This week the children have completed a range of reading activities. We have focused on understanding new vocabulary linked to our expedition on rainforests – ‘Why should we help our world survive?’. This led to a brilliant crew discussion around the links between the words vegetation, lush and thriving. The children have also accessed a traditional Amazon tale and discussed their opinions about the characters actions using evidence from the text to support their answers. As always we have ensured that the children have had the opportunity to access books for reading for pleasure too. I am so proud of you all guys – keep up the hard work!
What time is it Mr Wolf?
Today we enjoyed being outside in the sunshine in the playground. We had lots of fun playing games and getting strong!
Becoming Geographers in Year 4
To kick off our Case Study 1- Geography this week, we’ve been learning about different locations and identifying them on a map. We started focussing on places close to home; Thorne, Doncaster, South Yorkshire and England. We then got even smarter learning which countries make up the UK and the capital cities.
Well done guys, I was really impressed by your prior knowledge and your skills when reading a map!
I’d like to award you all with 30 howl points for working hard collaboratively!
Mrs Faulding x
Reading Immersion in Year 4!
In English, we wanted to fully immerse ourselves in to our new text ‘The Last Bear’ where the story is based in Svalbard, Norway. This was the perfect way to put ourselves in to the mindset of our main character April who had just arrived in the baltic, arctic conditions on her new adventure.
After reading the first two chapters outside, we retreated back in to our toasty warm classrooms for a yummy hot chocolate and to write some fantastic predictions about what we believe will happen in our text.
We’d like to make a shout out to all of the children for their excellent listening skills and for sitting so sensibly- you were all super stars! It was a really lovely experience!
Mrs Faulding, Mr Oldridge and Miss Myers x
Y5 Geography
Yesterday In Crew Ambler, We learnt all about physical geography and the different biomes on Earth. Each group then went away to research a biome of their choice to present to each other at the end of the lesson. I was very proud with how hard everybody worked and their presentation skills. Well done Crew Ambler.
Y6 All Block
Crew Knowles have had some great reading session in All Block this week. They have worked collaboratively building on their retrieval, inference and fluency skills. Well done guys!
Characteristics of animals
Afterwards we did a quiz using the animal finger puppets and then in collaborative groups the children sorted animals collaboratively.
To assess their learning this morning they completed an exit ticket where they wrote sentences about specific animals.
What a busy and exciting morning they have had full of lots of expeditionary learning!
Great work crew 👏
Mrs Shaw x
Learning Legends!
A big well done to todays learning legends! We have lots of reasons to shout out today from awesome learning attitudes in maths, great collaboration in English and for showing kindness in our classroom.
Well done guys, super proud as always and a huge high 5 from our crew polar bear too!!
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