Blog by Tag: writing
Tricky words
Outside the children have enjoyed practising writing the tricky word 'into.'
Category: Ducklings
Squarky turns 1!
On 5th October, our class heron Squarky turned 1. We celebrated by giving him a birthday party. We decorated the classroom with banners and balloons. We gave him a birthday card. Then we played musical bumps and statues. Max B and Sophia won. We sang "Happy Birthday" and ate birthday cake.
We…
Category: Herons
Year 2 writing herons year 1 English recount
Traditional Tales
We have really enjoyed learning about traditional tales in English over the past 3 weeks. We have read the Wolf and The Seven Kids and The Cat, The Dog, Little red, Exploding Eggs, The Wolf and Grandma's Wardrobe. We have also had the opportunity to share your favourite stories from home including…
Category: Herons
Year 2 writing herons reading year 1 English traditional tales
Dan Worsley Interview
It was great to have Dan Worsley in school today. We were able to interview him so that we can write his biography. Hopefully we'll be able to share our biographies when we've finished writing them. We asked him a lot of questions and found out some funny moments from his childhood.
What…
Category: Owls
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"Doves research facts about Roald Dahl"
All this week the children have been researching facts about Roald Dahl so that they can create their own fact file about this world famous author. We celebrated Roald Dahl Day yesterday by finding even more facts about this amazing man. We have already made a great start in revising the features…
Category: Doves
Fantastic Mr Fox
This week in English we have been learning about Fantastic Mr Fox and the different characters that are in the story. We have discussed lots about the setting and how the characters feelings change through the story. We have enjoyed reading the story so far as there are lots of funny parts in…
Category: Robins
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Writing Rhyming Strings
The Ducklings have enjoyed listening to lots of rhyming stories last week. We also played lots of rhyming games. Some of the children went on to write words of their own, adding them to a rhyming string.
Category: Ducklings
Owls Big Bird Watch
This week in Owls we have had a fun week of learning based on bird watching.
We have researched and found out about many different types of birds and went out to spot as many as we could. We then wrote about what we saw. In Maths we created a tally of how many birds we saw in a period of time…
Category: Owls
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Writing our ingredients
The children wrote lists of ingredients to go alongside the imaginary recipes they had made in the mud kitchen! It really got the boys interested in writing!
Category: Ducklings
Name Writing
We have been busy practising writing our names!
Category: Ducklings
Outdoor Physical skills
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Did you know that to be a successful writier our gross motor skills need to be developed too?
The ducklings were building up theor muscles ready to write by pushing tyres around the field. We had lots of fun too!
Have a look here.
Category: Ducklings
Rainbow Writing
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Practising writing the s sound.
Category: Ducklings
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