Today, we started our grammar sessions before we start our next piece of writing. One of our activities was to note down things we could notice in a passage of writing. It was great to see that we could identify lots of different features.
On Friday Crew MI thought about Easter and what it means to Christians and what it means to us personally. We created an anchor chart all about Easter then put our ideas into a whole crew acrostic poem. We then created our own poems to go inside our Easter cards that we have created during our latest art slice 🙂 We are looking forward to taking these home and sharing with our families.
MI are really enjoying publishing their non chronological reports on tigers! They are loving seeing their writing come to life whilst adding their own title, sub headings and pictures to their work. We can’t wait to see them all completed later in the week 🙂
In our writing lesson today, we had the opportunity to use our new dictionaries and thesauruses when editing and redrafting our work. First, we used our target grids to help us unpick the targets we need to work on and then we collaboratively chotted a model redraft. We then had a go at redrafting independently.
When we got in from break today we heard our classroom door make a strange noise, we had been delivered a newspaper that told us the great explorer (Tom’s Dad) had gone missing in North Pole.
We decided that we wanted to help, so we all wrote our own newspaper describing what Tom’s Dad looked like and where he had gone missing. We then told the rest of the school about this by posting it under their classroom doors.
In today’s experience lesson we tried to see if we could find where penguin was because he was feeling lonely and sad. Luckily using our telescopes we managed to find him rowing in an umbrella!
After finishing our balanced arguments, we have been preparing for our independent writing. Today we carried on the excellent work in PE by enjoying some argument tennis to help us to think of ways that we can share our opinions on a range of topics. We also discussed the importance of the planning process in becoming writers and are looking forward to planning our own balanced arguments tomorrow to help us really show off our writing skills!
This morning, we have completed our planning in preparation for writing the rest of the week. This allowed us to collect some good vocabulary, fronted adverbial and ideas so we have a good starting point for writing tomorrow.
In our writing lesson today we have been ordering pictures from the Ice Age clip, to help us order and sort our writing. This is preparation for our independent write next week.
Today we critiqued a crew members habitat section of their non chronological report. We thought about sentences where target grids had been used then we unpicked and redrafted sentences that needed to be better. We all worked well in mini crews to do this before giving feedback to the whole crew. We then applied what we had learnt to our own work, editing and redrafting our own sentences. We are getting much more confident in this part of the writing sequence.
