Blog by Tag: English

Yesterday we had lots of grown ups come and join us for our reading cafe. We heard lots of different stories and really enjoyed ourselves, thank you for joining us. 

On World book day our friends from Y3 came to take us on a book character trail. They were surprised at how many books we recognised.

What a fun day we have had! We read lots of new books in our new reading area, completed a quiz with Y4 and they also read some stories to us and drew a positive/happy Dragon by following ‘Draw with Rob’, we made happy scales and we also spoke about what makes us…

Year 4 have had a fantastic World Book Day today! They loved doing a book character quiz around school working with Reception children. They also created some fantastic drawings of Dave the Brave and a knight, as well as footsteps featuring our favourite books. Our ‘World Cup of Picture Books’…

What a great day we have had! We read lots of new books, adapted a traditional tale, played a character game, completed a quiz with Y1 and drew a knight by following ‘Draw with Rob’. Our costumes were fantastic too! 

As part of our World Book Day Week we invited parents into our classroom to read some books to us.
Thank you to all the parents who came and read to us. The children loved reading lots of books!

We worked in small groups to choose a scene out of ‘The Highwayman’ poem. Then we decided which character we each were and freeze framed the scene.

We are reading Stone Age Boy and today we acted out some of the scenes. As you see, we had lots of fun!!

Our class novel is called ‘Stormbreaker’ by Anthony Horowitz.  Today, we read a chapter where the main character is asked to become a spy. We discussed all the pros and cons that he would face making his decision. We then took part in a ‘conscience alley’. The children had to whisper reasons for…

This afternoon, we walked around Scotforth so that we can make maps and write a guide book. 
 

We used our imaginations to come up with our own Traction Man adventure.

In English we have been enjoying the traditional story - The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Today we imagined the scene in the town when the rats first arrived!