Blog by Tag: Reading

When we came in, we all had a book in our place. We had to read the book quietly and then complete a book review. It was a lovely, calming way to start the morning, and we all got some good recommendations of books we may like to read!

What a success our third 'Phonics stay and play' of the year was. This was a great opportunity for parents, teachers and children to share our progress together. It also enabled the parents to find out what their child's next steps are with their reading and writing so they can support them at…

What a way to introduce our new topic.... sitting underneath the beautiful blossom trees reading 'Hello Spring'. This half term we will be learning about Spring, and being caring towards our environment and each other.

This week, we began our new topic 'ID'. This is a science based topic based around our identity. We will be looking at concepts such as: DNA, genes, characteristics, inheritance. We will also be looking into social reformers and how they brought about change to daily life in their way. This…

We are really enjoying getting some weekly time to go and spend in the library. We are starting o understand how the library is organised into genres and how this can help us choose which book we would like to read. We like to use the blurb to help us decide if we would like to read a certain…

As part of our RE lesson, we found Matthew 26: 14-16 to help with our explanation. We learned how to find specific readings of The Bible. 
 

In EYFS, we can hire out our own bikes. We have to write our name/find our name on the sign out sheet so we know which number bike to use. When we return the bikes, we rub our name out/take our name off the sheet. This week, we enjoyed following the story map around the bike track, stopping off at…

Today we celebrated World Book Day! The children came in dressed in some fantastic costumes for their favourite characters! We had lots of fun exploring and sharing books today. Some of our favourite activities were making reading dens to share our favourite books with our friends and having a…

Today was World Book Day, so to celebrate we had a whole day of fun reading activities! We all had some quiet reading time to read a new story, then we had to write a book review. Once we had all finished our book reviews, we went around the class and looked at each other's reviews to see if there…

This morning, Year 4 enjoyed a Book Tasting event, where the sampled books from different genres and rated them. This afternoon, Year 3 and 4 took part in a fun reading quiz. The children split into mixed teams to complete 4 rounds of book related questions. 

Lots of fun celebrating World Book Day! 
 

WORLD BOOK DAY!

We really enjoyed dressing up and being in character all day! Everyone experienced a range of different activities which enabled us all to get a real enjoyment from reading and listening to stories.