Tag: English

Year 2 enjoyed visiting Egremont Library this morning to return their previously borrowed books and find a different book to borrow. They also really enjoyed listening to a story about mischievous monsters in a zoo. 

Year 4 enjoyed their trip to the library. They listened to a story, learnt how to respect books and chose a new book to take home. Back in class they carried on their learning by looking at who the author and illustrator were, studying the blurb and using a dictionary to find the meaning of any…

This week Reception have been learning to retell the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ using actions, storytelling spoons, props in the tuff tray and story maps. Today the children were shown how to draw a story map then had a go at drawing their own story maps on a large scale. They have all taken…

Year 4 are reading the Firework marker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman. In English they read a description of the Water Goddess then drafted their own descriptions. These were edited and upgraded adding similes to enhance the description then copied into their English books in their best…

After reading the story, ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ this week, the children made some bear masks in the provision. Some were very friendly bears, but some were scary!!

Year 2 have spent the week doing lots of activities around the Traditional Tale ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ . Today they wrote their own newspaper report about what really happened. 

Year 3 had a lovely trip to Egremont Library today, despite a rainy walk there. We enjoyed browsing, discussing together and choosing books to borrow. Then we had a great time reading our new books and showing our friends. Please remember to return these books to the library, along with any that…

Some representatives from Year 2 enjoyed choosing which books to take back to class for everyone to enjoy reading this term.

In our phonics this week we have been using our detective skills to spot the sounds that go together. We have been sounding them out and seeing how many sounds we could spot hiding in our story.

To practise their listening skills, Y4 listened to a description of Mr Tumnus from ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’. They had to listen carefully to all the details and include them in a drawing of him. After this, in pairs, they worked on writing their own description of him editing and…

Year 2 have been reading books written by Anthony  Browne. After some role play activities, they predicted what they thought the children might find at the end of the tunnel. This morning they used their plans to write their own ending to the story. 

Year 2 visited Egremont Library today. They enjoyed looking at all the different types of books there are. They all chose a book to withdraw using thier library card.Happy reading!