One of our lovely Depute Head’s, Mrs McGregor, came to read “Winnie The Witch” by Valerie Thomas and Korey Paul. It was a great story and we all listened very carefully.
Category Archives: Literacy
Mystery Reader
Our Mystery Reader was Mrs Grey, who is one of our lovely Child Development Officers. She read “The Super Smile Shop” by Joe Cowley. It was really good.
Mystery Reader
This weeks Mystery Reader was our Base 2 Depute Head Teacher, Mrs Noble. She just loves reading books. She read “A Squash and a Squeeze” by Julia Donaldson. We all joined in and enjoyed it.
Surprise Reader
We had a surprise reader in class today. Mrs Shaw , our Director of Education came to visit us. She read “ Stick Man” by Julia Donaldson . She asked us questions and was impressed with our answers.
It’s A Puppet!
We looked at telling rhymes through using puppets. We had little squeaky voices, high pitched voices, gruff voices and big, deep voices. It was a lot of fun. We made sock puppets and designed puppets. We put on performances in the Puppet Theatre, practised our voices with the use of Buster ( our class Puppet) and we thoroughly enjoyed watching the Puppet scene, ” The Lonely Goat Herd ” from ” The Sound of Music” . Yodel- ay – ee!!
This Week’s Mystery Reader
The brilliant Mr Tyler from Primary 6 came to read to us this week. He is not only a science expert, but also a lover of books. He read two books to us- ” Frog Is Sad” by Max Velthuijs and “The Incredible Book Eating Boy” by Oliver Jeffers. He even brought in a book that the Incredible Book Eating Boy had taken a bite out of! Amazing!
Mystery Readers
We had a brilliant visit from our Mystery Readers on Thursday. Frank and Peter, our brilliant Janitors came to read to us. They were so good. They read books all about fixing things!
Learning to Write
We have been learning our sounds and are trying to put the letters together to make words. We have been trying to form the letters in foam, sand, gems, and we even write in crayon, chalk, felt pen and pencil. Learning the correct formation of a letter is really important. ( No sneaky shortcuts!)
Here are a few of our questions to Goldilocks . As we drew our pictures our teacher asked us about what we wanted to say about them. Some of us write over the teacher’s writing. ( over writing) Some of us are able to copy the teachers writing. ( underwriting) Some of us are able to begin to write some words as we can sound them out to write them. It’s very early days – we’ve only been at school for a few weeks- but we all work to the best of our ability. (And it has to be fun!)
Goldilocks Interview
Today we listened to a trial between Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We heard the story from the point of view of Goldilocks and then the Three Bears. Judge Jenny asked questions and tried to find solutions.
Then we had a special visitor! Goldilocks came to visit our class and we were able to ask her the questions that we had come up with in our writing .
We enjoyed asking her questions to find out more about why she went into the Three Bears house and what happened when the Bears came home and found her.
Mystery Reader # 4
This week’s Mystery Reader gave lots of clues to his identity!! Was he a bird? Was he a plane? No! He was Mrs Arbuckle’s “little ” boy, Gavin! He read ” Where’s My Bear?” by Jez Alborough with “Big Bear”. ” Big Bear” has travelled the world with Gavin since he was a baby. He is still a very special bear.
