Learning Objective: To spell words with alternative spellings of graphemes.

English

Learning Objective: To understand what you are reading including non-fiction texts

Here is a picture of the front cover of the book I have been reading to you. Well done to Thomas who got it correct. I was very impressed with everyone else’s guess though. Well done! Since September, we have been practising predicting and understanding that the title of the book links to what the story is about and I can see you are all getting so much better at it.

When we first looked at this story, I asked you what you know about pumpkins and lots of you said that we carve them for Halloween. In America, they use pumpkins for another celebration. It is a similar time of year to Halloween, in the autumn.

Read the information below about the American celebration and answer the questions.