Reading into Writing: Blog items
Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:45pm
Today in reading into writing, year 4 have been reading different adventure themed character descriptions. The children read through the different character descriptions and found the features of each one so they could compare them.
Date: 9th Jun 2021 @ 5:33pm
Reception have been reading the story 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have been very busy acting out the story using puppets, writing about our favourite part of the story, making houses out of cardboard boxes and collaging paper plates to create our favourite characters. We learnt that "bricks are strong" and that is why our houses are built from them!
Date: 18th May 2021 @ 9:28pm
Over the past few weeks the children in Willow class have had their classroom transformed into superhero central. We have enjoyed reading lots of different superhero stories, using our imagination to create our own superhero narrative, making and painting superheros, working our superhero maths equations and drawing and writing about our own superheroes. Come and have a look at our amazing work.
Date: 18th May 2021 @ 5:03pm
This week's topic in Reception has been Super Heroes! We have been dressing up, acting out our own narratives, writing and taking it in taking turns playing maths games. We read the story Supertato, wrote about our favourite part of the story and even made our own Supertato!
Take a look at what some of our photos!
Date: 18th May 2021 @ 1:59pm
This week in Reception we have been reading the story Supertato. We identified all the different vegetables in the story and talked about the importance of making sure we include these in our diet. We then wrote some sentences about Supertato and labelled the super veggies using our phonics knowledge. At the creative table we used a range of different meduims and materials to create our own 'Supertato' models and pictures. Have a look at our wonderful work!
Introducing the superb cast of a Midsummer Night's Dream!
Date: 17th May 2021 @ 9:03pm
Twenty children from Year Five are going to be a Royal Shakespeare Company film this summer along with children from other local schools. Everyone has been really committed to learning their lines and are enjoying paericipating in such an exciting project! Here are a few photographs of the cast.
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 8:00pm
At 9.50 this morning we listened to Anthony Horrowitz broadcast for the ‘Take 10’ event. We listened to him explain why he enjoys reading, where his favourite place to read is and what his favourite type of books are. At 10 o’clock it was then our turn to read! We each selected a book or comic we wanted to read and had ten minutes of independent reading. After this we then briefly discussed our favourite books and what we like about them. All the children enjoyed having the time to read and talk about books they enjoy!
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 7:52pm
This week in our Reading into Writing sessions we have been using 'and' and because to extend our sentences. We began the week by finding and building sentences containing 'and' and worked on writing the remainder of a given sentence. For example, 'I went to the shop and...'
"bought some sweets!"
"saw my friends!"
"my mum bought some milk."
We then linked our learning to the story 'Aliens Love Underpants.' We described different aliens from the story, using and to extend our sentences and connect two ideas.
We have also then began to talk about using commas! Miss Kay showed us a sentence she had written about the aliens, but it had too many 'ands!' We learnt how to use commas in a list, and we will continue our work with this.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 11:46am
In our computing lessons, we have been improving our typing and presentation skills.
We have used our computing skills across the curriculum too by manipulating shapes in maths and writing up our Hot Write from Reading into Writing.
Date: 2nd May 2021 @ 11:11pm
In Reading into Writing we have been reading and writing quest stories. We based our story on the picture book
Date: 27th Apr 2021 @ 2:59pm
In Reception we have been reading the story
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 12:58pm
Here in Cedar, we have begun our new Reading into Writing journey focusing on Biographies. We began by reading through a number of biographies of famous people, picking out the main features of the genre. We also identified some GPS features within the genre and have been working on developing our skills. We first identified when and why we use capital letters. We learnt what the difference is between proper nouns, common nouns and pronouns. We then learnt how to use apostrophes for contractions and procession. We are looking forward to applying our new skills in extended writing when we write our own biography about Neil Armstrong.
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 7:15am
Today we took part in another No Pen Day. We spent time working with others and discussing odd one out pictures. This involved looking at sets of numbers/pictures and working out which one we thought was the odd one out. We had to give clear reasons for answers. In English, we continued with our Quest stories and looked through the book
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 3:07pm
Today we had no pen day at school!
For Maths, we cut our whole piece of paper into different fractions, including
Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 2:10pm
Today we have been talking about how we celebrate Easter. The children enjoyed chatting with one another explaining all the lovely things they do with their families and why we celebrate Easter with our families.
"I go on a Easter egg hunt in my garden" Harley-May
"The Easter Bunny comes to my house and bring me chocolate eggs" Arthur
"Jesus dies on the cross and came back to life" Lyra-Rose
"I decorate all my house with my mummy" Ella-Rose.
The children then enjoyed making their own Easter cards at the creative table and writing their own messages to their family and friends. Have a look at our super writing
Date: 17th Mar 2021 @ 5:25pm
This week we have been continuing our animal topic by looking at animal patterns, making animal and repeating patterns, sorting animals (by the number of legs, climate, patterns) and reading the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle.
We still continued to look for signs of Spring and drew pictures, wrote words, captions and sentences to capture these experiences.
Date: 16th Mar 2021 @ 4:16pm
Today in Reading into Writing, Year 2 went on a riddle hunt. We worked in pairs to try to solve riddles and get the most points. We will be going on to writing our own riddles very soon for you to solve!
Date: 16th Mar 2021 @ 3:50pm
Year 4 had a great morning looking at newspaper articles from the publishers called First News, which is a newspaper for children. We looked at one article together and then they used pens to highlight the key features of another article by First News in pairs.
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 11:39am
Well, that wasn't the start to the new term we were all hoping for! We are back to learning from home and the nursery children have adapted brilliantly! They have been doing lots of practical activities to help with their counting, phase 1 phonics, listening and attention and physical development. Well done everyone - you are amazing!
Holly Online Learning- Winter!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 12:41pm
We have been learning about Winter.
We have been listening to wintery stories, such as Jack frost and then drawing and writing about them.
Sometimes we used the Seesaw tools to do our work, sometimes we used paper and pencils but we always made sure we practiced our handwriting too.
Holly Online Learning- Phonics!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 12:27pm
We have been very busy continuing learning our phonics at home.
Each day there is a phonics lesson to watch followed by reading and writing activities to complete at home.
Here is some of our work!
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 7:45pm
We're not going to let a little thing like a national lockdown get in the way of our learning!! In Reading into Writing, we have been looking at figurative language, with a focus on metaphors and personification. We have practised how to turn similes to metaphors and how to bring non-human things things to life using human action verbs. We then watched a video that showed a very angry sea and began writing metaphors to describe the sea. There were some excellent metaphors written!! For our end of unit piece of writing, we wrote a metaphor poem about an angry sea. Here are just three examples.
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 4:06pm
Well done to all those children who have been completing work during this first week of lockdown. We have been so impressed with the work and effort you are putting in. We know it isn't easy working from home, but the effort is really appreciated and don't forget by giving it a go and sending us your work, we can respond and help and support you! Just remember, every day you need to complete your tasks on SeeSaw, go on Reading Plus, go on Spelling Shed and go on My Maths.
Keep up the hard work Year 4!
Date: 17th Dec 2020 @ 10:08am
We have been learning about similes, metaphors and alliteration in Reading into Writing and creating our own Christmas Shape poems. We have been making them funny as well as using the new features we have learnt. We hope that on Christmas Eve Santa's sleigh soars through the sky over Blackpool.
We have been working very hard to try and improve our reading using reading plus and daily reading at school, and we need to keep doing this over the holidays. Read! Read! Read!
