During crew, we discussed what we can do to regulate our emotions. We looked at recognising how we can feel and then discussed ways in which we can help regulate ourselves. Some of the ideas we came up with were taking deep breaths, going for a walk or asking for help.
Dear Parents/Carers,
On Thursday 7th March 2024 we will be celebrating the annual reading event, World Book Day at Carcroft Primary School. As Storytelling Week was such a success back in the beginning of Spring Term we are excited to say that we will be taking part in this special day to continue to celebrate the love of books and reading!
During the school day each crew will participate in a range of engaging activities, including sharing their favourite books, recreating book front covers, performing stories through drama and lots more exciting tasks! We hope that these will support our drive to maintain, promote and engage our children’s interest in reading. Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day so that you can all see 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 book characters. As always each child will receive a World Book Day £1 token to be redeemed at a retailer of your choice.
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 from their favourite books and find out what type of books they love to read, as well as participating in some shared reading either using their school book or another book that they have at home.
We look forward to seeing your child/ren dressed up for this special celebration!
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Mrs Elmer
English Lead
Today we continued our book talk session 🙂 We started by recapping our key vocabulary, this was something we text marked when we started to read. We all took part in a read around the robin as we read, a partner read then we tried a speed read. This helped us to work on the speed of our reading and helped us to become a little more fluent. We tried to circle any other vocabulary that we didn’t understand and we then discussed this as a whole crew. We discussed different parts of the text as we read, discussing anything that surprised us! Lots did in todays session! Our reasons to read part of the lesson assessed what we had read and generated some great discussions about the text. So many of us were eager to voice our opinions about what we had read. Quite a few facts surprised us today and this added to a great book talk session with so much discussion around the text.
Today we looked at clockwise and anti clockwise, exploring turns. We looked at a quarter turn, a half turn, a three quarter turn and a full turn. We enjoyed exploring the turns with our own bodies 🙂 We then applied our learning to some written questions.
Today we worked together to build a jigsaw. We tried to use effective communication and teamwork in order to complete the challenge.
Today in Crew we explored things that make us happy and also listened to a ‘Happy’ song!
Today we listened to a story called ‘Hippobottymus’ that introduced us to a number of animals who make different noises to create music. We talked about how we could represent some of the animals using the untuned percussion instruments. Working in small groups, we decided who was going to be each animal before carefully choosing an instrument from the box that best represented that animal. We then performed together as each animal before then creating a soundscape that added a new animal each time, building up to a whole class performance, showcasing all the animals from the story!
We have been continuing to work on our ball skills during PE this week. We began by rolling the ball to our partner who used their foot to stop it before passing it back by kicking it. Once we were feeling more confident, we then moved on to passing the ball with our feet, trying to increase the distance between us and our partner. We then built on this by dribbling the ball around the hall, stopping at the cones to pass the ball to our partner between them before continuing to another pair of cones. We worked really hard to keep the ball controlled when moving around the hall and we did a great job of working well together.
Today we visited one of our favourite areas of school… the library! 🥰 Very kindly, Harlow brought in one of her lovely books from home ‘Peppa goes to London’ and we decided to take that with us to read as we got comfy in the library.
Before we left, we chose a book from the basket to take back to the classroom to read during snack time later on this week.
