Today in Y1 we started our christmas writing by reading the christmas jollypostman. He firstly delivered a christmas card to baby bear at the three bears house, we therefore decorated our own card for baby bear and then delivered it to their house. We noticed Mummy bear decorating a christmas tree and enjoyed some warm, delicious porridge.
During book talk, we were given some clues to infer from. We had a silent conversation to explore what we thought about the clues given. Clue number one was a photo of a clip board with the writing ‘Loteria de Navidad’. Many of us knew the word ‘Navidad’ meant ‘Christmas’ in Spanish but we are unsure how this links with the other photo clues. Tomorrow, we will find out more about the reading for this week… the children are intrigued to learn more!
This week we have started reading the poem “‘Twas the night before Christmas”. The children have really enjoyed looking deeper into this poem and text marking the important information. We have picked out words and phrases that we didn’t understand, for example “visions of sugarplums danced in their head” and “the moon on the breast of the new fallen snow”. We are excited to read the rest of the poem.
In our experience lesson we each made a mouse so we could put it in our shoe for their new house just like in the story The Smartest Giant in town. We loved reading this book again and found it funny that George the giant had to hop away because he has given one of his shoes.
Today we started our Christmas writing by watching the story of The Jolly Postman. Henry realised straight away that in the book the postman visited famous characters from other traditional tales. We then talked about what kinds of things the postman would deliver to your house at Christmas time including gifts and cards. In the Jolly Christmas Postman the first house he visits is the Three Bears so we made Christmas cards for Baby Bear.
Today we started out a Christmas writing, The Jolly Postman’s Christmas 🎅 we discovered his first port of call was The Three Bears house where he delivered a card to Baby Bear. To immerse ourselves into the text we made our own cards to deliver to baby bear.
In today’s Book Talk session, we explored the front cover of our new text to allow us to fully immerse into the text and understand right from the front cover what we might expect from the book. We then read the synopsis that had been written which gave us a little more information and got us really questioning what the text might be about. We also explored some of the pictures from the text as an extra stimulus. We then tried to answer the following questions: What does it remind us of? What do we think it will be about or is going to happen? What do we wonder? And what do we notice? We recorded our responses during a ‘Silent Conversation’ and then shared our comments as a crew.
We ended the session by discussing how important it is to really look at the front cover, picture clues and read the synopsis before selecting a book. This was especially important for this text because lots of our initial responses were that the front cover looked ‘old’, ‘boring’, ‘old fashioned’ and ‘plain’. However, after reading the synopsis and seeing some images from the text lots of us changed our opinion of the text and are now excited to look at it more next lesson!
Today we continued to read The Smartest Giant in Town. The next character George meets is a family of mice whose house has burned down. For our experience lesson we made mice. They were very cute!
In today’s experience lesson we each made our own tin foil boat to see if it floated on water. We balanced coins in the boat to make it even harder. After that, we chotted all of our ideas to think about what actions George did, what he could see and then how he might of felt after giving his shirt to the goat to use as a sail on his boat.
We love singing the song for each plot point.
Today was an experience day for our book The Smartest Giant in Town. In the story George met a goat with a problem. The goat had lost the sail on his boat and he was stuck. We made our own paper boat using our origami skills and discussed how the sail on a boat moves using wind.
