Using our book, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, we participated in the story by building bridges across the ‘river’. In the garden we made a bridge using crates and we 'trip trapped' across it. Later, we used the small world goats and helped them across the...
Last week we celebrated World Book Day at Parsloes and we enjoyed the day having the opportunity to read for pleasure. We spent time reading the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell; bringing it to life by making boxes with the animals inside. As well...
For our new unit of work – ‘On the Farm’, we are reading and learning a new text called ‘The very Busy Spider’. To immerse the pupils in the text we have read it and acted it out; using all of the different animals that...
This week, we have been fully immersing ourselves in our new Talk for Writing Text ‘Lost and Found’. We have been designing and creating our very own Arctic scene. We looked closely at a range of photos of the arctic, thinking about what shapes and...
On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day with costumes of our favourite book characters and lots of time to read for pleasure throughout the day. Children from the Meadow visited the school library and picked out books to read alone and with adults. The children...
We have had a lovely day exploring and reading books in the ARP. Some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters and shared our books with our friends. We read books in the classroom, in the garden and visited the school library to...
In our English lessons, we have been exploring poetry. We have been learning about figurative language, such as similes and metaphors. We have been exploring how to choose the most effective images to create our own poem about a fairy tale villain. [gallery ids="23311,23312,23314,23315"]...
It was lovely to see so many happy, smiley faces on our return to school this week. We have started to explore our new book, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ which is part of our Once Upon a Time topic. Our first job was to find...
Reception visit to the Local Library This week, the children enjoyed an exciting trip to Dagenham Library. They walked sensibly and safely, taking time to spot and talk about interesting features in the local area along the way. At the library, the children met the librarian,...
During our reading sessions, we have been exploring the text of Persephone. We have been discussing the thoughts, feelings and actions of the characters of Persephone, Hades and Demeter and how these are revealed through the text and the illustrations. We have also been focusing...
