Reading: Blog items
Boundary Choral Speaking competition
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 2:46pm
This week we held our annual Choral Speaking competition. From Reception to Year 6, year groups learned poems by heart and performed them to the rest of the school. Once again, the standard was extremely high and we are proud of all the children for taking part. This year's winners are Year 3, who will represent Boundary at the Blackpool Choral Speaking competition on Friday.
Date: 5th Jul 2024 @ 4:23pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the seaside.
We have had lots of fun sensory experiences including splat the sandcastle, underwater tuff trays and our sensory story, 'What the ladybird heard at the seaside'.
We also read Billy's Bucket and enjoyed choosing what we would put in our own buckets. We even created our own seaside scene.
Year 4- Congratulations Albie!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:24pm
Earlier this year, Albie was entered into a creative writing competition called 'Once Upon A Dream- A Collection of Fantastic Words!' He wrote a poem which was about the dangers that our planet faces and how we can save it. This week, we recieved the fantastic news that Albie has been selected for his work to be published in a book! We are so proud of you Albie and we look forward to buying some copies of the book for our library!
Acorns - A visit from the Naughty Bus
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 2:27pm
Acorns have been celebrating Geography day with a visit from the Naughty Bus.
We enjoyed reading the story about the naughty bus and its journey.
Acorns then went on their own journey to explore our school community. Soon the naughty bus was popping up everywhere!! We found he had been to reception class, he had visited Mrs Bunday's office, Year 1, Elmer, the reading tree and Miss Moyes office. We had great fun exploring the school and finally found the bus un the sensory room where we enjoyed spending some time.
We can't wait for the naughty bus to come and visit again to see what our next journey could be!!!
Acorns - Supertato and Health week
Date: 30th Jun 2024 @ 5:40pm
Acorns have been celebrating Health & Well-Being week this week through a variety of activities. Firstly, our very successful interactive sports session which we all loved. Our sensory story was Supertato. We loved listening to the story and exploring the Superveggies!! We had a selection of vegetables to touch, smell and taste before matching them to the correct cards. We also made fruit kebabs and loved tasting a variety of fruit and strengthening our fine motor skills, threading the fruit onto skewers. We counted potatoes and vegetables during maths and even made our own Supertato art work. We finished the week off wearing bright and sporty outfits and developing some turn taking skills during our activities.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:55pm
Acorns have enjoyed meeting the ducklings and learning about their growth and life cycle.
We have incorporated lots of eggciting activities into our learning this week.
We loved our sensory duck themed tuff trays, maths activities and writing activities.
We have been reading Oh Dear and looking for the eggs and enjoyed matching the animals during our sensory story and using the correct noises of the animals.
Acorns have also been busy making ducks during art.
Our highlight was watching the ducks take a paddle in the reception play area before we said good bye.
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.
