In preparation for our next plot point, we were delighted to spend a lesson tasting different types of sweets. These sweets would trigger different taste buds on our tongue and allow us to create a bank of vocabulary that will support our writing. Lots of funny faces pulled especially with the sour and fizzy sweets.
In writing today the children had to taste some sweets and then describe what they looked, taste and touched like
In writing today we started with chotting round the picture using adjectives
This week, we have started writing diary entries based on our anchor text, Pig Heart Boy. We’ve enjoyed the experience days. To help us understand the main character, Cam, we acted out some freeze frames from the book and tried to guess which part of the story each group had chosen.
Following this, we were in a position to start our writing. To help build our ideas, we completed a silent conversation so we could “all talk at once” and show our creative side! It’s much easier writing when we can magpie the best ideas.
All this planning opportunity has really helped us with our first plot point and we enjoyed being able to share what we’d written with our friends. Keep an eye out for our published work when we finish them!
Today we wrote the first chunk of our first plot point. We are creating our own narrative using a clip for our stimulus. Today we used our chotting from last week to help us to create a shared write on our character. We described Tadeo Jone’s appearance and personality whilst using expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and similes. We are excited to move onto the setting of our story 🙂 Some great work MI!
In writing today we sequences the photos in Charlie and the chocolate factory
In writing we did are grammar day 2 ready to start of writing on Charlie and the chocolate factory.
Today as part of our Experience Day for The Write Stuff, we swung through the tree, navigated the tall grass and spied the magical creatures. We had to keep our balance on the stepping stones and we were unsure what the ear aching noises from down below could be…
In our writing lesson today, we first completed a silent conversation and chotted down notices, actions and feelings that we could see in the pictures from the film. We then watched the clip of Charlie and the Chocolate factory and chotted some amazing vocabulary we could use in our writing. We even used the thesaurus to uplevel this vocabulary. After that, we then put parts of the film in order of which they happened. We did have to watch the clip a few times to make sure we got them in the correct order but this was a great way to get to fully understand the writing journey we will be going on.
Today we started our new writing unit, a narrative using a clip from Literacy shed which we absolutely love! The clip is called ‘Tadeo Jones’ and links to our new expedition.
First of all we thought about what a narrative is and what features are included. We then found these features in an example narrative. Next we rewatched the clip thinking about what the character sees, hears, smells and feels at specific parts in the clip. We did some freeze framing for different parts of the story as well as thought bubbles to express ideas at different stages of the clip. We then worked in mini crews to chot our own ideas for our senses before feeding back to the whole crew.
We then moved onto think about the main character. We created a role on the wall thinking about Tadeo’s personality and appearance. Our debrief allowed us to reflect on the features of a narrative and we pop corned expanded noun phrases that we had built to describe the setting earlier.
