After reading our special story the children have chatted about who they have in their families and what they mean to them.
Click on the link below to see what some of them have said…
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The children in Year 5 were delighted to discover a mysterious golden invitation inviting them to visit and explore the wonders of the “Nowhere Emporium”. Excitedly, they made their way to the smaller classroom in the Y56 POD, where they were amazed to discover that it had been transformed into a magical emporium of wonders!
Surrounded by mysterious objects and intriguing treasures, the children’s imaginations were instantly sparked. They soon discovered that they would be reading The Nowhere Emporium this term, with their English work inspired by the magical world within the story. What a wonderful way to begin our new English journey!
Can you guess what story we have been reading this week from the clues below?
The Little Red Hen!
We have loved reading this story together in class this week and have had lots of lengthy discussions about sharing and helping each other! We have chatted about animals you might see on a farm and the different jobs that might happen there.
The story led us to lots of discussions and talk about bread...if we like it, what we like on it and where it comes from!
We realised that it doesn’t start in the local shops but that it is made and comes from a crop called wheat…which is farmed!!!
We had lots of fun watching the process of harvesting and collecting wheat and how this is ground to make flour in a mill.
We then had a go at using flour to make our very own bread, which was lots of fun, and messy too! We stirred, poured and kneaded to make the perfect dough ready for cooking in the oven and eating with some home-made butter! The children enjoyed this part!
We have loved reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and have been mesmerised by our caterpillars in the classroom and have really enjoyed watching them grow and change.
It seemed only right to create our very own beautiful butterflies.
Click on the link below to see how we made them…
To introduce our new story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ we immersed our classroom and turned it in to our very own farm! The children had a fabulous day, click the link to see more…
Our afternoon children have tried Gruffalo Crumble today! It was Jacob’s idea!
Click on the link below to see what the children thought…
Our new story is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. To help us learn all about caterpillars and how then transform into butterflies we have got some REAL baby caterpillars so that we can watch them grow and change.
The children have been intrigued by them already!
Jax said, “They’re crawling, they can actually crawl on their own, that one just crawled up!”
Blake said, “I can see that one climbing.” Nevaeh added, “It’s on the wall.”
Finnley said, “They’re eating, eating the food.” He was right.
Freddie told us, “They’re ‘gonna’ get big!”
We can’t wait to watch them grow and change.
Mrs Smith’s class were very excited to visit the library this week.
We love to look at the books and share stories with each other. It is always calm and relaxing when we visit the library. It helps us to clear our minds and get lost in a magical world far away when we read some of the amazing fiction books we have.
We can’t wait until our next visit when get to read more books.
In year 6, we have been looking at writing formal letters of complaint. The children have been complaining (like normal but more formally) about missing parcels, dodgy cinema experiences and even finding a cricket in their McDonalds meal! working together they have really worked hard on improving their peer editing skills.
F2 have loved reading the story ‘Tad’ by Benji Davies!!!
This story has inspired us to explore the lifecycle of a Frog, discussing how Tad starts his journey and where he ends up!
We have learnt lots of new key vocabulary, such as ‘frog spawn’ ‘tadpole’ ‘froglet’ and ‘frog’… and discussed how the life cycle continues and goes round and round.
Mrs Wilkinson brought in some pretend frog spawn- chia seeds- we added water and mixed the gloopy mixture together to resemble real life frog spawn!
The children had a great time feeling and describing the spawn- describing it as “gooey’ “wet” “thick” and “gloopy”!
We had a great time mark making and drawing our own life cycles and could confidently talk about the process and change from frog spawn to frog!
