Blog by Tag: English

We all enjoyed World Book Day. The costumes were fantastic and we enjoyed all the book activities throughout the day. As soon as the bell rung, we would read our books. We also had a fun World Book Day character quiz. We read and enjoyed lots of stories throughout the day.

Here we are celebrating World Book Day.  Look at our fabulous costumes!!  We did a character quiz on the yard this morning and have been very busy making bookmarks this afternoon.  We also wrote our own version of Little Red Riding Hood after discovering Mrs Aylott was yesterday’s masked reader.…

We shared lots of books  in class today and talked to each other about the characters we were dressed as.

We had to hunt around the playground finding phonic sounds. Every time we saw one we read it and shouted it out. We all enjoyed our Phonic Hunt.

Remembering to use full stops to finish our sentences can be tough so today's challenge was to carefully read a passage about wolves and to show where the missing full stops should be using blue tack.  It took a few attempts to get this right as some of the sentences were tricky.

We looked at a set of instructions and followed them to make a Strawberry and Banana smoothie for Mrs Aylott. Firstly, we got all the ingredients and equipment together.

We carefully read the instructions step by step; noticing the bossy verb at the start of each instruction. 

Today we researched wolves in a range of different texts.  We also had hot chocolate and biscuits.  It was just like being at a reading cafe.
 

On Thursday, Year 6 joined in a massive literacy lesson with over 3000 other children! Pie Corbett was the host and taught the lesson. He is a very famous poet and author who has written over 250 books.

We played lots of fun word games and wrote a lot of descriptive sentences and some of us…

Year Two have been working very hard to improve their letter formation in class.  Here we have our first winners of the Golden Pencil Award!  Huge to congratulations to all five of you (including the child not pictured), you are now ready to start joining your letters.

We enjoyed our buddies coming to share a book with us today. We chose a book that we enjoy and they read it to us.