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!
We have been reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in Elm class. We have enjoyed sharing ideas and predictions about the story and interpreting how the characters feel and what they might be thinking. We have just finished reading Chapter Five. We think the Queen might really be Read more…
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.
We started our topic off by reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert in Kaden’s Garden. It was such a wonderful spot to read this book. As we looked up, there were leaves falling all around us. Leaf Man even landed on Mrs Nuttall – she was very surprised! After reading Read more…
As our WW2 topic drew to a close, the children celebrated the end of the war in style. After looking at some of the most important and influential speeches in history, from the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King, Year 6 wrote their own VE speeches and Read more…
On Friday, Year 4 Hawthorn, had a fantastic time at the library. We were so excited to pick books to take back to school. Once back at school, we enjoyed sitting in our new reading corner and reading our new books. During English lessons, we have been writing letters to Read more…