Those Who Don't Believe in Magic Will Never Find It
Well done to Willow who have been learning all about Roald Dahl's life - proudcing a double page spread! They have made great predictions about the front cover and the contents page of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and have begun to explore adjectives and expanded noun phrases based on…
Home by Jeannie Baker
Willow were great detectives whilst working out the order of the picture book ‘Home’ by Jeannie Baker. They showed great oracy and teamwork skills before working hard on designing a new landscape for a local run down area.
Making predictions
In Oak Class, we began our new unit of learning in English by making predictions about the text. The children used clues from the front cover along with details in the blurb to predict and write any questions that they have about the story. We then unpicked and explored new vocabulary to enhance…
Informal letters
In English this week, Oak Class got into the role of Stanley from our class text, Holes. After reading the letter that Stanley sends home to his mom, we planned and wrote informal letters for the same purpose: to reassure home that Stanley is well and enjoying camp! We developed our inference…
Yellow-Spotted Lizards
After continuing with our class book, the children learned about the dangerous creatures in ‘Holes’, Oak Class planned and wrote their own non-chronological reports about the yellow-spotted lizard. Their double-page spreads look fantastic!
Visit Standon Bowers!
After a fantastic residential, the children wrote their own persuasive leaflets for the future Oak Class to persuade them to go on our school trip!
Investigating how flowers grow
We have been reading “The Tiny Seed” and exploring the life cycle of a sunflower. We have been drawing sunflowers using pastels, exploring soil and seeds in a hands-on way and pretending to grow our own flowers in our garden den!
Explanations
In English we looked at features of an explanation text. Then we worked in pairs to find and label each feature so we know what to include in our own writing!
Super stories
This week Year 1 have worked hard to retell the story of Pinocchio. Reception have created their own sentences to describe the main events. Year 1 really enjoyed reading and sharing their stories with their friends!
Command sentences
In Oak Class, we developed our oracy skills by using visual representations to create command sentences for our instruction writing. After turning statements into commands, the children considered how they can vary their use of vivid vocabulary when selecting imperative verbs. We also ensured that…
Beowulf character descriptions
Oak Class applied their learning of expanded lists to independently describe the character of Beowulf, based on what we have read in whole-class reading. The class did a fantastic job and have shown such growth in their writing abilities this year!
Advice for Pinocchio
Year 1 have been busy offering advice to Pinocchio! He wants to be a real boy but on his first day of school he was distracted and went to a puppet show instead! We wanted to help him make good choices!