Curriculum Impact Tag: English

This week in our literacy work, the children have joined the Drawing Club! Our Drawing Club has been based on the book ‘The Christmas Pine’ and the aim is to spark the children’s imagination and develop language through creating “magic codes” like letters or words into their drawings. First we…

The week we have been reading the Christmas Pine. The book tells the story of a Norwegian pine tree chosen to be the annual Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. The story’s meaning symbolises peace and friendship as the tree is a gift from Norway to the UK. This week the children designed their own…

Year 1-English-Command words
 

We have had lots of fun today learning about command words in English. We rolled the dice in pairs and followed the different commands. 

”clap your hands” “stamp your feet” “bend your knees”

Communication & Language, Physical Development, Literacy

We are reading ‘I’m Going to Eat This Ant’ by Chris Naylor which is a story about an anteater who is tired of eating ants all the time. This week the children have looked at different images and clips of anteaters. We then asked them to…

Everyday is a nursery rhyme day in Nursery A but we are singing even more this week as it’s National Nursery Rhyme Week.  Here we are having fun singing ‘Row, row, row your boat’ with a partner.

Year 1-Nibbles 

In partners we have been talking about how the characters in Goldilocks and The Three Bears felt using the word ‘and.’ 

“Goldilocks is sad and shocked.”

”Daddy Bear is angry and upset.”

We saw fantastic creativity and imagination in our sensory play this week.  Children were focused and engaged well with the experiences provided.  Cognitively, sensory play stimulates neural pathways in the brain through exploring different textures, materials and smells.  

We are studying The Winter's Child and today we acted out a scene that we wrote ourselves. Some of us were a little nervous but we had great fun pretending to be characters from the story.

This week the children have been working in their key groups to find hidden bugs in our woodland area. They used their investigative skills to look for the photographs of different insects and to talk about their features. We will continue to learn about bugs this half term as we are reading ‘I’m…

Today we analysed different characters in traditional tales and looked at the themes involved.

We then predicted which characters might appear in our new class story, ‘The Lost Happy Endings.’

Today we were visited by Margaret and Michael from Lancashire Hawks and Owls. They brought some of their amazing birds with them to show us. We learnt lots of facts about the birds and we we able to stroke some of them.