This afternoon, we took some time to go to the library to select a new reading book. We were very impressed with all the new books there are.
It was lovely to see the different genres that the children selected.
Category : Reading in Action
Our First Week Back
It’s been a busy first week back but we’ve managed to have a lot of fun too. Watch our weekly roundup for just a snippet of the things that we’ve been doing!
First day back…
It has been a busy first day back as we caught on all the delightful things that happened over Christmas but also getting back into our routine. In Crew Shields, we find routines and structure very important so essential that we get settled in quickly.
We started the day with Crew and finding out what Santa delivered. Lots of very lucky children this Christmas.
We then started into reading which is a new text about the eye. We reminded ourselves about the importance of text marking and how this can support our comprehension.
During Expedition, we started with some hook activities to get us immersed in our learning. Absolutely great to see we have some history experts in the room. I may need to use that knowledge as we move through this expedition. We even started to infer what we think the guided questions may be based on what we’ve done so far. The big reveal will happen on Friday and no doubt we’ll be able to have some more guesses at the question.
Reading Superstars in KS1
Children in KS1 have been reading collaboratively to read their texts in phonics. We have had some speedy ready as well as fantastic compression skills!
Reading – Text Marking
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!
