Reading

Our new unit We All Need Each Other will give us the chance to look at non fiction texts and make our own fact files, learning how to gather and interpret information for a specific purpose.

STORIES and POETRY - in our Sound All Around unit we will be looking at how we use sound in our voice and in our words to illustrate and describe our writing and speaking.

media type="youtube" key="qRT9MBiIrVM" height="390" width="640" We will be writing Sound Poems among others. These describe the sounds you hear and also where the sounds "take" you. You could ask these questions before you write...... --What does the sound call to mind? --How do you feel when they hear the sound?

--What does the sound seem to be "saying"?

[|Here is a link to a really fun Poetry for Kids website]

media type="custom" key="8216920"We are at the moment reading the book Charlotte's Web in class and everyone is enjoying it very much, even if some of us already know the story. Most of our class went to see the school production "Weave", that was based on the book. This all ties very nicely into our unit as we are seeing different representations of the same story.

We have been listening to some new stories in class - here is a link to the website. M[|ore stories to watch online] here at KOL bedtime stories

Listen to the song below which gives you a number of fun but good reasons why it is so good to read! Enjoy .....and sing along!!! media type="youtube" key="coSgckFoYmY" height="390" width="640"

LIGHT AND DARK We have been reading a lot of non fiction books about Light and Dark. We have been researching the questions that we want to find the answers to for our unit.

We have been reading stories or fiction books that have a theme about them of night or day, light and dark too.



<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Some of them you can hear again by listening to them right here! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Click on this excellent link for your child to listen to a number of actors reading stories for children:

[|Stories Online to listen to and watch]