Welcome back to Summer term!
In our reading lesson, we looked at our new book for this half term – ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Saved The Planet’ by Kate Pankhurst. The children had some great suggestions for women they thought might appear in the book, including Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks and Taylor Swift (?!). We discussed what qualities women might have to be ‘fantastically great’.
We spent time clarifying some vocabulary that connected with the women that feature in the book then used echo reading to practice some multi-syllabic words from the book’s glossary. We confirmed how many syllables each word contained as well as using the glossary to answer some questions relevant to the book.
Next lesson, we will be learning about Isatou Ceesay, who helped to solve the problem of plastic pollution in her community. To prepare for this, children read a text entitled ‘The Problem with Plastic’ and practiced reading aloud with an awareness of phrases, clauses and sentence boundaries to develop a smooth rhythm. There was some lovely, fluent reading heard around the room. Finally, children summarised each paragraph in one sentence to create a short summary of the whole text.
We have provided the children with new reading logs so they can record when they are reading at home. Please encourage your child to read as much as possible at home as it has a huge benefit to all areas of the curriculum.
Have a lovely weekend,
Housman team.
