Roman Road Primary School
September 15, 2008
Writing Instructions in Year 2
Today in Year 2, we have been making cheese and tomato sandwiches.
This is all part of our Literacy topic on writing instructions. Over the past two weeks, we have followed instructions to make jam and banana sandwiches for Miss Allen's friend and we have also made split-pin gingerbread men. We have read and ordered instructions and this week, we are going to write instructions. Can you remember some of the features of instructions? You need to include a title and bullet points. Also, you need to make sure you write each numbered point in order. Can you find any examples of instructions at home? Maybe you can bring a recipe into school.
This week we are going to make fairy cakes...pictures to follow!
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April 2, 2008
Mrs Miller visits Year One
Did you know Mrs Miller went to Roman Road Primary school when she was little? She visited Year One this week to talk to us all about her time at Roman Road primary school.
We have been learning all about schools in the past. We thought of three questions each we would ask Mrs Miller. We wrote them down and even used question marks. On Tuesday after lunch Mrs Miller came to visit.
We were all ready with our questions. She was very impressed with them. Some of the questions we asked were:
1 Did you ever get the cane?
2 Did you have a register?
3 What were your teachers called?
4 Did you use paper towels?
5 Did you write on chalk boards?
6 What did you play with?
7 Did you do Read Write Inc?
8 Did you do swimming lessons on the floor?
9 What did you wear?
10 What lessons did you like?
Mrs Miller answered all of our questions. Then she showed us some of the games she played at school. They were:
Cannonball
Pick up sticks
Chucks
Spinning Top
2 and 3 Baller
Lacky Bands
We are getting so good at knowing all about schools in the past and hopefully we will learn a little more about them in the Summer when we go on a school trip.
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March 25, 2008
Celebrating success in Literacy!
We love reading and spelling!
All of the infants in Roman road are working on reading and spelling their 300 key words. We learn them as part of our homework. It is very tricky, but our teachers have made it easier for us by splitting the words into groups. We have Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards.
Every time we achieve and award, we receive a certificate in whole school celebration assembly on Friday.
We all love achieving our awards...they are FAB!!!
by Miss Allen
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Book Week
The children throughly enjoyed dressing up as under the sea characters. I really enjoyed being a mermaid for the day! We had lots of fun writing poems, completing wordsearches and taking part in a colouring in competition judged by Miss Parkin. On the Friday the children had even more fun with the Fab Food Fun House!
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February 1, 2008
Mrs Grinlings Sandwiches
In Year one we have been giving instructions at how to make a sandwich.
First we washed our hands.
We got two slices of bread and buttered it.
Then we added some ham or turkey.
After that we cut the bread with a knife.
Finally we ate it. Yum, yum!
We are sure Mrs Grinling would have been very proud of our tasty sandwiches.
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January 23, 2008
Retelling a story
We have been retelling the story of the Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.
After reading the story and enoying playing in the role play area, we got to work writing the story using the main points. We amazed ourselves and shocked Mrs Inkster and Mrs Cairns at how fantastic our work turned out to be. We have displayed them in the classroom for all to see, but we hope you enjoy reading these two excellent stories now. Well done Paige and Ellen!
Uploaded by Mrs Inkster
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Read Write Inc
Across Key Stage One and Year 3 we are using a great new reading and writing scheme.
Every day we are reading and writing with our partners and teaching sticks.
We start the day by learning a new phoneme - this is the sound made by a letter or group of letters.
We then move onto our speed sounds - this is practising reading every phoneme we have learnt so far at speed.
Then we work out the green words with our partner - these are the words that can be blended.
Red words follow - these are words that have grotty graphemes and can't be sounded out.
Next we read the book using a teaching stick to point to the words. We help each other lots.
Finally we concentrate on using the phonemes and our knowledge of the book to complete writing tasks.
All of our teachers are so impressed with our progress and we show our achievements with lots of celebrations. Some of our celebratios are King Kong, marshmallow clap, L'oreal, Elvis, lorry driver and many more. Why not ask for a demonstration we would love to show you and share our success?
To find out more aout Read Write Inc click on the link below.
www.readwriteinc.com/page12.html
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January 15, 2008
Blends in Spelling
A good program blending clusters of letters to make words can be found by clicking on the link below.
Aimed at upper infants and lower juniors.
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December 3, 2007
Home Reading Books
Each child in school should have their own home reading book. Parents or carers need to listen to their child read and ask them questions about the what has been read.
Remember, you should be reading for at least ten minutes a day!!!
Please also remember, that we can't change your books unless you bring them in.
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Jack and the Beanstalk Comes To School
We have been watching Jack and the Beanstalk.
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November 29, 2007
Jack and the Beanstalk
In school on Monday 3rd December.
S and P Theatre Productions are coming to Roman Road on Monday 3rd December 2007. We look forward to seeing them back in our school and are eagerly awaiting their performance of Jack and the Beanstalk.
An update on the performance will follow soon.
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Guided Reading
Why are we really enjoying reading in Year One?
In Year One we read in partners. We have great fun and are able to help each other with our words. How do we do it?
First we practise our speed sounds - this is all of the phonemes we have learnt. We need to try and recognise them on sight.
Then we build up our green words. These are words that can be sounded out. We do this by Fred talk.
Next we look at the red words. Red words are tricky words and cannot be sounded out and you just need to be able to know them.
Then we read the book. We take turns reading a page each, helping each other if we get stuck. We have special teaching sticks that we use to point to the words, it helps us not to lose our place.
Finally we practise our speed words. These are the words that could be found in the story. It's a race who can read them all the fastest!!!
We are getting so good at our reading everyone is impressed.
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November 4, 2007
What is Fred talk?
This year in Key Stage One, each class has a special visitor called Fred. Fred has come to help with our reading. Unfortunately Fred can only speak in sounds and so it is the children's job to help him understand by saying the words. For example Fred may say c-a-t and the children say cat. This is helping the chidlren to blend words from the sounds they are learning. When reading at home with your child you can ask them to Fred talk the word and then say the word if they are stuck. Remember the more you practise reading the easier it gets!
Photos of Year 1 Fred are to follow.
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November 2, 2007
Year 2 writing
Miss Allen says "I'm tickled pink!"
In Year 2 we are trying something new linked with assessment for learning. Miss Allen highlights our work with pink if she is tickled pink with our work. If she sees something that we can improve, she highlights it in green. This means 'grow green' and we try to improve on these bits of our work. Look at the picture. Miss Allen marked our Halloween stories about 'The Three Little Witches' using 'TICKLED PINK' and 'GROW GREEN'.
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Poetry
Poetry Poetry Poetry!
We have been looking at shape poems this week in literacy. We have been looking at the impact of the presentation and picking out rhyming and non rhyming words. Next week we will be writing our own monster shape poems!
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Foundation Stage
In a dark dark town there was a dark dark house. In the dark dark house there was a dark dark cellar. In the dark dark cellar some skeletons lived. . .
We have been doing lots of activities based on the story 'Funny Bones' by Janet and Alan Albergh. In our gluing area we fastened bones together to make some scary skeletons!
We painted the big skeleton in our art area and in ICT we made pictures on 'Fresco' of the characters. In the Reception classroom we are making a big 'Funny Bones' display. Come and have a look! If you dare to, you could come inside our 'Dark dark cellar' too! Don't be scared!
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November 1, 2007
Magic Sandwiches
In Year 2 we have been making jam and banana sandwiches for our magic dragon Denzel's party.
We really enjoyed making them. After that we wrote instructions for making a sandwich. We made sure that we included bossy verbs and gave plenty of detail about how we made our sandwich. We also included bullet points, list of equipment and ingredients and numbered steps.
Photos to follow soon.
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October 31, 2007
Writing Labels and Captions
In the first half term we promised photos of our label work. Well here they are!
In this photo we can see that the P.E. cupbaord has no label. Year 1 soon sorted that out.
We have been exploring how labels, captions and signs give us important information.
First we went for a walk around school and found lots of places with labels. Examples were Key Stage One doors - please keep doors closed, Mrs Jones room - Deputy Headteacher and our own classroom had lots of labels and signs giving important information.
Next we found four areas that did not have a label and we took photographs. Mrs Inkster made a power point presentation using the photographs and in guided writing we wrote captions telling people what the photograph was of and what it was used for. Finally, we worked in pairs and wrote our own captions independently. Mrs Inkster was extremely pleased with the results.
In the photo below we found that the fire alarm did not have a label but it was important we all knew what and where it was in case of an emergency.
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October 29, 2007
Signs in Year 1
In Year 1 this half term we have spent time looking at labels, captions and also signs. We did a lot of work on the highway code and found out that red triangles were signs giving a warning and red circles were signs giving an order.
In class we worked in groups and came up with some fantastic ideas for Class Codes using red triangles and red circles. Mrs Inkster's favourite is the triangle with a picture of her in it. Green group thought of the warning "Mrs Inkster is watching." We have displayed our Class codes in the classroom for everyone to see. We hope you like them too.
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March 9, 2007
All the School enjoy Book Day
Today all of Roman Road were dressing up as book characters and after lunch year 6 held a fun afternoon including face painting, where's the white rabbit and lots more.
More to come.
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March 2, 2007
Bookweek is Coming
Book Week is the week beginning 5th March ! Many exciting things are going to be happening at Roman Road, which have mainly been organised by the Year 6 class as their enterprise project. We are having 2 competitions for prizes - making a bookmark and producing a piece of work about a book. The best pieces of work produced in each Key Stage will receive a gold reader award! The bookfair is in school all week and we are having a mammoth sponsored readathon. Our sponsored event last year raised a massive £1200 for the school! WOW! On the Friday of Bookweek, we are all dressing up as characters from books - even the teachers! We are also enjoying a fun afternoon in the hall with lots of books to buy and games to play. We are going to have a FAB time!
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March 9, 2006
Theatre Company in School
We are enjoying watching a theatre company production based around Charles Dickens. We are finding out about his books and life in Victorian times.
This is part of our bookweek which is going on in school.
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February 13, 2006
Bookweek Promotion
A fantastic opportunity to boost reading in Roman Road
Roman Road Primary School is hosting a bookweek 6th - 10th March. During this exciting week, we are having a bookfair in school where children and parents can purchase the latest books about all subjects. But we're not stopping there! The whole school is getting involved in a sponsored spell event in order to raise further funds for Roman Road. All children and staff are dressing up for a day as book characters and having a fun afternoon which will be organised by Year 6. A theatre company is visiting school to perform for all children. Many competitions will also happen during that week, including a story writing and handwriting competition. Children will join with other classes to partake in paired reading. This event will be exciting and will involve all children and staff as well as including parents.
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