Oracy in Action: Hot Seating
Today, Class One took a deep dive into the world of crayons when we explored the whimsical story of The Day The Crayons Quit by Dew Daywalt, where crayons have had enough and decide to voice their frustrations.
Our oracy focussed lesson saw the children stepping into the shoes of the crayon…
Debating accepting the Roman rule or not.
We have been learning about the Celts reaction to the Roman invasion in 43AD. Using all the evidence we have gathered we then had to make a decision: Would we have accepted the Roman rule or not?
We had a very successful debate as a class, where we confidently shared our opinions using our…
Super-tastic Story Mapping
Today in English, we took a deep dive into the world of Supertato with a fun, creative twist! First, we read the story and then our brilliant minds drew a story map, illustrating the exciting adventures of the heroic Supertato and his arch-nemesis, the Evil Pea. The Reception children joined in…
Rainforest poems.
This week we have created poems about the rainforest. We have used our knowledge from our Geography topic and from reading the story ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ to help us with our ideas.
Peas-fully Evil: Unleashing Creativity in Character Descriptions!
In today’s English lesson, our young writers got to work describing the villainous Evil Pea from Supertato! Armed with adjectives and expanded noun phrases, they transformed the sneaky, little pea into a full-blown menace. From “his slimy, villainous grin” to “the mean, green chaos-creator”, the…
Authors.
We have been working as authors to create our own story books based on The Great Kapok Tree. We have been so proud of them, that they now have a place in our class book corner.
Christmas Poetry
Today we listened to a poem called ‘What’s in the Box?’ and tried to hear and spot the pattern. We also learned about the rhyming elements in the poem and worked together to read, identify and highlight the words that rhyme. After learning the repeated rhyming structure of the poem we started…
Water colour pages.
We have written our own stories based on ‘The Great Kapok tree’ by Lynne Cherry.
When publishing our books we have created water colour pages of all the wonderful plants and animals that can be found in rainforests. Our finished stories will be in our class library.
Deforestation
We have been learning about deforestation linked to the Amazon rainforest. Today we have had group debates to put forward all our arguments both for and against deforestation.
The Magic Box
We have written poems based on ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. We included sights,smells and tastes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in our boxes. We then used our oracy skills to present our poems.
Writing poetry
Year 1 and 2 have been thinking about what makes them unique to create their very own, Who am I?’ poem. We celebrated what makes us special and shared our poems with our friends. Today was our proof reading and editing session - a very important part of the writing process - and one we always…
Spelling Shed
Year 2 are enjoying learning their new spellings on Spelling Shed.