As part of our celebrations for Science Week, we invited our adults to investigate with us! We followed instructions to make slime, planted our own sunflower seeds to take care of, made and tested cup phones and recreated the life cycle of a butterfly.
Thank you to all of the grown ups who joined us to become scientists for the morning.
Mrs Parsons xx
Each year, March 8th is observed as International Women’s Day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women from all around the world
Today in Crew Parsons, we talked about women who have been influential in our lives and women we have learned about during our expedition and crew such as Rosa Parks, Greta Thunberg and Professor Sarah Gilbert.
The children generated words which are qualities we think these women all have. They then decided who they know who show them these qualities everyday. We made our word cloud into cards to show the people at home and school how much we appreciate them – so if you received a card today – thank you for being influential to the children in my crew 💛
Mrs Parsons xx
This morning in class 5 we have been preparing for our next recipe. We have decided to make muffins – but with a healthy twist!
We started by researching lots of different muffin recipes and decided what the main ingredients were, what we could change and made an anchor chart of imperative verbs came across to help us with our recipes.
We then did a tally chart of our favourite types of muffins to decide which we wanted to bake. I was really impressed at how confident we were counting in 5’s.
Next we got busy generating our shopping lists ready for our baking. We thought about prices, using commas in a list and some of us even completed Mrs Parsons’ Asda order ready for tomorrow!
Awesome job class 5.
We decided to put our reading skills to good use this morning and revamp our bookmarks!
We read instructions carefully and followed the directions to make some new cool bookmarks.
It was lovely to see everyone supporting each other with the reading, cutting or folding. It meant the whole of Crew Parsons left with a completed book mark.
Well done guys ❤️
This morning in crew we have been trying out some different calming techniques to help us. We tried out three different ones.
The first was finger breathing. This is where you use the outline of your hand to help you breathe in and out. One round gave you five, big relaxing breaths.
The next was called settling thoughts. This one was where you focussed on the sounds you could hear around you like birds tweeting, mindful music or the wind in the trees.
The final strategy was the listening game We heard the sound of a bell and we had to activate our listening to see how long we could hear the bell for.
Elizabeth enjoyed the listening game because it was really calming. Jack agreed! Katya liked the finger breathing strategy because she hadn’t seen anything like that before. Lottie enjoyed the finger breathing too because she was able to close her eyes and really focus.
I wonder when we could use these strategies outside of crew sessions.
Great start to the week Crew Parsons xx
This week, class five have been working really hard writing instructions for a Greek style salad. Today we have tested out the instructions using our new design technology skills. We were really proud of the results – it tasted delicious!
Mrs Parsons xx
Class Five are already enjoying our book day celebrations!
This morning we have been using different skills and equipment in a safe way to chop, grate and peel.
We are going to use these skills over the coming weeks to follow some delicious recipes.
Awesome job Class Five.
Mrs Parsons xx
This morning we shared a story called Ruby’s Worry. We talked bout where our happy places were and we discovered that it’s usually people or animals that make them special to us. We also thought about who we could share a worry with because we all get worries every now and again.
It was lovely to see how supported and loved we all feel ❤️
Mrs Parsons xx
I needed some help this morning making a jam sandwich for my breakfast, after a few attempt class five came up with some great instructions to help me.
They even managed to make and enjoy their own delicious sandwiches following their instructions.
We discovered that time conjunctions and imperative verbs are crucial to a good set of instructions.
Great work class five,
Mrs Parsons xx
