This week we have been looking at long-vowel sounds.

In phonics this week we are looking at vowel sounds.

Don’t forget you can go on Phonics shed to review your phonics sounds!

In English we have been looking at traditional tales with a focus on Little Red Riding hood. Later in the month we will innovate our own version of the story.

Story Mapping Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood. People called her that because she wore a long red coat and a crimson hat. Early one morning her Mother said ‘Take this basket of food to your Grandmother’s house because she isn’t feeling well. Now listen, whatever you do don’t dilly dally on the way’. Into the basket she put a slice of fruit cake, a juicy apple and a large bottle of fizzy pop.

Little Red Riding Hood walked and she walked and she walked. She walked until she got to the middle of the forest. The forest was so dark she could barely see where she was going. Fortunately, after all that walking Little Red Riding Hood found a tree to rest under. Soon after, a woodcutter came and asked her ‘Where are you going?’ Unfortunately, a big, bad wolf was hiding behind a tree and listened as she explained everything. Greedily, he licked his lips, pushed his sharp claws into the ground and bounded off to Grandmother’s house.

When Little Red Riding Hood arrived at the house she let herself in with a key. Grandmother was lying in bed looking very strange. ‘Oh Grandmother, what big ears you have!’ said Little Red Riding Hood. ‘All the better to hear you with, my dear,’ replied Grandmother. ‘Oh Grandmother, what big eyes you have!’ said Little Red Riding Hood. ‘All the better to see you with, my dear,’ replied Grandmother. ‘Oh Grandmother, what big hands you have,’ said Little Red Riding Hood.  ‘All the better to hug you with my dear’ replied Grandmother. ‘Oh Grandmother, what big teeth you have!’ said Little Red Riding Hood. ‘All the better to EAT you with!’ the wolf cried angrily leaping off the bed. Little Red Riding Hood screamed loudly as the wolf opened his mighty jaws.

At that moment, the woodcutter dashed through the door. He was as strong as an ox and as quick as a flash. He killed the wolf with not one, not two but three mighty blows with his axe.

Luckily, Grandmother shouted from the cupboard where the wolf had hidden her. Everyone was so relieved! Finally, Grandmother was reunited with Little Red Riding Hood. They all enjoyed the basket of food together. They never heard from the wolf again and so they lived happily ever after.

Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on retrieval in our reading lessons.

Today we discussed how retrieval is finding the answer in the text. We then had a go together at answering a retrieval question step by step

Find out more about Ks1 Reading Comprehension – click here

In Phonics this week we are exploring short vowels.

In Phonics we have been learning the following sounds and best fit rules for spellings.

We’ve been learning about nutrition and health in science and now we’re looking at food poetry in English! Today we had lots of fun reading and appreciating food poetry.

Daddy’s Making Dinner

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!

We only had 5 minutes to practice and then had a go at performing the poems.

Today we had a whole class reading lesson. Our focus this week and the last two weeks is vocabulary. We looked at a poem and discussed the meaning of the words. The poem was written over one hundred years ago, so it has some words we were unfamiliar with. We had to read the whole sentence to try and understand the meaning.

A wombat

Extension: At home when reading, ask an adult to ask you these questions,

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In Phonics this week we are looking at the following sounds and best-fit spelling rules.

Try reading these at home!

For World Poetry Day, Mr Lo bought us some new books. They were signed by the Author!

Today we went to the school library for reading. Our challenge was to pick up a story book we hadn’t read before.

For our guided reading lessons this week we are focusing on vocabulary. We are looking at the meaning of words and whether the words in a sentence make sense.

In one of our tasks, we read a piece of text about gardening

We then answered questions on the meaning of words.

In another task we had to look at if the words in the text make sense. It was a lot of fun!

This week in Phonics we have been looking at the following sounds and spelling rules.

Toucans have shown they have remembered the sounds and actions taught in reception and year 1. Well done!

Don’t forget if you need to review them, go onto phonics shed and play the games!

In English we have started a new class reader. How to wash a wooly mammoth

We then had a look at two sets of instructions. We discussed which set of instructions were better and which we would follow. We then followed them to make toucan masks

Today we were very excited to plan our own version of Oliver’s Fruit Salad.

We will need to make sure we write super sentences with:

Capital letters, Full Stops, neat handwriting, adjectives and correct spellings.

We will look forward to writing them over the next two days.

Today we visited the school library. Our challenge was to find a factual book to read. Reading factual (non-fiction) books are the focus of our reading this week.

We had lots of fun reading and relaxing.

Our classreader is Oliver’s Vegetables. We have enjoyed discussing the story and learning to memorise the story for writing.

We all had a go at reading it together.

Our English Skill of the week is writing super sentences. We concentrated on CAPITAL LETTERS and full stops

1. Capital Letters

2. Full stops

Extension: Why not visit the supermarket or farm shop to see if you can spot all these vegetables!

We really enjoyed sharing our love of reading with Year 5 today! We have all noticed how good at reading we are now. Well done Toucans