Category Archives: Reading

Year 1 – English – Making Gingerbread Men

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Last week Year 1 enjoyed making Gingerbread Men in the kitchen. As part of our English we are learning about how to read and write instructions. The children followed a set of instructions in order to make their biscuits. We focused on the verbs like empty, mix, roll, knead, cut and decorate and now we will continue to focus on other features of instructions like bullet points, numbered instructions and pictures so that we can eventually write our own.

The children enjoyed their baking experience and we were lucky because non of the Gingerbread men ran away!

Word Wizard!

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Year 5 have been working really hard this year using Reading Plus and we have our first official Word Wizard! Congratulations to Rayyan for being the first person to read 50,000 words – WOW! What an achievement! We wonder who the next Word Wizard will be…

Year 1 – English – Hook – Non-fiction book – Giraffes

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In English, Year 1 are going to start looking at non-fiction texts. Last week we recieved a letter from an animal that led us on a hunt around school. The animal left us facts about themselves at different points so thet we could try to disciver which animal it was and it also led us on a hunt around the different types of trees we have around Bowker Vale. Something that we had recently discovered in our Science lessons about plants where we went round identifying the leaves on trees. When we reach our final clue we ALL knew which animal it was and it led us to find George and Sparkle our class GIRAFFES and a new non-fiction book all about giraffes. In English we are going to explore the book and write our own non-fiction text about giraffes.

No Pen Day in 3A!

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3A had a brilliant morning learning how to read aloud effectively! They practised reading clearly, with feeling and expression using gestures and actions.

They read a play script from the story of Oliver Twist.

Amazing teamwork 3A and fabulous expressive reading!

In our Maths lesson 3A learned about capacity. They used containers of different sizes and carefully poured out different amounts of coloured water reading the scale on the side of the containers.

Amazingly very little water was spilled. The person to spill the most water was Miss Jones!

Well done 3A!

World Book Day – 1S

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The children in year 1 loved being part of the World Book Day celebrations. They enjoyed being in their costumes and bringing in their favourite books. They took part in a library session and enjoyed sharing lots of books with each other. They also enjoyed making shooting stars based on the book ‘Look Up’ and they met The Everywhere Bear for the first time.
The Everywhere Bear is our class bear and story and the children are going to be taking it in turns to take him home to give him lots of lovely experiences!