Today we had the great pleasure of another ‘experience lesson’! This was due to us being able to welcome a visitor into our school called Kerry Poncia (a teacher at XP) who unfortunately had first hand experience of the floods in Fishlake (in 2019) and came to share her experience with us all.
We started the lesson by recapping our current book, ‘FLOOD’, and completed a ‘silent conversation’ listing the questions that we would ask the characters from the book. Such as, how did it feel when you had to leave your home? What was it like seeing your home ruined? Have you ever had to leave your home before? Etc. This then led us to then think of some questions that we could ask Kerry prior to her visit. We recorded these on a large sheet of paper ready for her presentation in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Kerry visited and she provided us with lots of information about floods to support us with our writing next week. It was a great afternoon and as you can see we were all hooked in by what she was saying! Mrs Elmer recorded lots of facts and emotive language so that we can use this word bank to further support our chotting and writing of plot points next week.
