If you get a spare minute to read these fantastic dragon descriptions, you will be blown away!
The ambitious vocabulary choices, super punctuation and beautiful handwriting and presentation have improved on their good first drafts to create these master pieces.
I am so proud of their efforts and the way that they used the critiques to create a piece of work that they are extremely proud of.
Well done year 2
Mrs Shaw x
Continuing with strategies to improve our reading, Crew Rodgers memorised and performed a paragraph from our new class text ‘Zog’. Did you know creative activities such as this are proven to elevate mood and are excellent ways to look after your mental health?
Loving the jazz hands guys!
In Expedition, we collated research about Charles Darwin and his life to create a biography. We worked in groups to retrieve information and we shared the facts that we had learned.
Well done everyone – great reading skills today in Expedition! 💫
Seth has been one of the busiest people in Thorne today. He had already finished his snowman before attending all his live lessons. My highlight is his news report of the Volcanic eruption which occurred 2 years ago in New Zealand. Well done Seth you have done yourself proud.
Here is the link to his superb news report
A big shout out to year 4 for their brilliant recounts! We have been very impressed with the children in school and also all the hard work and editing of the children at home. Keep it up year 4!
Crew Rodgers have been practising their reading comprehension test skills today by scanning a piece of text for specific words. This is a great skill to have and will help them to answer questions more quickly in a reading comprehension test. The children were given a piece of text and a felt tip pen. They then had 10 seconds to scan the text for the given word. They all did very well. Why not try give it a try at home with your child’s reading book?
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.
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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!
Some fab photos of everyone enjoying PE this afternoon. Super dancing by all (especially Mr Ambler!)
