Reading: Blog items
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:47pm
Acorns have been exploring the frog life cycle.
To support our learning, we have been reading The Perfect Ribbit and signing the frog life cycle song.
We have enjoyed listening to the story, practicing frogs sounds, singing and using the sensory animals to support our understanding.
We even had a visit from the tadpoles in our pond.
We looked at how they have changed from the last time we saw them and noticed they had grown some back legs.
We are looking forward to their next visit when they become froglets and then frogs.
Year Three- Dan Worsley workshop!
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 11:18am
Today the children in Year Three were visited by Dan Worsley, a fantastic local author! The children loved hearing Dan’s fantastic stories about an alien and an evil pirate! We then had a workshop in which we discussed how to describe characters and how to add detail about appearance and feelings. We then planned a piece about an evil pirate which we wrote in the afternoon!
Date: 10th Jun 2024 @ 12:32pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have been practising especially hard for our phonics screening. We have completed lots of different activities in our provision to recap all our diagraphs and trigraphs and to continue to practise reading real words and alien words.
Acorns - Sam plants a sunflower
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 4:42pm
This week Acorns have been reading Sam plants a Sunflower, as our class story.
We have enjoyed learning about how plants grow and what they need, including soil, water and sunlight.
We have been developing our focus and attention, taking part in small adult led group activities based around our story.
Acorns have enjoyed the immersive sensory story, especially being sprayed with the water spray when Sam plants his seeds and waters them.
Acorns have experienced planting their very own sunflowers and can't wait to see them grow.
Year 2- Character Descriptions
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 7:50am
This week, Year Two were lucky to have a visit from author Dan Worsley. We began the morning by participating in a storytelling assembly where Dan kindly shared one of his stories with us before he came to visit our classroom and delivered a descriptive writing workshop with us. As part of our Reading into Writing unit, Twisted Fairytales, we picked a character from famous fairytale and created our own evil troll that we could use in our final write. Some of us were lucky and got to put on Dan's storytelling waistcoat to share some of our descriptive sentences. Thank you to Dan for coming in, we all really enjoyed the workshop and it has inspired us to write some incredible twisted fairytales.
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 7:55am
Today Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic assembly with Dan. We were all throughly engaged with Dans story about Dave the horse, who had some very interesting powers! We all listened and participated extremely well and Dans assembly inspired lots of us to want to tell our own stories about Dave!
Acorns - Ben plants a Butterfly Garden
Date: 12th May 2024 @ 6:25pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the story Ben plants a Butterfly Garden.
We are continuing to develop our understanding of the butterfly life cycle.
We have enjoyed a variety of sensory tuff tray experiences as well as the sensory story.
We have also noticed the change in our caterpillars, which a now chrysalis.
We have engaged well in lots of different literacy and numeracy activities, developing our overwriting skills and number knowledge. We are continuing to develop our engagement in adult-led activities alongside our peers.
What a busy week.
Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:36pm
This week Acorns have been reading the Hungry Caterpillar. We have engaged in a variety of learning activities and experiences to support our understanding of the world around us and the life cycles of butterflies. We have enjoyed making hungry caterpillars in Art and even feeding our very own hungry caterpillar. We found caterpillars and butterflies everywhere, including in our tuff tray and our 'Bucket'. We even had our very own caterpillars come to live in Acorns! We can't wait to see what happens.
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 9:00pm
We have enjoyed our sensory story this week all about Jaspers Beanstalk. We have been engaging in small adult led activities to support our understanding, learning and developing our focus and concentration. We have loved copying the actions from the book, planting, digging, watering and watching to see what grows. We have enjoyed exploring a variety of vegetables through touch, smell and taste if we were brave enough. We also enjoyed counting vegetables and trying to order beanstalks from smallest to biggest. For some of us we counted to 10 and others showed great listening skills and engagement. What a busy week.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:06pm
This week, Oak class have begun their new class novel of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We don't want to give too much away so read the following blurb and see if it's something you'd like to read:
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:30pm
This term Acorns topic is Let's Grow. We will be looking at the growth of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables as well as the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. We will be exploring spring as we see the new growth all around us. This week we have incorportated the story Jack and the Beanstalk and Jasper's Beanstalk in our learning and learnt about planting and growing. We planted our very own beans and are excited to watch them grow.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 1:56pm
Year 4 have had a great time during no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we started our next journey which to write a poem based on rivers. We looked at a range of different poems and discussed common features such as alliteration, personification and rhyming.
In Maths, we learnt how to represent hundredths as fractions. Firstly, we use base ten blocks to understand how to represent hundredths as fractions. Then, we used our digital literacy skills to use rekenrek on our chromebooks. We discussed how many beads were on each side of the rekenrek and talked about how to represent each of the sides as a fraction.
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 10:57am
Acorns have had a great week exploring space and shape. Our story of the week, Whatever Next, saw us travelling into space. We enjoyed the sensory experience of boxes as a rocket and a collander for a helmet. For maths, we explored shapes and made colourful rockets using lots of different shapes. We used a space theme to support our writing and mark making skills. What a busy week.
School Council - New Reading Books
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 10:07pm
The school council met today to discuss what kind of books they like to read? Which authors do they like?
The school councillors brought the results of their class discussions and they had many great ideas. This included, the authors Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl and books such as, Horrid Henry, fairytales, and non fiction books about the world and dinosaurs etc.
We will meet nearer the time to discuss the Summer Fair and how to organise the toy sale.
Acorns - The day the dinosaurs came
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
Acorns have had a fun-filled dinosaur themed day today. We have enjoyed exploring dinosaurs in our tuff tray, listening to our sensory story, 10 little dinosaurs and incorporating dinosaurs into our number and literacy learning. Our favourite part was meeting the baby dinosaur Sky. She let us touch her and feel her skin and then we had fun feeding her balls so she could throw them for us to catch. What a great day!
Date: 18th Mar 2024 @ 2:52pm
Acorns have had a fantastic day out visiting Blackpool Zoo. We had lots of fun looking at the different animals and having a picnic in the sun. We have spent time reading and learning about different animals this term and it has been great to see them in real life. What a great day out!
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:52pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun writing narratives. We have begun with a short story based on the silent video 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' Our task was to write the conversations that we thought would occur between the three main characters. We also added description throughout our stories to bring both characters and settings to life.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 11:10am
We took part in Eco Schools World Book Day Book Swap. We encouraged our families to donate books which they no longer use. To eliminate waste and save them going to landfill, we collected the books and organised a book swap day! All of the children were then able to choose a free book to take and keep. Everyone was delighted with their ‘new’ books.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 10:36am
What an exciting day we all had!
All the children looked fantastic dressing up as their favourite book characters. To celebrate reading, we read our favourite books in the Reading Den and Book Nook and drew a picture of ourselves in our costumes.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 9:04pm
What a fantastic day we have had for World Book Day 2024. All of the children made such an effort with their costumes and everyone looked amazing. To celebrate reading we drew our favourite character and talked about why we liked them. We virtually interviewed some of our favourite characters including George from George's Marvellous Medicine, Harry Potter, The Twits and The Cat in the Hat. We also participated in a class book swap and we can't wait to start reading our new titles!
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go - Dr Seuss
Nursery Celebrate World Book Day
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 9:00pm
Wnat a fabulous World Book Day! Nursery was full of fantastic book characters including the little boy from "How to Catch a Star", Goldilocks, Paddington Bear, Where's Wally and even Zog the dragon! The children celebrated the day by making book marks, drawing a picture of their book character and sharing different books with their friends and teachers. What an amazing day.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 7:45pm
Acorns welcomed the 3 little pigs, the big bad wolf, the Gruffalo and Mary Poppins into class today, celebrating World Book Day. We had a great time sharing stories and enjoying different activities based around our stories. We especially liked building a brick house and blowing it down!!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 7:32pm
Acorns welcomed the 3 little pigs, the big bad wolf, the Gruffalo and Mary Poppins into class today, celebrating World Book Day. We had a great time sharing stories and enjoying different activities based around our stories. We especially liked building a brick house and blowing it down!!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:47pm
What a day we had for World Book Day in Rowan! We took part in a live quiz, we spoke about the outfits we had chosen and some children even swapped books with eachother. A great effort by all on some fantastic outfits.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 12:56pm
Take a look at our amazong World Book Day costumes! We all dressed as our favourite characters today and shred our reasons for picking our characters. We joined a football quiz, joined in a great book Kahoot, read our reading books and finally we created our own story boards.
We were also lucky enough to have our very own book swap! We brought in a book that we had read and swapped it for one we were yet to explore!
What a brilliant day of books!
