Reading: Blog items
Year 6 Poetry Workshop with Nathan Parker
Date: 6th Dec 2022 @ 4:56pm
Today Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from local author/poet - Nathan Parker. He spent the first part of the visit talking about his works and his inspirations for writing. The children then took part in several short activities that got them to think about emotions and rhyming words. By the end of the session, the children created a whole class poem around pets - we all had a great time with Nathan and we hope to work with him again.
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 11:00am
We have been reading the story "Whatever Next!" By Jill Murphy. In the story a little bear makes a rocket out of a cardboard box and flies to the moon! We have had some super spaced themed activities including making space ships out of shapes and throwing the right number of space rocks in to a box. A favourite was making a giant planet by splatttering paint - great for working those big muscles. The chiildren also did some great mark making describing their trip to the moon.
Year 1 The Jolly Christmas Postman!
Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 7:18pm
After reading our new text we received a letter from ‘The Jolly Postman!’
We used our phonics knowledge to decode the letter and to find out what he had to say! We also identified the address, the date, who the letter is to and who the letter is from. Over the next few days we will be reading a range of different letters, highlighting the key features and further developing our understanding of the purpose of letters.
Nursery - Aliens Love Dinopants!
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 11:28am
It's been pants crazy in nursery this week! We have been reading the story "Aliens Love Dinopants" all about aliens and dinosaurs who share a love of underpants! The children have been busy designing their own underpants and creating their own aliens. They really enjoyed blowing paint with a straw and adding eyes to make an alien! They have been counitng aliens, matching pants with the same pattern and feeding aliens at the funky fingers table! One day we even discovered some alien eggs. We waited patiently until they were ready and then we help the baby aliens hatch from the eggs!
Date: 22nd Nov 2022 @ 12:03pm
This week we have started a new Reading into Writing journey. For this journey we are learning about playscripts. We have started our journey by reading some good examples. The first example we read was a playscript about Boudicca. We found the features of a playscript then had a go at acting the scene out.
Reception There's No Such Thing As The Gruffalo
Date: 21st Nov 2022 @ 7:44pm
Reception have been reading the story 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson this week. To help develop our language and oracy the children have been using the puppets at the storytelling table to retell the story in their own words. The children used some fabulous words to describe the Gruffalo including 'scary' 'terrifying' 'enormous' 'fierce'. The children have also been enjoying role playing in our Gruffalo Cafe making some delicious food for the woodland creatures. To consolidate the children's learning they have been making lists of the Gruffalo's favourite food, labelling the characters from the story, painting pictures of the Gruffalo, making different length snakes and making models of the Gruffalo using recycled material.
Have a look at some of our wonderful work.
Date: 2nd Nov 2022 @ 11:37am
Enter Nursery if you dare this week! There have been some very spooky goings on as we celebrated Halloween. We read the story "What's in the Witch's Kitchen" and turned our homecorner in to a witches kitchen - eye ball soup anyone? The children developed their fine motor skills by hammering witches fingers in the a pumpkin and practised counting by sticking legs on to a spider. It's been a very creepy week!
Date: 31st Oct 2022 @ 10:09pm
Today the children have enjoyed taking part in lots of halloween activities. They enjoyed counting out spooky objects and ordering numbers, making repeated patterns with scary objects, creating their own potions, carving pumpkins, collaging bats and pumpkins, role playing in the witches kitchen and even using our phonics to sound out spooky words. We have been talking about different family traditions and discussed how different families celebrate in a range of ways. The children have had a fantastic time. Have a look at our wonderful learning.
Date: 31st Oct 2022 @ 6:22pm
Today, we began the start of our new half term by enjoying a DT day!
Firstly, we looked at existing products to explore the different mechanisms and moving parts in a range of picture books. We talked about how the moving part moves, how it works and what effect it has.
We then began to make two prototypes, a lever and a slider. We linked each mechanism to a story to create a moving picture for each. We all talked through the safety points and watched our teachers make an example, reading through the instructions together and spotting where they went wrong! We then each had a turn to follow the instructions, read them carefully and make our two prototypes.
We verbally evaluated our desgins, talking about what had gone well and what we could improve next time.
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 2:51pm
Nursery have been reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" By Michael Rosen and have been having such a good time! The story has a repetitive text which is great for encouraging children to join in with stories. From the story we have had so many wonderful experiences including adding music to the story, making binoculars, making bears and making some delicious biscuits. To finish of the week we even went on our very own Bear Hunt and found the bear hiding in the woods with a delicious treat for us.
If you would like to share the story with your child here is a link to the author reading the story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iou5LV9dRP0
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 7:34pm
This week Year 1 have been reading the story 'Funnybones.' We have focused on sentence structure by reading and ordering mixed up sentences. We re-read each sentence to ensure it made sense and had capital letters and full stops in the correct places. We have also been writing our own sentences about characters in the story. In our provision we have also completed lots of independent writing and reading tasks relating to the story.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 12:04pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Owl Babies'. They have been enjoying lots of different owl based activities including painting owls, counting owl feathesr and matching them to the correct quantity, drawing the characters and labeling with the sounds with the correct sounds and retelling the story using the props at the story telling table. What a busy week we have had!
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:29am
In Year 4, something we all need to work on is spotting simple errors in our writing. Today, we did some activities to practise spotting errors such as missing full stops, missing capital letters and simple spellings errors.
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:29pm
Nursery had a special visitor from the local Library who came to read us a story and sing some songs and rhymes with us. We heard a lovely autumn story and learnt some new autumn rhymes.
Nursery find a Dragon in their Book!
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 10:33pm
Nursery enjoyed a super book by Tom Fletcher called "There's a Dragon in your Book". This is super interactive story where the children try to help a baby dragon put out the fire in the book. From the story the chidlren have interacted with a dragon small world and made up stories, developed their maths skills by feeding dragons the correct number of gems and developed their finger muscles by trying to balance dragon eggs on golf tees!
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 10:29am
In Reading into Writing, we have started learning about diaries. Today we started our immersion into reading and read a variety of WAGOLLs. We idenitfied the main points of the texts and began to idenitfy the features that linked in the texts. We did this in pairs and then joined to make a four and share our findings.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:05pm
Nursery have enjoyed reading "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell. The story is all about three baby owls who worry that their mummy won't come back when she flies off to hunt for some food. Of course everything is ok and their Mummy comes back! The children have been doing lots of owl based activites in continuous provision including making playdough owl babies, making owls at the craft table, building nests for the owls, using tweezers to pull worms out of the mud and retelling the story using our beautiful Owl Babies tuff tray. As well as all of this, we have also been practicing counting to 3 by putting 3 owls on a branch.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:28am
In Year 6 we have finished our first Reading into Writing journey - explanatory texts. We followed all the stages of the journey:
- Cold write
- Looking at a WAGOLL for features
- Immersion in Reading
- GPS linked to the genre
- Teacher model/Shared write
- Improving a WABOLL
- Plan
- Draft
- Edit
- Hot write
We produced some excellent writing for our first piece in Year 6. Our end piece of writing was to explain how to use a 'Teacher Pleaser' machine. We think our teachers would be very happy if they had a machine like the ones we invented!!
Year 4 - Fantasy setting descriptions
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:42am
This week, we have started our next writing journey. For the first few days, we will be immersing ourselves in examples of fantasy setting descriptions. The children have been brilliant at picturing what the setting descriptions have been describing.
Nursery Meet The Colour Monster
Date: 23rd Sep 2022 @ 2:02pm
Nursery have been enjoying the story "The Colour Monster" this week. The story is a great way for children to explore all the different emotions they might feel including happy, sad, frightened and angry. We talked about when we might feel certain feelings and what we can do to make us feel better. Have a look at the photos below to see if you can spot the different emotions!
Nursery Become Archaeologists!
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 2:37pm
After reading "Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs go to School" nursery immersed themselves in all things dinosaur! We looked for dinosaur bones and fossils and one day we even found some dinosaur eggs! We waited patiently for the babies to hatch and then had great fun making up stories about the dinosaurs together. The children also learnt about shapes by creating shape dinosaurs and worked together to paint some big dinosaurs!
Year 3- Choral speaking champions!
Date: 12th Jul 2022 @ 6:00pm
Across the school children have been learning a range of poems to perform in our choral speaking competition. Year Three have spent the last few weeks rehearsing and preparing our poem 'Don't Quit' by Edgar Albert Guest. We chose this poem because of it's link to growth mindset, by sending the message that we mustn't give up when things seem challenging.
Year Three did an amazing performance today which made us become KS2 choral speaking champions!
Nursery What The Ladybird Heard At The Seaside
Date: 29th Jun 2022 @ 2:41pm
We have been reading the story "What The Ladybird Heard At The Seaside" By Julia Donaldson and have created lots of learning opportunites based on the story. We have been practsing our scissor skills by cutting the mermaids hair - it was very tough and sticky just like in the story! We have been counting spots on to ladybirds and subisiting how many spots we can see and learring all about the letter L by making ladybirds out of the letter. We have created some beautfiul transient art pictures of mermaids and made some spinning ladybirds to hang from the ceiling.
Date: 16th Jun 2022 @ 5:04pm
This week we have been reading the story "Billy's Bucket" By Kes Gray all about a little boy who wants a bucket for his birthday. It's no ordinary bucket though, Billy's bucket is special as he can see lots of sea creatures when he looks inside! The chidlren were brilliant at recalling parts of the story and by the end of the week they were telling the story without the book. The activities in continous provison were all based around the story and included matching numerals to the correct bucket, theading tentacles on to jelly fish, designing a bucket and creating some transient art to show what they would see in their bucket.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 11:24am
We have been reading the story "The Bumblebear" By Nadia Shireen about a little bear who loves honey so much he decides to go to Bee School! We have looked at the repeated stripy pattern of a bumble bee, made playdough bees, counted bees and found out how bees make honey. We even made our own delicious honey and yoghurt dip. We've been very busy bees!
