Autumn 2024
Alnwick Beach School Day - A Festive Stickman Adventure
What an adventure for our winter themed beach day and our first as Alnwick Castle Class.
Along the way we spotted things including some plants, lots of ducks like eider ducks which we identified the male and female. We had to negotiate a hedge cutter so the kind tractor man let us passed and it got us thinking about all the jobs on the farm at this time of year now that harvest is over. We then made it to the woods where we searched, collected and even accessorised our own stickman! We then reminded ourselves about the first part of the story and then made our own Stickman nest in our groups.
Next we went to the beach and continued our stickman adventure by making our stickman sandcastle. We used our imaginations to retell the story using natural materials linking real life objects and wildlife to the text. The collaboration and team work was wonderful to see and hear, we even did a show and tell feedback session so everyone had to present what they had made. Everyone worked really hard so we had a treat of a playing at the play park as a reward. Then back at school we recalled the story and made bird feeders.
A very special day and everyone admired their super listening and team work
Thank you so much to those that attended tonight's Reading Meeting.
Attached is the presentation and as part of the presentation there are links to watch (see below) - these are aimed at parents so take it step by step about the Read Write Inc (developed by Ruth Miskin) Process (the reading scheme we follow). So please have a look at these and if you have any questions please just ask.
RWInc Parent Overview about phonics = https://www.youtube.com/
How to say all the sounds – remember pure sounds only - watch out for the schwar (adding an 'uh' after the sound)!!
= https://www.youtube.com/
How to help teaching to blend the sounds - parent and child, being able to do hear the sounds, not just read them is so important =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
At this point, it is focusing on the simple steps like having fun with sounds (like hearing the sounds for 'I Spy' and playing with rhyming words), enriching vocabulary and most importantly using your imagination and creativity with story telling so the children keep developing a LOVE of reading.
Once we begin the sounds then it is just keeping it little and often to practise recognising the sounds. This can be done with games like 'swat the sound', snap and going on a sound hunt. Keeping it as practical, visual, active and as fun as possible to make it memorable.
To begin with we will send picture books home, then blending books and then reading books but keep practising your sounds so your child becomes so confident and fluent.
We will be reading or practising with our sounds every single day as part of our daily routine but we will not be recoding it in their reading record. That is there for you to record each time you read a school book (hopefully at least three reads a week) and so we can check how things are going at home for you.
In the meantime, have fun, keep that love of reading for them with bedtime stories and library books and thank you for the support.