Character Inference
Oak Class had great fun being detectives this lesson! After learning more about who they may encounter in the Land of Oz, the children had to work out which emotion belonged to which character based on the clues in the text!
Willow’s Independent Writing and Performing!
Well done to Willow for your beautiful published writing so far! This week, we practiced our oracy skills when performing our very own poem.
Making predictions!
Oak Class began the half term by making predictions about their new book! The children were given images of mystery items from the text and had to consider who the items might be used by and what for. The classroom was fizzing with excitement for our new unit!
Anne Frank Diaries
In English, Oak Class had the best time publishing their writing. We created our very own diaries, inspired by Anne Frank and wrote up our edited writing from Anne’s perspective! The children included tag questions to convey a tone of uncertainty (of Anne’s move to the secret annexe) along…
Pumpkin Soup
We linked our work in English and Design Technology to help Mrs Wardale make pumpkin soup. We chopped the vegetables and did some taste tests! Yum!
Year 1 Little Red Riding Hood
We have started off the term looking at Traditional Tales. Year 1 have been working on constructing sentences with capital letters and full stops.
Some fantastic independent work this week!
Library Bus
Our first visit of the year to the Library Bus!
We can change our books every two weeks and had great fun choosing today.
Rock up and Read
Reading for pleasure and sharing books is such an important part of our learning journey. It was fantastic to have so many parents join us for our first session of Rock up and Read of the year. Thank you!
The Sound Collector poetry
Today a thief came to Mary Howard to steal all our sounds!
We created our own poems using lots of sound descriptions. Next week we will put our ideas together to create and perform a whole class poem!
Vocabulary in Context
In English, Class Three began reading their new text, ‘On the Origin of Species’. The children used their dictionary skills to search for the correct definition for the context in question before using their new words to compose sentences and offering synonyms that share the same meaning.…
The Shadow Cage
Class Three began reading their new text, The Shadow Cage. The children made predictions about the text using clues from the front cover. We then used paired reading and explored the use of question sentences (our SPAG focus) as a tool to create suspense within a narrative, within several short…
Wanted: The Highwayman!
In English this week, Class Three had lots of fun writing character descriptions of the Highwayman in the form of a wanted poster! The children’s SPAG focus this week has been adverbial phrases, we planned and wrote a range of sentences using adverbials in different positions. The children then…