We reread the story of ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ and acted out each part of the story thinking about the emotions of each character and the order in which it happened.
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Nursery Rhyme Week 2023: Hickory Dickory Dock…
First we listened to the rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock, and discussed what happened. Then the children made a big clock for a mouse to run up. Everyone took turns spinning the wheel then joining in singing the rhyme it stopped on. We then made lots of little mice in the...
Nursery Rhyme Week 2023: Jack and Jill
First we listened to the rhyme Jack and Jill and discussed what happened. Then the children performed first aid, dressing up as doctors and nurses to treat everyone with a broken crown. The rain finally stopped and we went up to the top of of the hill rolled down just...
Creations to help Jim and the giant
We designed and created cup and string phones to help the giant communicate with Jim since Jim chopped the beanstalk down. We had great fun testing them to make sure they would be able to hear each other too!
Run, run as fast as you can…
... you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man! We have really enjoyed reading our class text for this half term. We arrived at school to find a trail of crumbs and clues had been left in our classroom. We predicted who it might be before we found out it was the...
What is a sentence?
As part of our SPAG lesson today, we discussed what we thought a sentence was. We decided it was an idea that needed to make sense and needed the correct punctuation. We focussed on statements today and worked hard to ensure we included capital letters, finger spaces...
Musical role play
We had lots of fun reading our new class text and adding musical instruments to mimic the footsteps of Jim and the giant. We used drums to show the thunder of the giants footsteps and a triangle to show how light footed Jim is.
A Great Start!
Year 4 started to think about their new guided reading text today. We were given the book's title 'Stig of the Dump' and some clues in the form of articles and we had to make predictions about what might happen in the story. There were stones, bones, treasure, furs...
Bringing Books to Life Club
What an afternoon I've had! The children who attend KS2 Bringing Books to Life Club invited me to watch their performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and they were amazing! They had worked with Joanne over this whole term to develop their performance, they...
Grace Darling
In English and History, we have been learning about Grace Darling and how she became a heroine. We found out facts about her early life and the night of the rescue. We enjoyed freeze framing which has helped us to sequence the events, ready to write a biography about...