In English, we started this week by finishing off our newspaper reports based on the missing book in ‘How to Live Forever’ by Colin Thompson. Then we recapped how we can use adjective and adverb questions in order to modify nouns/ verbs and make our sentences more interesting. Towards the end of the week we … Read more
In English this week we have been planning and writing our own newspaper reports about the missing book in ‘How to Love Forever’ by Colin Thompson. We have been thinking carefully about how to include the features of newspaper reports as well as how we can improve our writing. In reading, we have continued to … Read more
This week in English we have been continuing to read ‘How to Live Forever’. In our writing we have been further exploring features of newspaper reports and we have recapped how to organise information into paragraphs. This week we also started to plan our own newspaper reports based around the missing book, we will be … Read more
Welcome back! We hope that you all had a lovely Christmas. This week in English we have started our new text ‘How to Live Forever’ by Colin Thompson. This is a picture book with wonderful illustrations and a very thoughtful story. We have read the first few pages in which we found out that a … Read more
Thank you to everyone who came to watch our Christmas performance and for ensuring that the children all attended both evenings. We hope you enjoyed it and thank you once again for providing costumes. This week in English and reading we have continued to read ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. We have been discussing what has … Read more
This week in English and reading we have continued to read ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. We have been continuing to work on using adjectives and adverbs in our writing as well as being able to identify which question is being answered. We have started to think about our own adventure stories that will be written … Read more
This week in English and reading we have continued to read ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. We have recapped how we can use adjectives in our writing as well as moving on to thinking about adverbs and the adverb questions. We have experimented with writing sentences that include and adverb. Later in the week, we began … Read more
This week in English and reading we have continued to read ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. We have continued to work on carefully using the text to ask and answer literal ‘who’ and ‘what’ questions. We have also been working on writing informal letters from Lalchand to Lila. In our letters we have been using pattern … Read more
This week in English and reading we have continued to read ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. We have explored what has been happening to the characters and we have thought about the journey that Lila is making. We have continued to ask and answer literal questions particularly focusing on ‘who’ and ‘what’. We have been working … Read more
Welcome to Term 2! This week in English and reading we have started to look at ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman. We have thought about the opening to the story and what we know about the characters. During our reading skills sessions, we have been learning about asking and answering literal ‘who’ questions. … Read more
