Our buddy class is Mrs. Freebairn’s Year 4 class.
We love working and learning with them each week.
On alternate Fridays we share learning activities together. In our first session
our Buddies interviewed us so we could get to know each other. We have also shared
stories and worked on Harmony Day activities.
3 or 4 mornings each week a group of our Buddies visit us to work together on reading.
It is great fun reading to our buddies. They are helping us learn our tricky words,
develop sounding out skills and other ways to work out new words, read with expression,
and talk about the stories to build our comprehension skills. They also help us choose
‘good fit’ books to read. The Buddies are building confidence in their reading skills
as they help us and have been trained in how to listen to reading as part of their learning.
They are also developing their comprehension skills as they discuss our books with us and
think of questions to ask about the stories.
