In our writing lesson today, we have looked at different diary entries and discussed what features are included. We found that there are personal pronouns, time fronted adverbials, date, Dear Diary and it is written in past tense. We all worked incredibly hard to find these features in a Roman diary entry.
During our experience lesson, we had the opportunity to delve further into the daily life of a Roman soldier.
Crew Hamill and Crew Thompson came together to create a larger army unit and we used our role play skills to act out the main duties of a Roman soldier – a morning parade, a smaller march in mini crews to see who could march in unison the best and we split into groups to role play the individual Roman duties such as cleaning the latrines and guard duty! Can you guess from our pictures who was in charge of cleaning the latrines?!
Yesterday, the children had the opportunity to undertake some role play to help them understand the different aspects of a Roman soldiers life. This meant that were were able to provide more vocabulary when competing our chotting.
Today we have cleaned our dirty hospital, so the soldiers can get better. Florence Nightingale bossed all of us about in order to make sure everywhere was clean: we swept the floor, mopped the floor, scrubbed the tables, scrubbed the floor and tidied up all of the dirt. We did such a good job it was sparkling clean!
Yesterday we used all the chotting we created in our experience day on Monday to write our setting description on Thneedville, the town in the Lorax. We also learnt all about similes on Monday so we enjoyed applying our knowledge to our setting descriptions. We also applied everything we have been working on over the last few weeks, descriptive language and expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and some adverbials.
Today we thought about the Lorax’s appearance and personality. We worked in mini crews to build ideas together and then shared our ideas with the rest of the crew. We all had a go at writing an idea down and everyone shared one of their own. We will use our chotting after the holidays to create our own character description.
This term we have been writing about and reading Little Red Riding Hood. For our experience morning, in Crew Pashley, we made a witches potion ✨ for the Bad Wolf🐺 from Little Red Riding Hood. We discussed other ways to get rid of the wolf, like scaring him. The potion is used to get rid of the wolf when he eats grandma by turning him into a frog. We included lots of different things in our potions, including beads, pasta, rice and pom poms. We practised measuring out the potion into containers using a fake syringe, cups and the spoons.
We are trying really hard to get smart by showing beautiful work we are proud of. We continue to work on our handwriting every day.
Today MI started their next writing unit, setting and character descriptions around The Lorax. First we started watching the film and thought about how it links to our guiding question. We voiced our opinions on what we had seen and how it made us feel. We then re watched the song at the beginning of the film and thought about the lyrics. We looked closer at the pictures within the clip and used these to think about whether Thneedville is a good place to live. We then moved onto looking at what similes are, using examples to make similes accurate. From here we used different pictures of Thneedville to chot descriptive language and similes. We used the notice lense to support us. We then unpicked different setting descriptions thinking about the features used.
