It was great seeing Crew Shields text marking this morning and highlighting the vocabulary that they were unsure of. They know how important it is to understand the vocabulary in the text as this supports their comprehension.
Category : Reading in Action
Phonics workshop follow up
Thank you to all of the parents who made it to the phonics workshop today – it was lovely to see so many of you! Here’s the video to support how to say the sounds to support your children at home. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to speak to me ☺️
Exploring our new text in reading
MI started to explore the front cover and blurb of our new text. We explored the layout thinking about what the text may be about. We then worked collaboratively in a vocabulary challenge where we matched words from the front cover to definitions. We then linked this back to our guiding question and expedition. We then made predictions based on the front cover thinking about what we may read about, the different sections in the book and linking our ideas to books with similar themes.
Independent comprehension in MI
We really challenged ourselves in reading today. We used the text well to answer different comprehension questions and ensured we had a positive attitude throughout, even when we found questions a little hard. Great resilience MI 🙂
A great start in MI…
We started our day with our caring crew. Here we continued to think about families and people who care for us. We started to discuss how we can support our families. We discussed some of our favourite memories then we worked as a crew to build our own acrostic poem about family. Finally we worked independently to create our own. We shared these as part of our debrief.
During reading, we started to learn about forces. We used lots of strategies to develop our fluency then worked collaboratively during our book talk session.
In writing we used the planning we had built last week to write PP2 of our independent write. Some great writing by all 🙂 A great day MI 🙂
Learning to blend in Crew Welburn
Today, we have started to use our magnetic boards to blend sounds in to words and read them! We were very excited to have a go, and had very proud faces when we realised how smart we were getting. Miss Welburn is so impressed at how well we are all doing with our reading!
Year 3/4 transition week update!
What a great start to our new Year 3/4 classes. After a bit of settling in, we have been able to complete some Crew building activities. We built spaghetti and marshmallow towers – the aim was to build the highest structure we could with the same amount of items. This has helped us feel more comfortable with each other!
Throughout the week, so far, we have also been looking at the book Small Things. We have been having many discussions about feelings and worries, in order to help settle us. These interesting discussions have been a fantastic way of getting to know our new Crews and how we can help them feel better when they aren’t quite feeling themselves!
Keep your eyes peeled for the rest of the week, where we will share our sketches of London monuments. This is preparing us for our new Expedition in Autumn! 👀👀
Crew Welburn’s new toy!
We have received a new device in Crew Welburn which we are absolutely loving! It is called a yoto and we use it to listen to our favourite stories and songs. So far, we have listened to ‘Funnybones’, ‘The Highway Rat’ and ‘Animal Stories’. We have listened carefully and acted out parts of the stories with funny actions. We can’t wait to explore all of the other stories we have!
Crew Welburn’s Half Term Competition
Please find below the competition that is going out in Crew Welburn today.
Monday 23rd in Crew MI
Children concentrating on their books via accelerated reader 🙂 Some great reading by all in Crew MI.
