Reading Books and Reading Diary

All pupils now have an individual reading book which should be brought to school every day.  These books are designed to be shared/read with support from an adult/older sibling.

All pupils will read/share their book with an adult in class every day.  Books will be changed weekly.

Please complete the reading diary to comment that a book/page has been shared.  It is much better to look at a single page for 5mins/day rather than to spend an hour trying to read/discuss the whole book.

Key points to notice – children need to identify the front cover, back cover, front page and more able, understand what is meant by author.

Any questions – don’t hesitate to ask.  🙂

Mrs Chapman

 

This week’s letter focus: m

We are revising letter signs/phonemes (sounds) at pace and this week’s focus is ‘m’.  We have been enjoying some ‘rap’ phoneme songs on youtube, this is the M letter song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiK7IL0kqd0 (it is American, and does mention mall as one of the m words, but is great for practising lots of ‘m’ sounding (lips pressed together) – and it’s fun!

In class, we use this finger-spelling sign the most for Monday (sign M followed by ‘day’ sign) and if someone’s first initial is M we sign M to identify them once we know their name.  (The first time they are introduced it would be fingerspelt for someone who could not hear, or needed to know how to spell :).

Cadburyworld Trip

<—- The Makaton sign for choco -late!

What an exciting day – our trip to Cadburyworld!  We walked through an Aztec jungle, looked at carvings of the cacao beans and of some ancient Aztecs, and saw a variety of multimedia displays explaining how chocolate is made and when it came to Britain.  It was Oliver Cromwell (Tudor times) that brought it to our shores.  There was lots of history.

We walked around the Bournville factory – and watched a huge vat of liquid chocolate being stirred to keep it silky-smooth, and followed the sweet scent of chocolate down to where it was moulded.  Everyone enjoyed a small cup of liquid chocolate!

All the children enjoyed the Cadabra ride through the land of the little chocolate beans and played a few games along the way.  Outside, we discovered the play area before setting off for a picnic and play at Cannonhill Park. 

This week will be following up our visit with links to literacy (people who help us – food manufacturers), science (melting and freezing), history (the Aztecs) and Art/DT (chocolate dips).

Mrs Chapman

Mother’s Day

We would be delighted to see you at our Mother’s day assembly on Friday 16th March in the school hall.  Fathers, grandmothers are welcome too!  It really makes a difference for every child to have someone there to share in their achievements.