After all the conkers fell on our head yesterday, today we opened our eyes to see that it was Carla (a bird) wrapped up in a washing line!! Carla was hungry, so we had to help her. We had a challenged to try and pinch a sandwich using cocktail sticks from Percy the Park Keeper. We used cocktail sticks to represent our hedgehog spikes. We also practised our rolling skills to see if we could stick the sandwich to our back.
In our reading lesson today we continued to work on our written questions from yesterday. We used the text to skim and scan for clues then recorded our answers. We are getting more confident in using the text and we are starting to believe in ourselves. We then moved onto reading the next part of the story, we were so excited to find out what happened! We discussed the text as we read, unpicked unfamiliar vocabulary and thought about why certain parts of the story had happened. We even used our inference skills to talk about why the characters had behaved in a particular way. We discussed our opinion on the ending of the story and this allowed for some great discussions, challenging our thinking.
Today we recapped our previous vocabulary in reading by playing 4 corners! We loved playing this game! We thought about which word class the words belonged to and why. We read the words in context too to help us. We then read some of our text using a variety of reading strategies, we tried to do some text marking as we read. From here we tried to independently answer a range of fact and retrieval questions and also challenged ourselves with a green standard question. We used the knowledge we had gained in our previous demonstration comprehension lesson to help us to answer our questions.
Today in Crew MW, we hooked into our first story – The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We found a map in our classroom with a red X on it and some words explaining that we needed to ‘trip trap over’…After lots of discussion and a closer look at the map, we worked out that the map was showing our outdoor area, and that we needed to trip trap over the bridge! We had lots of feelings in our classroom before going outside. Some of us felt scared, worried and nervous, and some of us felt really excited! As we trip trapped over the bridge as a crew, we suddenly heard a big, scary voice from under the bridge shouting, ‘Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge?’ It was a TROLL!! We quickly ran inside to safety where we found a story had been left for us. It was The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We read through the story together and decided that the troll was very scary indeed! I wonder what we will get up to next week…
Crew MW began their new expedition this week – Who is hiding in the pages of this book? We hooked into the expedition by reading a story called ‘The Great Fairytale Disaster’. The story told us all about the Big Bad Wolf from the Three Little Pigs, and how he got bored of his own story so he went in search of a new fairytale to be in. We loved finding all of the different characters throughout the story and matching them to their fairytales. After that, we went on a character hunt around school to see who we could find. When we got back, we looked at the different characters and predicted that we would be looking at three stories throughout our expedition. We sorted the characters into ‘The Gingerbread Man’, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, and ‘the Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We’re very excited to get started!
Dear Parents/Carers,
During the week commencing Monday 29th January we will be celebrating the National Storytelling Week event here at Carcroft Primary School! We highly value reading and the importance of telling stories to inspire, entertain and educate our pupils. We will also take this opportunity to continue to promote the love of books and reading.
Throughout the week, pupils will participate in a range of engaging activities including sharing their favourite stories, listening to stories, creating stick puppets, writing mini stories to share, performing plays, contributing to drama activities such as āhot seatingā, āconscious alleyā and āfreeze framingā as well as sharing stories through different mediums such as films and short clips and so much more! We hope that by providing our pupils with these carefully planned activities that these will support our drive to maintain, promote and engage our pupils in reading. Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day/week so that you can see all of the exciting things that your child/ren have been getting up to throughout the week!
As part of this exciting week, we are asking for children (and staff!) to come to school in their pyjamas or comfy clothes (lounge wear) on the final day of the event on Friday 2nd February. On this day, children will be exploring ābedtime storiesā as well as books for our older pupils that are perfect for reading as they drift off to sleep! Pupils are welcome to come to school in their dressing gowns but please can you also ensure that they have a coat as the weather is still likely to be wet and cold at this time of year. Pupils are also welcome to bring their slippers to school but will need sensible footwear to wear outside at break and lunch times. For this school event we will not be asking for any monetary donations. We are aware that as a school we will be celebrating other exciting National events linked to reading such as World Book Day on Thursday 7th March, where it is likely that pupils will dress as their favourite character, which is why for this upcoming event we have made the decision to go with comfy pjs! We hope that you understand this decision as our utmost priority for the event is for our pupils to love reading!
Either at the end of this week or in preparation for the week it would be lovely for you to share with your child/ren your favourite story/ies or maybe even orally share a story with them. It is also a good opportunity to discuss characters, story morals and plots with them. At the end of the week I am sure that they will have lots of stories to share with you!
We look forward to celebrating this National event with you!Ā
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Mrs Elmer
English Lead
Today in reading we continued to explore our new text! We enjoyed reading out loud with our partners today, recapping the new vocabulary that we learnt yesterday. We text marked this new vocabulary and thought again about word class. We then moved onto to look at some fact and retrieval questions doing some demonstration comprehension with Mrs McClare. We really thought about how we go about answering questions and what we need to look for in the questions. Once we had done some together, we then worked independently or with partner support to answer our own questions. We really enjoyed our lesson and proved we could use the text to find answers.
Today we started our first hooked on books reading lesson where we started to explore our new text, āAfrican Talesā We explored the front cover and blurb thinking about what we noticed and we tried to make connections between other texts we had read. We explored and read the text in detail which really engaged us! We all wanted to start reading the book! We then looked at some vocabulary that would appear in the text when we started to read. We thought about definitions of each word and which word class the words belonged to. We then read part of the text using a chorus read, read around the robin as well as reading with our partner. We even started some text marking š
Today, we have started our new class text. We are excited to discover how this links to our Spring expedition.
Since September, weāve also read George and the giant Peach, History Hackers – A Roman Rescue and The Night I met Father Christmas. We also read some of The Christmasaurus but unfortunately we didnāt get time to finish it and January isnāt really the time for a Christmas novel.
Crew Shields absolutely love our shared reading text and itās something we look forward to. Everyone is always asking āJust one more chapterā 😊
Crew MW absolutely love going to the library, even more so when we decide to get comfy on the cushions and read a festive story with the lights off!
