Year 2 - Sophie in the Saddle

This half term Year 2 are reading Dick King-Smith's book Sophie in the Saddle. 

What do you think the book is going to be about?

What do you think Sophie will do in the book?

Our Amazing Year 1 Garden

"Today me and my friends picked the radishes we had grown and some of the leaves were spiky. We ate some of the rocket leaves as we picked them!"

"Also in the garden we tied pea stalks to canes so they can grow upwards, because at the moment they are not big enough. With the onions we pulled up ones which were too small, this will give more room for the other onions to grow."

 My friend took the radishes and rocket to Mikey the chef. On Friday he is going to put them in a salad for us to eat at lunch time. We are so excited because we haven't tasted the radishes before!

Blind Man's advice

We have been reading the traditional tale of The Blind Man and the Hunter. The story starts like this....

"Once upon a time there was a blind man who lived with his sister in a hut in a village on the edge of the forest. Now, this blind man was very clever. Even though his eyes saw nothing, he seemed to know more about the world than people whose eyes were as sharp as needles. He would sit outside his hut and talk to passers-by. If they had problems, they would ask him what they should do, and he would always give good advice. If there were things they wanted to know, he would tell them, and his answers were always the right ones."

What would you ask the blind man? What could he help you with?

Love My Books

Yesterday we had a very successful Love My Books Cafe in Year 1.

We introduced the website: www.lovemybooks.co.uk. It's full of free resources for parents to support them when reading with their children. We especially loved the videos on the website where the children can listen to the stories and the fantastic activities to go alongside each book to make reading FUN! 

Some highlights:

"I got facepaint on my hand and made a mask"

"I make a book with mummy. She did good drawing"

 Let us know what activities you try at home! 

"When I got home I went on Love My Books and I watched 'Shhh We Have a Plan.' I liked listening to the story at home, it was funny when he tried to catch the bird!"  

The Blind Man and the Hunter

This half term Year 1 will be basing their literacy work around the traditional West African tale The Blind Man and the Hunter. 

What do you know about the character of the Blind Man?

Brixton Library

Brixton Library (http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/places/brixton-library)

If you have a free library card you can check out 20 books at a time! 

Year 1 have borrowed some great news books from Brixton Library this week.

What book did you choose to borrow?

Steven Seagull Action Hero Trip Review

This a blog post written by Tanisha and Jevaunte, 

"We went to see Ely to chek the book so we kood look at the paeges and reed all of the books and it is vere vere vere vere good and I like this book" Jevaunte

"Yesterday we went on our trip. We drew Steaven the seagle and we were sitting on the confortable chairs. That Ely read the book Steaven seagle." Tanisha

Meet the Author - Elys Dolan

Yesterday we went to Dulwich picture Galley to hear Elys Dolan read her new book Steven Seagull Action Hero. We loved listening to her story about one seagull cop's mission to clean up Beach City. She drew some illustrations live infront of us and even taught us how to draw Steven Seagull. We asked lots of questions and she signed our class copy of Steven Seagull Action Hero. 

What question did you ask Elys?

My Holiday Reading

This Easter I went to Wales and did lots of reading. In this photo I am reading "A Little Guide to Gardening" by Jo Elworthy to get some tips of what to plant in Year 1's garden now it is Spring. 

I am especially looking forward to planting some herbs as they can be used to make our food more tasty. 

What have you been reading this Easter?

Tea with Mrs Tredegar

Dear Mrs Tredegar, 

Please come to our tea party. There will be cucumber sandwiches and Maderia cake! We can drink lime cordial and ask each other lots of questions about your Green Ship. Please come! From Year 1

What questions did you ask Mrs Tredegar?

What was your favourite part of the tea party?

World Book Day Tomorrow

We are beyond excited in Year 1 that it's 

World Book Day tomorrow. 

We're going to have lots of visitors in the afternoon. They are going to read and talk about their favourite books. 

What's your favourite book? 

Quentin Blake

Our key text this term, The Green Ship,  is by the author and illustrator Quentin Blake.

Here is a video of Quentin Blake talking 

about the power of illustration.

My favourite bit in the video was when he showed us all the different covers that he made for the Green Ship. 

Which bit was your favourite?

Writing workshops on the Green Ship

We have been redrafting and improving our writing on Quentin Blake's book the Green Ship this week in our writing conferences.

Working with an adult we improved our spelling and worked on improving our writing by using our writing targets. We even  re-drafted some key sentences to make our writing even more fantastic.

 What writing target have you been working on?

The Green Ship: I think....

The Green Ship

Today we looked at the front cover and blurb of our new book The Green Ship. 

"I think the children will go inside the green ship and have a picnic" 

"I wonder how I could be an explorer"

"I see green leaves because there are lots of trees" 

"I wonder where the man who owns the boat lives?" 

What questions do you have about book? 

The Green Ship

Next half term we'll be reading The Green Ship by Quentin Blake.

What do you think it's going to be about?

What are your first impressions of the book having looked at the front cover?

Superworm saves the day

We have been creating our own super hero worms in English this week. Superworm has come to the rescue and saved the other worms from the terrifying Badger.  

We designed our own Superworms and then made them into puppets. We used our puppets to act out our own superhero story. Stay tuned to see our stories on our Superworm comic strips next week.

What would your Superworm do?

Michael Rosen's Poetry

We love reading Michael Rosen's poetry in Year 1. His poems are sometimes very funny or sometimes a bit silly but always great to listen to. 


Here are some videos of him performing some of his poems from his book A Great Big Cuddle. 

Click here to watch the videos

Traction Man is here

Exciting news. Year 1 have started reading their next key text... Traction Man.

What questions would you like to ask Traction Man?

Re-telling the Smartest Giant in Town

This weeks homework is to tell the story of the Smartest Giant in Town to our adults at home. Lots of fantastic re-tellings have been pinging into my inbox this weekend.

Here's one of my favourites!

Peer Assessment

We have been learning how to be a critical audience in Year 1. This week we worked on our peer assessment skills by telling our friends what we liked about their George the smartest giant in town performances. We also told them what they could consider doing next time to make their performances even better. 

What advice would you give to the children in the video?