English Chatter
World Book Day 📚
We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day📚 We did lots of fun activities, we read with our reading buddies and we even read a story in the den we built as a team.
We all made our book mark and read our favourite story the colour monster, as for World Book Day we focused on colours. We know now how to mix different colours to make new colours!
Problem Penguin
We are a couple of weeks into our half term, and we have now sequenced our Problem Penguin! Only the Elephant Ending to go and then we will have yet another story under our belts 📕
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Linking letters to sounds
We have been learning pictures sounds for a while, and now we are learning how to link those pictures to letters. The children were so excited when they realised that letter sounds are all around us! Some children found some sounds in our fine motor activity!
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Year 5 – Exploring and responding to clues from the text
We began our new narrative in English today by immersing ourselves into the narrative, identifying what the clues told us and forming links between the objects and images. Then we made a prediction.
English- hook
Today we looked at the different items that introduce our new story. We then wrote a prediction about what we think our story is about using the items.
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Class 6MR
Publishing our writing. We wrote a balanced argument about the reintroduction of wolves into the U.K.
Year 3 – English
This week we enjoyed exploring the clues to predict what our next text is about.
Year 2 English
This week we started reading The King Who Banned the Dark. We used drama to persuade the king that banning the dark world not be good.
The Journey
The first lesson of our new English unit was all about making predictions. The children enjoyed lots of discussion as we collected our ideas, making links to between objects.
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Y2 English
Using our ideas for and against banning the dark, we completed a conscience alley activity.
Y2 English
2D used role play to come up with ideas about why the dark shouldn’t be banned- the King didn’t always agree with his advisors!
How to catch a wolf🐺
This week in literacy we have been following instruction on how to catch a wolf! We got everything we needed and set up our own trap. We hope we catch a wolf. 🐺
Dictionary work
4D have been using their dictionary skills to help them understand vocabulary in English.
Year 5 star readers
We loved our recent National literacy book event and sadly forgot to post about it…
We also have some star readers of our own in 5M!
All about out half term ☀️
We have done some independent writing this week! We have written all about our half term and all the fun we had. 😁
Author Visit
Y6 enjoyed finding out about Luke Temple’s books in our author visit today!
KS2 Author visit – Luke Temple
Luke shared his fantastic adventure stories with us this morning. The main character is called Felix Dashwood and Luke helped us to bring the characters to life and explore the problems that they come across.
We had a chance to ask Luke some great questions and see how the illustrator brings his characters to life too!
Signed books about Felix’s adventures and the characters she meets on her way, will be on sale in school tomorrow!
Author Visit
Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?
The Storm Whale 🐋
Reception have been enjoying our English book The Storm Whale 🐋! We have been writing lots of sentences with the help of our story friends. Today Wise Owl helped us to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Meeting an author!
Some of us met the author Luke Temple and got our book signed.
We were also excited to find his stories in our library for us to choose for reading for pleasure.
Year One Writing
Super proud of Year One and their publishing skills. Amazing diary entries all about Erin wanting to save Black Rock!
Wolf Hunt – Year One
There’s a wolf on the loose. Have you seen a wolf? Eyewitness account from Mr Boyd and evidence of scratch marks, a red cloak and a bin bag.
Independent Writing✍️
This week we have been working on our independent writing. We have had lots of fun writing this week. We have wrote all about our creations, our amazing pictures and we have even wrote about our phonics friend Fred. We are super writers !
Reading for pleasure
Every Thursday, we bring our book bags into school and choose a new book to share with our family ❤️
English – A balanced argument
Our new writing focus is to write a balanced argument, where two sides of a debate are discussed in detail.
This morning, we researched gorillas and the positives and negatives of keeping them in captivity or the wild.
Then we attempted our first debate to gather ideas for our writing.
Ready Steady Write
Octopus Opening helps us to plan our writing. Using the planning circle we planned our very own opening to our story.
Author Zoom with Matt Goodfellow
We have really enjoyed reading Matt’s book- The Final Year. He tells the story through poetry and it was brilliant to see him talking about the book on our author zoom!
Phonics
We played a great game this morning – we looked t a picture and had to listen to the sound we could hear at the beginning of the word, then we had to put the picture on top of the letter it begins with! It was tricky, but we did it so well!
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Ready Steady Read Together!
5M enjoyed performing some of their favourite Stanzas in this week’s poems.
Year One
Year One have enjoyed the return to school and seeing all of their friends again. They have been sharing their summer news, taking turns when playing, practising counting skills and creating self portraits!
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Year 2 English
We came in today to find clues all about our new mystery book. We had to guess what our story was about and make predictions.
Kenning Poem
Today in English, 3M wrote a kenning poem about the Iron Man. Children were then given the opportunity to perform their poem to the class.
Ready Steady Write – Freeze frames!
Today we further explored the scenes in our text to give us a better sense of the atmosphere and how our character was feeling at that moment – gathering ideas for our final piece of writing.
Newspaper Reports
Today we’ve started looking at newspaper reports in our English. We enjoyed reading exploring ‘First News’.
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Phonics
Reception have been working hard on their phonics! This week they have been helping Fred 🐸 to blend CVC words and learn their first 10 sounds.
English
Reception had a visitor today! Build up Bear came to help us plan our own version of The Something. We have enjoyed reading The Something for English and can’t wait to write our very own story!
Alex Wharton Author Zoom
Year 3 enjoyed listening to some of Alex Wharton’s poetry today while also finding out more about how to write poetry!
We are Reporters…
This week we have been sharing our news reports about marine mammals found around Liverpool.
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Making marks in foam
Sorry about the mess…we were too busy building our muscles and making different marks in the foam!
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English Writing
Reception have worked hard on their stories inspired by The Something by Rebecca Cob. Today Reception finished writing their story with the help of Elephant Ending!
Editing buddies in year 5
5H have been developing their editing skills today, working towards writing a formal English. They read their work to a partner and supported each other to improve their writing.
Poetry
This week in Ready Steady Read, we have been exploring poems by Joshua Seigal. We have been discussing the themes of some of his poems and answering comprehension questions about them. Finally, we were given the opportunity to perform our favourite poem from the week.
