Today Willows went out into the school grounds and chose a leaf from the ground. They brought it back inside and used their adjectives to describe how the leaf looked, felt and sounded when we moved it. We got lots of adjectives such as ‘crunchy’, ‘green’ and ‘scaly’. We Read more…
This half term Maple are learning about ‘Rivers & Mountains’. We immersed ourselves in the topic by listening to the sounds a river makes and watching clips of majestic mountains. The children thought about what they might hear, see and touch if they were there. They imagined what it would Read more…
Can you guess from the pictures of our classroom, which book Year 3 Birch is reading this half term? We are thoroughly enjoying reading this book in our daily class reading time. Well done to all the children who won a ‘Wonka’s Golden Ticket’ for reading every night this week. Read more…
Reception had a surprise this morning. They found out that every Friday morning someone special was going to come into class and read us a story. We were very excited to see Esme’s mum come into class this morning to read to us. She brought a book with her that Read more…
This morning we had a special visitor in our class. We were very surprised to see Alex’s mum who had come to read us a very funny story called ‘I need a wee!” We really enjoyed the story and we read it again throughout the day. Thank you Alex’s mum!
We started our new book this week ‘On the way home’. To begin we made predictions about what the story might be about by looking at the picture on the front cover and the title. We had lots of great ideas. We then read the blurb to give us another Read more…
This week a lending library in Reception has been introduced. We had lots of children come into school to choose a book with a parent or an adult. Thank you to everyone for taking part and we hope you have enjoyed reading your book! The lending library will be open Read more…
The children came into school this morning and prepared for a busy day ahead by quietly reading. The classroom atmosphere was calm and relaxed. There was some beautiful examples of concentration from the children and after reading the children were set up ready for the day!
This half term, we have started our new topic: Frozen Kingdom. We will be studying the Arctic and Antarctica and have begun our new book, The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club. We began by making predictions based on the cover alone, before moving on to write our own blurb about and Read more…
Today we visited the library again. We loved being able to look at all of the different books and spent a long time reading them carefully with our friends.