and tilt of the earth and how this affects the climate and then the children had to indicate whether they agreed or disagreed with the statements.
I was so impressed with how the children used their phonic learning to decode some tricky words. Well done everyone.
Learning legends
Our postcards today went to Thea from Crew O’Neill for her fabulous home learning and to Bobby from Crew Rodgers for marvellous effort in both expedition and maths. Well done superstars.
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
We are Biologists!
This afternoon in Crew Ambler, we have been looking at the life cycles of animals and why reproduction is important. Shout out to everyone in Crew Ambler for their hard work and collaborative group work!
Collaborative Group Speech.
This morning in Crew Ambler, we hooked ourselves into our new text ‘Can we save the tiger?’ Each group were given different sections of the text and spoke about different animals that needed to be saved. I was blown away with how confident everyone was standing up and speaking in front of others. Well done everyone!
Our Top Mathematicians Today
Well done to Albie and Hudson for being our postcard winners today after a brilliant maths session about 2D shape. Well done boys!
Dancing Queen!
Martha talked about her dance show today and told the crew how she danced to Alice in Wonderland. She showed the crew her programme and pointed out the children they would know from our class.Â
Martha shared how much fun it was and promised to show us more photos from her next shows! Well done Martha we are super proud of you and you looked beautiful!
The Human Knot
In crew this morning we talked about how important teamwork and communication is. We played the human knot game and then discussed how good communication and teamwork can help us with our learning.
