We loved having grown ups in yesterday for our story time session! We had lots of fun sharing stories with you 📚
Crew MW’s Story Time Session 📚
Category : Reading at Carcroft
Star Reader Breakfast 🌟📚🥐🧃
What a lovely start to the day! This morning I had the pleasure of having my breakfast with the Carcroft Star Readers. It was lovely listening to the children share why they had been chosen as their Crews Star Reader and I could sense just how proud they all were 👏 I also got the opportunity to listen to the children talk about how they celebrated Roald Dahl day in their crews yesterday, it sounded like they had lots of fun! Especially in Crew MI where they got to watch people eating worms 🪱 I’m guessing it was The Twits ‘Wormy spaghetti’ or as Mrs Twit calls it ‘Squiggly Spaghetti’! 🤣 Well done Star Readers! 👏
Roald Dahl Day 2023! 🎈🎉📚📝
What a ‘PHIZZ WHIZZING’ 🌟 day it was across UKS2 this morning! Today I had the pleasure of sharing my love of Roald Dahl books with Crew McLoughlin, Crew MI and Crew Boswell. In Crew McLoughlin we looked at some of my favourite Roald Dahl books including Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG. The children also shared some of their favourite books. We then looked at some information about Roald Dahl including his personal life, work life and great achievements. Our most interesting finding was that he was a spy at the age of 25, during WW2! The children then created some information leaflets so that they could share their knowledge about Roald Dahl with others. In Crew MI, we started by learning who Roald Dahl was, what he was famous for and why we celebrate him on this specific date (his birthday! 🎈) We then collaboratively, through echo and chorus reading, read an extract from the BFG. The children then used this to draw what they thought the BFG looked like based on the description that Roald Dahl had written. The children’s drawings were ‘SPLENDIFEROUS’! In Crew Boswell, we started by reading some interesting facts about Roald Dahl including his early life, his school life, his role during WW2, his children, the books he wrote and how he spent his later life. We couldn’t believe how many books he had written (49!) and how many had been translated into over 50 different languages so that they can be enjoyed worldwide! We also enjoyed looking at ‘GOBBLEFUNK’ (words invented by Roald Dahl!). The children finished the session by making posters all about Roald Dahl. After a busy morning and lots of hard work we were all definitely ready for ‘SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS’! 😋🍽
Happy Birthday Roald Dahl 🥳
Today, we celebrated Roald Dahl. An author we’ll all be familiar with and no doubt spent time reading his wonderful books.
I shared an extract of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is my favourite Roald Dahl book. We learned about his life and discovered that he invented a medical device which he gave to the NHS for free. A device still used to help lots of people.
Children were then able to choose an activity related to Roald Dahl. They could do some mindful colouring of quotes by Roald Dahl, acrostic poems, design a new front cover for their favourite book or design a sweet as if they were Willy Wonka.
Learning to blend in Crew MW’s phonics
We’ve been working really hard on our learning to blend steps in phonics this week. We’ve been listening to Fred’s Fred talk, blending the sounds into words and then using our magnetic letters to make the words. Once we’ve made them, we’ve used our ‘Fred talk, read the word’ to sound out and read the words back! We’re all going to be super blenders in no time!
Predicting our new text 👀🔎
We explored the front cover and blurb of our new text on Monday. We focused on the genre and purpose of the book and why we would want to read it. We are really excited to learn facts about climate change, deforestation and rainforests to help us in expedition.
Our new text is called Forests by Jess French.
Celebrating Roald Dahl
Such a lovely morning celebrating Roald Dahl today. We shared our favourite Roald Dahl book with the rest of the crew giving reasons for our choices. We then watched a video clip on Roald Dahl and shared all the facts we had learnt. Mrs McClare then read some of The Twits, her favourite Roald Dahl story! There were so many laughs and giggles whilst we read the story. After reading a couple of chapters we watched a re-enactment of one scene from the story! Children really were laughing a lot!!! I think the pictures say it all!!
Reading Volunteers Wanted!
Hello Everyone!
We are yet again looking for some volunteers (across all crews) to come into school and listen to some children read on a 1:1 basis.
Scarily, 1 in 4 children leave primary school unable to read well, resulting in life long consequences. It is our mission at Carcroft to ensure that all of our children leave our school able to read well.
If you have some time to spare, a day, a few hours or even an hour, and enjoy spending time with children then we would love it if you could come and help us to support our children with reading.
We hope that from this experience our children will become better readers and develop a stronger love for reading and for you to gain an enormous amount of pleasure from seeing the difference that a few hours can make to a child’s reading ability, confidence and enjoyment.
Ideally we would appreciate volunteers giving us their time for as long as possible, however if you are only able to commit to a few weeks or months then please do not hesitate to enquire.
If you feel like this is something that you can offer then please pop into the school office who will be able to provide you with more details.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Mrs Elmer (English Lead)
Roald Dahl Day 2023!
Dear Parents/Carers,
Next week, on Wednesday 13th September 2023 we will be celebrating Roald Dahl Day here at Carcroft Primary School! We highly value reading and as a school feel that as Roald Dahl was one of the best-known and best-selling authors of the 20th century, that we should take part in this special day to celebrate him and his books. As well as take the opportunity to continue to promote the love of books and reading.
During the school day each crew will participate in a range of engaging activities, including sharing their favourite Roald Dahl books, listening to staff read an extract from their favourite Roald Dahl novel, watching movie adaptations, learning interesting facts about Roald Dahl including the history of Roald Dahl and lots lots 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 day!
As part of this exciting day we are asking for the children (and staff!) to come to school dressed as their favourite Roald Dahl book character. We are aware that the event is next week so do not expect new outfits to be purchased for the event. Just simply have a look in your child’s wardrobe and see what they can wear. Such as, a blue dress for Matilda or a pair of jeans and red top for George. If you feel your child does not have anything suitable then they can simply just their own clothes for the day that they feel comfortable in (non-school uniform), of course if they wish to dress up they can! We know the first few weeks of school life are manic and do not wish to add to this! We also won’t be asking for any monetary donations on this occasion.
Either at the end of this day or in preparation for the day it would be lovely for you to discuss with your child/ren the different characters that appear in some of the famous Roald Dahl story books and maybe even share a favourite Roald Dahl story (there are lots online!).
We look forward to celebrating this special day!
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Mrs Elmer
English Lead
Story time in MI
Mrs Ibbotson joined us for our story this afternoon! She read ‘The Vanishing Rainforest’ which we all enjoyed. This linked to our expeditionary learning and created some great discussions throughout the story.
We finished the day with some handwriting practice. We are really trying to work on our letter formation and will consolidate the letters we practised in our morning task tomorrow.
