03
Mar
World Book Day in the Preschool Two Year Old Room
Preschool enjoyed dressing up as different characters for World Book Day. Watch out, there’s a lion about!...
English – Reading
12
Jan
Comparing character descriptions in the BFG in Year 3
In Writing, we were immersing ourselves into our new book, The BFG. We talked about how characters can look one way on the outside but on the inside be different to what we expected. Here we are matching appearance descriptions to the personality we would...
12
Jan
Creating a dragon world in Year 2 inspired by ‘Tell me a Dragon’ by Jackie Morris
Dragons spotted in America! We started our writing topic based on the book ‘Tell me a dragon’ by Jackie Morris by imagining there were sightings of dragons in America. To entice the dragons back where they belong we designed and created a dragon world together...
12
Jan
Exploring ice and snow in Nursery
In Nursery, as part of our exploration of the story 'The Snowy Day', we have been exploring ice and snow! We used our senses of sight, smell and touch to explore what the ice looks, smells and feels like. We learnt that ice melts when...
01
Dec
Making bears based on the book ‘Everywhere bear’ in Nursery
In Nursery, we are reading, ‘Everywhere bear’. We all decided to make our very own bears out of paper plates. If you see a bear lurking, then don’t be scared, as all our Nursery bears are very friendly....
17
Nov
Journey stories inspired by ‘Meerkat Mail’ by Emily Gravett in Year 2
In Writing this week we have started a new story called “Meerkat Mail”. We will be using this book as a starting point to writing our own journey stories. We will write journey stories based on our own ideas of a journey we would like...
11
Nov
Retelling a story using pictures in nursery
Twice a week our teacher reads us a story and then we get to draw pictures on a big sheet of paper to represent the story. We love drawing all together, so much....
20
Oct
Using ‘Storyteller voices’ in Year 2
In Reading this week, we have been practicing our "storyteller voices". We have been sharing stories with each other so that we can practice reading with intonation in our voices, making what we are reading really engaging with our audience....
07
Oct
Sharing stories in Reception
We have been sharing stories with each other during choosing time. We love looking at the pictures and sharing what we think might be happening. We are also beginning to identify initial sounds in words....
16
Sep
Making play dough people in the Preschool two year olds room.
We made play dough people. We spoke about our facial features and decided to use different materials to create our faces. Our favourite part was squashing the eyes down deep into the play dough. ...