Deforestation Debate
We enjoyed using the opinion starters to argue why deforestation is a bad idea. We were very impressed with how many facts we remembered from last week!
Feature Magpies
We started a new genre today, a persuasive letter. We looked at examples and found the features, discussing what they mean. We did a great job!
Finding the skills
Today we have begun our new writing journey to create a discursive argument, to begin we have spent the lesson looking at the structure of a discursive argument and how our Y5 skills can be used in one.
Greta and the Giants
We absolutely loved role playing our new story Greta and the Giants. We completed freeze frames from different parts in the story to make sure we knew the sequence before writing a retell.
Dazzling DADWAVERS!
Year 5 Dolphin class worked really hard in English this morning, planning their setting descriptions of Camp Green Lake (the setting of the book HOLES by Louis Sachar) using the DADWAVERS format. They used each sense to formulate a specific structure, that will really aid in their independent…
Planning for writing
Today, Year 6 have been planning their writing. The children will be producing a first person narrative as Ayesha, the protgaonist from our class text, ‘Oranges in No-Man’s Land’. They will be finishing the story, giving an alternative ending for how Ayesha manages to cross into enemy territory in…
Writing about Handa's Surprise
Today, we wrote sentences to describe what Handa is doing in the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We applied our Phase 3/4 phonics knowledge to spell, and are becoming much more confident with our use of finger spaces between words. We have also been practising the skills of using a capital letter and…
Marvellous magpies!
Year 5 Dolphins have worked really hard today, in sweltering heat, as magpies, extracting setting description features independently. We are clearly nearly year six ready!
Super Suspense and Terrifying Tension!
To enable our writing to have appropriate vocabulary within, we looked at how to use suspense and tension within narrative writing. We used skills such as show not tell, figurative language and a range of clause structures to build appropriate suspense and tension up within our writing.
Super summarising!
Year 5 Dolphins have used their reading VIPERS summarising skills this morning to help in their understanding of our new text this week.
A great day at Clip n Climb!
Year 3 visited Clip n Climb today and what a great time we had! We conquered all of the walls with many of us hitting the button at the very top! Some of us even reached number 10 on the drop slide before we slipped down into the balls at the bottom. Well done everyone! This experience will…
Dramatic drama!
Year five Dolphins really enjoyed role playing the lives of convicts at Camp Green Lake, the setting of our class text, 'Holes' by Louis Sachar today. Mrs Edwards was a very convincing prison warden!