This half term, we will be studying poetry in English lessons ready for our poetry festival at the end of term. We all read five poems then analysed their rhyme, rhythm, language, punctuation and meaning. We also explained why the poem was our favourite, learning how to justify our answers. Which poem is you favourite and why?
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World Book Day
We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters for World Book Day. We took part in different activities and enjoyed sharing stories with our circles groups.
English Rhyming Words
In English we have been learning about rhyming words. As a class we followed the story Zog by Julia Donaldson and filled in the missing rhyming words to complete the sentences.
Reception Phonics
Reception have been doing Read Write Inc Phonics, learning sounds, words and reading books consistent with their phonic knowledge.
Emerald Class Reading Comprehension
Today in reading comprehension reception read the book’ Peace at last’. We then had to think about what noises we could hear in the morning and at night.
Speech
In English we are learning how to punctuate and set out speech correctly. We acted out a conversation between Tinkerbell and Wendy from our class novel ‘Peter Pan’ and then wrote up the conversation using inverted commas. We are definitely improving at writing speech.
Reading Club
The librarians are holding a reading club every Wednesday lunchtime this term for anyone interested in reading. You can read your own book, read to a librarian or have a librarian read a book to you. Nearly the whole school signed up to book club so the librarians will be choosing groups each week so everyone has a turn. Thank you librarians!
Mind Maps inspired by Peter Pan
Year 4, 5 and 6 are studying Peer Pan by J.M. Barrie and were intrigued by Mrs Darling exploring her children’s minds. Using text, they created a representation of the own minds. They are very interesting.
Ask the Expert
The first Friday of every half term is ‘Ask the Expert’ in Diamond Class. We all brought interesting items in and discussed them practicing our presentation and questioning and answering skills. We voted the adoption of cats as the best ‘Ask the Expert’ item this term as it follows our school values!
