2P have been using their English lessons to read different texts about the visitor locations in Doncaster. They used their reading skills to answer various types of questions whilst also learning more about what Doncaster has to offer.
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Safety, Active, Writing superstars!
3GS are writers!
3GS have all worked really hard to produce some fantastic setting descriptions of their own chocolate factories, I was very impressed with the effort and imagination of everyone in the class; you should all be really proud!
Here are a few examples of their beautiful work:
We are getting quicker!
4H have been practising how to find words in a dictionary. It has certainly been interesting and the children have really had to grapple with the process of how to do this. As we made great strides of improvement yesterday, I began racing the children to see who could find the stated word the quickest. Methmi and Poppy were not happy that they were only a couple of seconds slower than I was! Maybe next week they will beat me…
Mrs Haycock
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We are writers!
We are Getting Smart
Using the dictionaries and thesauruses that Mrs Graves has recently bought for school, we have been able to find synonyms and antonyms without having to ask for help! We feel so proud of ourselves and will get quicker at finding the words the more that we practise.
Thank you Mrs Graves, we love these!
Mrs Haycock
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Past Tense
In 2L this week we have been writing recounts and have been focussing on writing accurately in the past tense. The children enjoyed finding verbs and then used their magic wands to put them into the past tense. They knew to watch out for the sneaky verbs that were trying to catch us out by not ending in ed.
Mrs Lewis
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Year 5 Book Club
We have been working really hard reading and reviewing the shortlisted books for the Doncaster Author and Illustrator Prize.
We would like to share out website of reviews – maybe it will inspire you to read one of our books!
https://sites.google.com/ploverschool.co.uk/dipdapawards/home/suitcase-switch
Mrs Graves
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Time to read Tuesdays…
In crew on Tuesdays, we take a reading focus. I can’t think of anything better than finding a good book and getting completely lost in the story which could take you to anywhere in your imagination. This week, we looked at a children’s magazine with a variety of different stories in it. We scanned through the magazine to find something that caught our eye and then explained to each other what our attention was grabbed by and why.
Mrs Haycock
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Listening Walk
Today in 2L , the children made themselves an extra pair of listening ears and we went on a listening walk to find out what we could hear in school. We crept around and heard all sorts of sounds including cutlery clattering in the hall, birds tweeting outside, doors banging and the jazzy music coming from Y6. The children were really quiet and were shocked by what they could hear when they really tried to concentrate.
We are going to turn these noises into expanded noun phrases and write our very our sound poem. We’ll make sure to blog our final work.
