Pre writing shapes
Today we practiced our pre writing shapes. This will help us to develop our writing skills and helps to ensure we know how to hold our pencil properly. We love writing in reception!
Feature Finding
We were excited today to use our yellow highlighters in Writing! We were on the hunt for features we would find in a Narrative. We learned about using cliffhangers for suspense and dialogue to show what they characters were saying. After searching we made our own writing checklist which we will…
Super setting descriptions
Sharks class identified features of setting descriptions by text marking and annotating many WAGOLLs before creating our own checklist of an effective setting description.
Pre-Writing Shapes ✏
Today we showed Miss Mayer how we hold our pencils and how many of the pre-writing shapes we can complete. This is something we will be working on over the year as it will help us in so many ways. When colouring we will learn new types of lines to represent objects. people and animals and it will…
Drawing Time!
We loved free colouring today! We could choose to draw anything we wanted. Miss Mayer was super impressed with how many colours we knew and how we could communicate our interests. We looked at what hand the crayons felt comfortable in and how we correctly hold a pencil/crayon.
Well done…
Persuasive Letter
This week in writing, we have been reading and finding features of persuasive letters ready to write our own letter next week.
Role on the wall
In preparation for our last piece of writing, a journalistic report, we brainstormed all we knew about a key eyewitness in the story of ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’.
Great grammar skills!
Year 5 Dolphins have revisited their homophone knowledge in their grammar lesson today. It was lovely to see how this skill has improved since we last investigated it!
Transition day in Year 5
Stingrays have become Dolphins today! We have been working hard with a creative piece of writing based on a music video about a girl and her pet giraffe. We have created our own vocabulary word bank with some adventurous adjectives and adverbs. We have enjoyed reading the stories and we look…
Planning for writing
Year 6 have been planning a formal letter. Sharks will be writing as Ayesha, the protagonist from our class text 'Oranges in No-Man's Land', attempting to persuade Dr Leila to provide medicine for her sick Grandma. The children have considered the main plot and shown their understanding in…
Child Labour Argument
Today we have begun writing our opening drafts for a discursive argument on whether child labour should be allowed, this links in with our class text of Holes in which the children are forced to work everyday! Our main focus today is relative clauses but it’s fantastic to see the children working…
Creating a group story map
In our writing sessions this week, we have been planning our independent write based on our story Cliffhanger. We demonstrated excellent teamwork when we created group story maps of Tim’s experience in the obstacle race. We shared our maps and retold the story in detail.