Exploring a new text in MI

Today MI was introduced to a new text in our reading lesson. We used an image to think about what we notice, what the image reminded us of, what we would like to know and then we thought about what may happen in the text. There was some great and interesting conversations which challenged our thought process. We then used a variety of strategies to read the text, thinking about the pace of our reading but ensuring we were fluent. As we read, we thought about some of the vocabulary. We used a range of strategies to unpick some of the more challenging language and applied definitions to our own text. This then helped us with our next activity. We worked in mini crews to build a vocabulary jigsaw where we had to match different words to their definition. A great job by all 🙂

Vocabulary Game

This morning in reading, we’ve enjoyed playing imposter.

During the game, the children had to find either the antonym or synonym that matched their word. This really got the children’s brains working as some of the words are words they may not use day to day. I was very impressed with how they completed the activity because they moved around sensibly, used great communication until they found their matching word and we found the imposter (word without a match).

Crew MI read with Crew Marsh

Because it is story telling week, Crew MI spent some time with Crew Marsh and what a lovely afternoon this was. So many smiling faces and looks of pure enjoyment. The children in Crew Marsh shared their new story books with the children in MI. Crew MI absolutely loved reading to the Y1 children, they tried really hard to use their expressive voices to make sure they engaged the Y1 children. They looked at the front cover and blurb and tried to question the children as they read. Everyone really enjoyed the session 🙂 We are now going to arrange another meet where the Y1 children get to read their own book to the Y6 children. We are all really excited for this 🙂 Well done everyone.

Storytelling fun in Crew Godley

This week we have been sharing our favourite stories, we really enjoyed Handa’s Surprise yesterday so today we explored the fruits in the story. Can you guess what we tasted…… 🥑it had very mixed opinions! Michael had the happiest face however Dominic showed us his disappointment!

National Storytelling week

We have kicked off Storytelling week by spending time reading our library book to a partner.

We used this as an opportunity to listen to different genres as some children find it difficult to decide on the genre they like to read.

The crew enjoyed this and this is something we’ll try to do more often.