Roald Dahl (year 2)

This term, we are reading stories written by the famous author Roald Dahl.

Everyday, before assembly and at the end of the school  day, we settle down and read our class book.

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First we read ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’

 

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Then we read ‘Esio Trot’

 

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Now we are reading ‘The Twits’

Oh no! We will have to go through it!

This week we continued with our work around the story We’re going on a bear hunt by Michael Rosen. The children have been working hard on making bear masks and scenes from the story for our class display. We have completed pictures and writing about our favourite parts of the story . When our work was complete, we asked two friends to talk about our work and say what they liked best about it. We also asked if they could say what might make it better next time. Great job everyone!IMG_4707 IMG_4708 IMG_4709 IMG_4710 IMG_4725 IMG_4726 IMG_4727 IMG_4728 IMG_4729 IMG_4730 IMG_4731 IMG_4732 IMG_4733 IMG_4734 IMG_4735 IMG_4736 IMG_4737 IMG_4739 IMG_4740 IMG_4741 IMG_4742 IMG_4743 IMG_4744 IMG_4745 IMG_4746 IMG_4747 IMG_4748 IMG_4749 IMG_4757 IMG_4759 IMG_4760 IMG_4761 IMG_4762 IMG_4763 IMG_4764 SDC15911 SDC15913

 

Year One – memory tree

In Year One we have been looking at our topic memory box.

We have been sharing memories of when we were babies.

We practised writing the sentences on whiteboards, remembering to use our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

Then we were allowed to use pen to write our sentences on leaves.

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We then made a memory tree from our leaves as a display in our classroom.

 

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Relay Racing in Y3

Our P.E. focus for this half term is athletics and this week Y3 have been learning how to pass the baton on safely during a relay race. The wonderful, sunny weather today has enabled us to take full advantage of the MUGA to run relay races and develop this new skill.

Ahoy, me hearties! (Year 2)

Our topic for this term is ‘Land Ahoy’

Yo-ho-ho! Arrrr….me hearties, – it’s a sailor’s life for me!

Last week we started Talk for Writing and we learnt ‘The Story of Pirate Tom’.  This week we have created and written our own stories!

On Friday, to celebrate how hard we worked in our Maths SATs, we had a Pirate Party! Look at how much fun we had! We made our own pirate hats, we played pirate party games and we had some yummy party food.

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Boxing Club has started

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Our new boxing club has been up and running this week with great success. This is a non-contact club and will help develop children’s physical strength, general fitness and self-control. The club is being run for us by two boxing coaches from Pat Benson Boxing Academy, Small heath.

Year 5 trip to the Butterfly farm

On Tuesday 3rd of May, Year 5 went on a trip to the Butterfly Farm in Stratford-Upon-Avon. The trip was a chance to learn more about the life cycle and habitats of Butterflies and other insects, which ties in with our current topic of minibeasts.

During our trip we were given an educational tour of the Butterfly Farm, which greatly increased our knowledge on the species, along with having the opportunity to explore the farm independently. Children also had the chance to hold and touch butterflies, with some of the group looking like they might be the next David Attenborough.

All the children enjoyed the trip and we are now looking forward to continuing our learning in our topic lessons.

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Some of the many butterflies
Some of the many butterflies
Touching caterpillars
Touching caterpillars
Learning about the life cycle of butterflies
Learning about the life cycle of butterflies

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

This week we have started Talk for Writing of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We have had a busy week; re-telling, acting out, making our own story maps and creating our own stick puppets and masks.

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We have also been busy creating a bridge just like the one in the story. The children were really creative and thought of lots of different things we could use. We had to make sure the bridge was strong enough for the goats to walk over, and big enough for the nasty troll to fit under it!

 

 "Who's the trip trapping over my bridge?"

“Who’s trip trapping across my bridge?

On Wednesday, we were able to recall and sequence some of the story in the correct order. However, to help us re-tell the whole story we created a class story map. Mrs Bi helped us draw our story map with her fabulous drawing skills! We also created our own story maps, and were able to retell the story using some fantastic story language and repeated refrains from the story. We really enjoyed getting into the role of the characters, especially the role of the nasty, mean Troll.

Our class story drawn by Mrs Bi

Azaan’s fantastic story map!
Alexia’s amazing story map!
Andreya’s super story map!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have had an enjoyable week introducing Talk for Writing, and looking forward to adding actions to our story next week!