A couple of weeks ago I (Miss Williams) went on a course to learn more about oral language. One of the things that I learnt , was how much children learn from listening to stories. They not only learn about the art of story telling, the impact of different tones and voices etc, but also to listen.
When Room 5 come in from lunch we lie down to listen to a story . I introduce a story, without showing the pictures, because I want to see what they come up with while they are listening, it also creates great conversations. When the story is finished we talk about what we saw in our head, characters we heard about, how the characters were feeling and what we thought they might look like - are they big,small, angry etc. The conversations after the story are just as important as listening to it as it gets students to recall what they heard and make suggestions based on the information given, and use the language in the story to create a character in their head.
The other day Mr Spicer came to visit Room 5 and took this photo of us all. Thanks Mr Spicer!
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