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In Year 5’s English lesson, this morning, we started our brand new unit ‘The Lighthouse’. Within our new unit, we began to piece the story together by creating our own Story Map. Our creations focused on the characters, plot, opening, build up, dilemma, resolution and ending. We had so much fun putting our knowledge into practice!
This week, Year 5 have started their English poetry unity on The Jabberwocky.
On Monday, we read the poem ‘The Jabberwocky’, which is a nonsense poem. We recapped poetic devices, such as rhyme, similes, metaphors, personification, imagery and alliteration. Then, we learned about a new poetic convention called portmanteau, which is were sounds from two words are blended together to form a new word. We identifies portmanteau words in The Jabberwocky poem and finally created our own portmanteau words.
On Wednesday, we reread the poem ‘The Jabberwocky’ which is a nonsense poem. In pairs, we then tried to decode the portmanteau and nonsense words so we could understand the storyline of the poem.
In English this week Year 1 have been looking at letters.
We discussed when and why people send and receive letters, before we discovered that ‘The Rainbow Fish’ had sent us a letter.
Year 1 were very excited to read the letter ‘The Rainbow Fish’ had sent. The letter asked us some questions and told us how the fish was doing after he had given all of his scales away.
Year 1 talked about the features letters contain.
We found out that letters can contain:
- an address
- a date
- dear
- a question
- information
- from
The children have had a fantastic morning at Bridgehead Woods. The children had lots of fun exploring the woods. We have been learning all about the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. Today we enjoyed changing the story to ‘We’re Going on a Bug Hunt. Please click on the link below to see!
