In reading yesterday, we focused on our reading fluency and reading with expression. Miss Shields did an echo read to model how to read with expression then the children worked in small groups to work on a small section together. They had some time to practice before performing to the rest of the class. I was very impressed with how quickly they picked it up.
Category : Curriculum
We are Scientists
Reading Unseen Text.
In our reading lesson today, we tackled reading an unseen text and used some important reading strategies ( skimming and scanning, highlighting key information, vocabulary and context clues, making inferences and summarising what we have read ), to help us answer the questions.
Subordinate Conjunctions
In writing on Friday, we learned about subordinate conjunctions and how they add further information to the main clause. We learned I SAW A WABUB to help us remember the subordinate conjunctions. Then we worked in pairs to experiment with the position of the subordinate clause. We realised that the subordinate clause can either be at the start or end of the sentence. However, if it is at the start of the sentence, we must remember to use a comma to separate the main clause and the subordinate clause.
Bob Marley is 80!
On Friday, we celebrated the birthday of Bob Marley by singing a melody of his songs. What a wonderful way to start the day. It was lovely to see the children singing along and some of them starting to move with the music.
Be the teacher
In reading this week, the children had the opportunity to be the teacher. They were provided with some inference questions that had been answered. They worked in pairs to evaluate which questions or questions they thought had been answered well. Children were able to start pulling out that they preferred a particular answer because it give an explanation that linked to the question. They could see that in other answers it either didn’t provide enough information or it was a lot of writing but didn’t actually answer the question.
Multiples of 50
In magic maths this week, we have been practising counting in multiples of 50. In small groups, we ordered the number and then practised reading them.
Grouping Animals
Music in MI
We love our music lessons with Miss McGlone 🙂
Unpicking questions in MI
After our flash cards and vocabulary check, we started to think more about inference. We started with a picture to activate our minds then we unpicked some of the written comprehension questions we completed on Friday. We really explored the questions thinking about our answers and if we had answered the questions accurately. We worked well in mini crews when unpicking the question and finding evidence in the text we had read.
