Some beaming faces today in MI 🙂 Children completed their final draft of their newspaper reports and felt such pride when this was finished. Such fantastic writing! Even though we found the piece extremely challenging, MI showed such determination and resilience throughout the piece.
Crew Godley have been working hard to produce beautiful work, thinking carefully about pencil grip, posture, writing on the line and finger spaces.
Today we continued to write our newspaper reports where we used some direct speech to quote what the victims wife would have said about the events that had happened. We used the knowledge we had gained in our grammar lesson earlier in the morning to write our quotes effectively, remembering all the features of speech.
In Crew Welburn, we have been looking at the story of Jack and the Beanstalk! The children have loved using the props to re-tell the story, and have used these alongside the book to draw a story map today. The children used their maps to re-tell the story using some of our new words. I was very impressed with the detail that they could remember! Below you can see some examples of work from Aubree, Penelope and Jasper who were all very proud of their achievements…🌟
Today we started to unpick and explore newspaper articles. We discussed the purpose of newspaper articles, reliability and what we find in them. After we had a secure understanding of the features, we worked in mini crews to read a selection of articles around the room. We found the different features then reported back our findings to the whole crew. From here we watched a clip called ’Roads End.’ This is the stimulus we will use for our own newspaper report. We found the clip very intriguing and it allowed us to discuss lots of different ideas. We then unpicked a model text before thinking specifically about headlines. We finished our lessons today by creating our own! There was some great use of alliteration 🙂
Our crew have been following instructions in our writing experience lessons to create artwork to supplement their writing. We listened carefully how to draw our own cat. The cat was trying to catch the egg! But the egg shouted……. We can’t wait to write about it! Dom was our writing superstar the previous lesson when the dog chased the egg!
In writing, we have started to prepare ourselves for our independent write by starting to generate ideas to support us on writing days.
We used scenarios similar to what we would be writing about to help us relate to the event and really put us into the moment.
Some fantastic discussions and freeze frames by the crew. I love how Jack is contemplating how to ’work around the system’
Today in Crew Marsh we trecked through the jungle to a river, where we met a crocodile. The crocodile was feeling very hungry!!
Last week, we started to write our plot points which were a recount/ description of Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech. It has been lovely seeing the children’s writing styles and how they’ve been ale to meet their targets.
We have been having a huge focus on productivity as we get the children prepared for when they enter Year 6, however, we’ve talked that yes, we want more writing but it still needs to be of a high quality. This is one such example of where they have produced more but kept the quality in place. This work also screams beautiful work which we have shared in crew as the standard we are aiming for.
Massive Well done to Scarlett for this beautiful piece of writing!
