Reading in MI

5th June 2023Stacey McClare

Today we have revisited the work we started on the book ’Holes’ We recapped the story so far using a range of strategies to read the text. We thought about who the characters are, what the setting is, the genre of the text and what has happened so far. We then read the next part of the text using a read around the robin, echo read and partner reading. As we read, we noted down any vocabulary we wanted to discuss. We then thought about these words again in context and unpicked their definitions together. From here we looked at a range of questions continuing our book talk session. We linked our questions to the lenses linking about what the questions were asking us. There was some great collaborative working this morning with lots of children voicing their opinions on different parts of the text.

Reading

26th May 2023Eleanor Pashley

Today, in Crew Pashley, Brianna asked if she could read Roald Dahl’s The Witches to the crew for their after dinner transition task. It was lovely to hear her read and the whole crew were supportive of her reading out loud. They even asked her to read more! We all enjoyed it, especially me!

Carcroft Newsflash! 📰🌍🧑‍🏫

26th May 2023Sophie Elmer

This week in Crew FE we have been writing a broadcasting script about the recent devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, linked to our current Expedition, Earth Shattering Events, What happens when nature strikes? Today the children had the opportunity to perform these in front of a green screen. I was blown away with children’s fluency and expression skills as well as their ability to follow stage directions whilst reading!

Click here to view our performances!

Carcroft Newsroom!

26th May 2023Kate Thompson

Welcome to Carcroft Newsroom!

This week, children in Crew Thompson have been writing their own scripts about the recent earthquakes that happened in Turkey and Syria. Today, children had lots of fun performing these in front of the the green screen! I was really impressed with how hard the children worked and how they had lots of courage and determination to perform these. Keep up the fab work!

Click here to watch them!

Teacher Swap! 🧑‍🏫🔄

25th May 2023Sophie Elmer

This afternoon, many of our teachers had the opportunity to swap classes so that they could share some of their favourite stories with another crew! The children absolutely loved having a different teacher, listening to stories and exploring their own imagination! It was lovely to pop into crews and see the real love for reading taking place as well as children’s thirst for reading. The fact that in some crews children were wanting to read more books by particular authors because they enjoyed it so much, and that other children wanted to read the book again or finish it, was fab! Hopefully next year we can do much more of this and maybe we can get some of our grown ups from home to come in too!

Fun in the sun! ☀️

24th May 2023A Welburn

We’ve had lots of fun in the sunshine this week in Crew Welburn! We’ve made slides for dinosaurs, transported water using pipes and funnels, and even splashed our feet in our make shift paddling pools to cool off! The children are really developing their independence, curiosity and team work this week, and are working well together to explore how different things work – it is lovely to stand back and watch them forming strong friendships with each other!

The children have also been enjoying indoor provision, and are still excited by our story, Little Red Riding Hood. We spotted a wolf in school last night, so Leon decided to dress up as the Woodcutter to scare him away, and some of the boy and girls even made up a song to scare him off! We hope he doesn’t come back!

Reading Vocabulary

23rd May 2023Ruth Shields

This morning we played one of our favourite games: Round table.

Each pair has 1 whiteboard and pen between them. They are et a challenge and given 2 minutes to complete it. Sounds easy… think again. During the task the children aren’t allowed to talk to each other and in addition, they need to be using their skimming and scanning skills not only in the text but to ensure they aren’t duplicating answers.

The task today was to use 2 pages of the text to find as many verbs as they could. We have been using these games to consolidate our learning and ensure we are confident with word classes.