We have had a lot of fun in Rowan celebrating World Book Day. We started of by completing social reading (reading in groups)and discussing why we enjoyed that book, what aspect of it was good and what we also was not so keen on. Children choose from the ‘Little People Read more…
We had lots of fun today celebrating World Book Day today in year 3 Birch! We discussed our favourite stories and wrote some book reviews on books we like to read. We also shared stories of people we find to be inspirational. We then participated in a live lesson with Read more…
Over the half term, Miss Horrocks set us a reading challenge: To build a reading den or nook to read your favourite stories in. Thank you so much to everybody who completed the challenge, you have all done a fantastic job, your dens and nooks look so comfy and we Read more…
Children loved looking for fiction and non-fiction books again. They remembered some of the features from last week.
Children loved exploring the library today. They learnt about fiction and non-fiction books and went to go and find these types of books. We found lots of information in the non-fiction books. We also looked into the features that make a non-fiction book (contents pages, labels, photographs etc)
Some of our Year 2 children have completed the phonics programme and are now taking part in daily Guided Reading sessions. Throughout the week, the children work in small groups to answer verbal questions and complete independent task based on a book. They make predictions, show skills in skimming and Read more…
This week we have been reading the book ‘Supertato’. The evil pea has been causing havoc in our classroom, trapping vegetables and stealing things! We created super veggies to save the day. The children chose their resources carefully, creating capes and different body parts for their superheroes.
This week when we arrived at school we found fruit and vegetables trapped by the evil pea! He’d been in our classroom during the night causing mayhem! First, we all had to work together to free the fruit and vegetables and then we discussed what we should do next. We Read more…
This week we have been reading the story Room on the Broom. In the story, the witch is really good at making magic potions so we have been trying to make our own potions. We have been practising making our own and then we have worked altogether to make one. Read more…
This week we have been learning about the story Zog. We have discussed the characters in the story, predicted what we think might happen next and thought about how Zog never gives up and always tries his hardest. Today, we have been to dragon school. We have designed and made Read more…