We started the year by reading Roald Dahl’s autobiography and then we wrote our own.
English
Spelling – Prefix and Suffix
In Year 5 and Year 6 we have been learning about prefixes and suffixes in our spelling lessons then ensuring we use words containing them in all our writing.
Poetry Festival
We are looking forward to our Poetry Festival on Monday 20th March. Diamond Class chose their own poems to perform either individually or as a group and have been learning how to perform them with expression. We look forward to seeing their performances!
Book Sale
In the afternoon of World Book Day, we had a second hand book fair. Thank you to everyone that donated books and we hope you all enjoy reading your new books!
Exploring Poetry
This half term, we will be studying poetry in English lessons ready for our poetry festival at the end of term. We all read five poems then analysed their rhyme, rhythm, language, punctuation and meaning. We also explained why the poem was our favourite, learning how to justify our answers. Which poem is you favourite and why?
World Book Day
We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters for World Book Day. We took part in different activities and enjoyed sharing stories with our circles groups.
English Rhyming Words
In English we have been learning about rhyming words. As a class we followed the story Zog by Julia Donaldson and filled in the missing rhyming words to complete the sentences.
Reception Phonics
Reception have been doing Read Write Inc Phonics, learning sounds, words and reading books consistent with their phonic knowledge.
Emerald Class Reading Comprehension
Today in reading comprehension reception read the book’ Peace at last’. We then had to think about what noises we could hear in the morning and at night.
