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Having learned the signifiers so that we could orally retell the story of ‘The King Who Banned The Dark’ we used our phonic knowledge and writing skills to write the story too. These students demonstrated amazing resilience whilst working this week and the smiles on their faces say it all, well done boys!
Year 2’s new Writing text this term is The King Who Banned the Dark. This week, the children have learned the signifiers for the story, created story maps and acted in the role of the king!
We enjoyed using Tales Toolkit, with the help of visuals and objects, to retell the story of The Gruffalo’s Child.
In our story we included characters, a setting, a problem and a solution.
We created a trail in the snow to follow the path of The Grufallo’s Child, using a potato print representing paw prints.
We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening skills during our new story of The Gruffalo’s Child.
We showed a great interest in pictures following them with our eye gaze.
Some of us even imitated phrases from the story. Aha! Oho!
In today’s English lesson, Year 5 studied a range of letters of complaint. We analysed the grammatical and structural features of a letter and then worked in partners to identify these features. We worked together amazingly and are now much more confident when finding features of a letter.
Today we have started to look at the features of Cinquain poetry and how it differs from other poetry that we have looked at. We have started to create our own Cinquain poems about the beach.
We have had the best time playing with our large cardboard boxes.
We have used our imagination by making dens, houses, garages, beds, played games e.g. peek-a-boo but most of all we have enjoyed using them as our quiet reading spaces.
We have taken lots of books in to our boxes making our own little personal library.
Peek – a – boo!!!!!!!!
To finish our story ‘You must bring a hat!’ we had the best afternoon celebrating with our very own HARTY (hat-party!)
We made our own invites, lists for party food and prepared our own party sandwiches! We had a fabulous afternoon with party games, dancing, singing and a HAT CONGA!!!
