This week we have read the story Owl Babies. The children used different materials to create their own owl picture. It was lots of fun and everyone was really creative! We have spoken about how an owl would feel and discussed words to describe owls. The children chose soft materials Read more…
In English, we are writing a narrative story about ‘The Present’. We have practised and learnt many new writing skills. This morning we have been writing some complex sentences. We started with a main clause and added subordinate clauses to it, thinking about our punctuation and use of verb tenses. Read more…
Year 5 Pine have had a fantastic start to year 5. They have all settled in well. In our English lessons, we have been writing about a mysterious present. This week we found out that the present was a puppy. In one of our lessons, Mrs Edyvean’s dog (Roxy) visited Read more…
We have had a fantastic first day. During English lessons this term we will be looking at the BFG by Roald Dahl. Today we started to read the story, made dream catchers, drew pictures of the BFG and we wrote synonyms for some of the BFG’s ‘muddled up’ words.
This week we have been learning all about bees, we started by reading the story ‘The Bumble Bear’. We answered lots of questions about the bumble bear and talked with our partners about our favourite part of the story. During continuous provision we have been creating our own bees Read more…
This half term we are looking at different types of animals and insects. When we arrived to school on Tuesday we had some caterpillars in our classroom. 🐛 We talked about the caterpillars and discussed what they might need to survive. After reading the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’, we knew that a caterpillar Read more…
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’, we talked about who made the gingerbread man and who ran after him. We noticed that the fox tricked the gingerbread man into jumping onto his nose and gobbled him up. We used adjectives to describe the fox and Read more…
This week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man in our literacy lessons. We have learnt how to retell the story and we have been designing our own gingerbread person. The children used coloured icing pens to help with their fine motor skills and chose the decorations carefully. They had Read more…
This week we have been reading the story ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ and answered lots of questions. We talked to our partners about how Goldilocks was feeling when she woke up to the bears and how the bears were feeling when they saw Goldilocks in their house. We tried our Read more…
For our new text for English, we have been looking at Little Red Riding hood. This week we have been retelling the story in our own words. We did a fantastic job using openers, conjunctions, adjectives and adverbs. We have now planned our own version of this story and we Read more…