Today we really explored how to answer 3 mark questions around impressions. We recapped how we use APE to answer these type of questions, ensuring we use evidence from the text to support answers. We looked at a given example and unpicked the amount of marks the answer was worth linking to the impressions and evidence given. We tried hard to use the rules of critique when doing this. We then tried to give our own impressions of a character, using the text to support us.
To finish off ’Storytelling Week’ we invited Crew Godley to our classroom to share different stories and show them our favourite story books. We really enjoyed having Crew Godley read to us and we think we might make this a regular thing on a Friday!
I have been working with four wonderful Year 2’s who are working extremely hard on their speedy reading and reading for meaning. They blow me away with their enthusiasm and love of reading every time we do it!
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 🙂
Crew Robson and Crew Welburn ended National Story Telling Week by sharing stories together in Crew Welburn this morning. The Year 2 children came down to Crew Welburn with some of their favourite stories to share and read them to our foundation children. Thank you for coming Crew Robson, we really enjoyed having you!
Crew Godley shared some our favourite stories with Crew McGone today. It was so lovely to see our younger children showing kindess and respect to each other. We all demonstrated lovely listening skills 📚🥰 and we can’t wait to return next week 🥰
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 Marsh would like to give a massive thank you to one of our tutormate volunteers who has bought everyone in Crew Marsh a reading book and bookmark to take home with them.
What a lovely way to end world storytelling week!
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.
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!
