Willows have really enjoyed World Book Day in and have been taking part in lots of activities. We took part in a LIVE lesson all about rhyming words and how we can use them in our poetry writing. We loved performing a poem as a class, which told the story of Little Red Riding Hood and including actions which helped us remember the lines of the poem. We wrote book reviews and discussed why Read more
This week Year 5 have been celebrating World Book day. We have dressed up as Book characters, took part in a live lesson, wrote book reviews, designed a new book cover for a book we have enjoyed, made book marks, completed mindful colouring of some inspiring quotes from books, and studied, learnt and performed the poem ‘Malfeasance’. The children looked fantastic in their costumes and did really well in their poetry performance.
This week in Music, Miss Taylor taught the children some songs in French. We sang head, shoulders, knees and toes and Frere Jacques in French and English. We then listened to the elephant and aquarium songs from the Carnival of The Animals written by French musician Camille Saint-Saëns. We stomped to the beat of the elephant song and moved fish along to the aquarium song. We listened to how the songs were different and how Read more
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. We all dressed up in fantastic costumes to celebrate our favourite characters. We read lots of stories and talked about why we love having stories read to us. A big well done to Bobby who won the prize for best costume in Snowdrops!
Bonjour! This week we have been getting letters from Bertie Bear who has gone on holiday to France. We have looked at different French landmarks and have used lots of different adjectives to describe them. We have also had a go at saying different French words including French foods. On Tuesday we had Crepe Day and tried different pancake toppings, we loved the syrup! We also loved trying the French Croissants. In the continuous provision Read more
Thank you to all the parents who donated to charity for year 3’s random act of kindness. If you still want to contribute please bring donations in by Friday 4th March
We had lots of fun for World Book Day – everyone made lots of effort dressing up and looked fantastic. We have been trying to complete as many of the ‘25 ways to celebrate World Book Day’ challenges. These are some of the different activities we have completed: We drew a picture of the character we dressed up as and explained why we dressed up as this character. An acrostic poem on Reading We have Read more
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Year 6 looked at learning, writing and performing a range of poems to celebrate reading. We also designed front covers for the class novels which have inspired our reading and writing this year. All of our activities have helped contribute towards meeting as many of the ’25 ways to celebrate World Book Day’ challenges as possible.
Today we have all celebrated World Book Day. Everyone has dresses up as a book character and we all look fantastic! We have been very busy today. We have read lots of different stories, discussed why we enjoy reading, shared our favourite books and discussed why, made a world book day selfie, created our very own book cover and made character puppets. When we had finished making our character puppets, we told our own stories Read more
Today we took part in a live lesson listening to famous authors and illustrators discuss their work. We have created some amazing poems about reading using metaphors. We really enjoyed playing a metaphor game where we hunted for matching pairs in class. This afternoon we read an extract from the book ‘ The worst class in the world’ and we watched a clip where the Author Joanna Nadin and the illustrator Rikin Parekh discussed where Read more