Year 1 have had a problem with magic spiders. We wrote a class set of instructions – How to Catch a Spider. Last night we set a trap, it didn’t work! Today will write our own instructions to try catch the pesky spiders! #stfinbarsenglish
This week, Year 1 have been using the prefix un- to change the meaning of words. This has been the focus for our sentence accuracy, the children have done a great job! #stfinbarsenglish @LiteracyCounts1 @StFinbarsSch @JanJconley
Today we continued to develop our vocabulary by using a thesaurus to find synonyms
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We’re working so hard to develop our vocabulary knowledge ? today we have used dictionaries to discover the meaning of words
Over the last couple of days we have been enjoying our poetry and spending time reading our favourite poems! #nationalpoetryday #nationalliteracytrust
Today, Sunflower class found some interesting items in our classroom. Inside there was a new book, Little Red. We looked at the first page illustrations and discussed it, asking questions and making predictions. We then acted out how Little Red would have felt walking through the woods alone.
Today, we brought some of the images of Shackleton Journey to life through conscience alley and freeze frames.
We used illustrations from our class reader Shackleton Journey written by William Grill. We had a lot of fun adding our own conversations, thoughts and ideas to these images.
Year 6 loved their No pen day experience, with lots of practical and computer based activities. From creating our plans for English on our chrome books to using multi-link cubes in maths to explore volume. It is to be continued after SATs.
Year 1 have really enjoyed practising reading some alien words this week by playing a really cool game!
Today, we used drama to retell the story of The Night Gardener. Some of us were trees, another person was William and some of us were people from Grimlock Lane. This will help us write lovely story setting descriptions.
In English, we did some Drama to help us remember the story we are learning about. Year 5 have read ‘Henry’s Freedom Box’ and today they dramatised the story of him escaping in the box. This is going to help them later on, when they write an autobiography on Henry.
Someone in our class decided to dress up as the Night Gardener. I wonder who it is? He did a great job sneaking around without anyone seeing him cutting the trees!
We received a very interesting package today, we have been discussing where it came from and even questioned the postman!
We have come into class this morning and found a very interesting picture on our board. We then tried to independently write some words and sentences.
The children in Reception are always working on their fine motor skills. This helps them to develop their writing skills by making their hands stronger.
During English today we were looking at writing in the report style for a newspaper. Before we completed the writing activity we worked in groups to act out and freeze in place to represent what was happening in the news report we had read.
