Reading Detectives in Walnut Class

Walnut Class have been spending the last few Monday afternoons becoming Reading Detectives!  We complete four different activities over the afternoon and we have all been really enjoying it!

The children work in their reading groups: Gruffalos, Hermiones, BFGS and Elmers.  Each group reads with Mrs Turner, this week we were reading winter poetry.  We practise our reading, talk about what we have read, how we feel about it and hunt for interesting words.  Today in our poems we looked for rhyming words and describing words that made us feel a certain way.

After we have read with Mrs Turner, we complete independent reading detectives activities about what we have just read.  Today we were thinking a lot about the pictures in our head when we read something.

We also work with Mrs Hatcher in the library playing phonics and word games.  Today some of us practised tricky words, some of us played a split digraph game (children can you tell your grown ups what a split digraph is?) and some of us played word jumbles (anagrams).

We also spend some time practising our joined up handwriting.

Each activity takes around 25 minutes, a very busy Monday afternoon!