During our writing day, we have been unpicking some text to identify adverbs, prepositional phrases and subordinate clauses. We worked with our shoulder partner to find these and then created a bank of adverbials to support us in our writing.
We discussed that it was important that when selecting an adverbial for our writing that we are able to demonstrate how it would fit within the writing.
This week, Crew Mcloughlin have been busy writing their diary entry independently. They are writing from a 10 year olds girls perspective in 1963, who’s dad has made her attend Martin Luther Kings speech that morning. All children have thoroughly planned, used the learning environment to effectively support them and produced beautiful work in the process. I think this is our best writing yet and I cannot wait to share the final redrafts next week!
Today, we have started our writing unit for Case study 2 which will involve a setting description for the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King.
We have spent time today starting to use the lens to generate ideas for aspects we could write about and some ideas for figurative language. In our next lesson, we’ll be starting to put these ideas into complete sentences so we have had practice and opportunities to magpie from our peers.
I am so proud of how hard crew marsh worked in their independent writing. They used all of their phonic knowledge to help them 😃
Today we continued to plan our independent diary entry. We thought about the gold and green targets we had created and started to build some of the sentences we could use in our writing. We added these to post it notes which we will refer to when we start writing.
Some great writing in MI 🙂 Such positive attitudes shown throughout this piece of writing. I look forward to reading your final versions after you have edited and redrafted.
In our writing lesson today we generated a range of adjectives to describe the trees, grass and birds in our picture. We got to feel the grass, bark and twigs and listen to birds tweeting.
Last Friday was our first experience day of our new writing unit. We watched a clip of a girl who attended the Martin Luther King Jr’s speech. We reflected on what we had seen then built ideas from the clip using our senses and some of the writing lenses. We took part in a gallery walk to magpie ideas for our mini crew and praised each groups ideas. Finally, we built some figurative language based on what we will write about in plot point 1 of our setting descriptions.
Today we took part in a grammar day with a focus on cohesive devices. We firstly watched some clips looking at main clauses and subordinate clauses. We consolidated our knowledge through a variety of activities before building our own sentences using subordinating conjunctions within sentences and at the start of sentences. We worked with our partner well to move sentences around. During our afternoon session, we looked at adverbials and experimented with prepositional phrases. We unpicked a model of writing then finally built our own sentences using different adverbials and prepositional phrases. Here you can see some of our work as well as our anchor chart showing all the work we have built together. I can’t wait for you to get writing PP1.
We had lots of fun in Crew Welburn last week. We explored our provision areas, began working on our final product plant pots so that the base coats were dry, and began looking at how the numbers 4 and 5 are made within our maths lessons. We also had a go at challenging ourselves to independently make and write words using our phonics sounds! Miss Welburn was very impressed with our Fred talk and blending.
Y2 have loved sharing their writing about Stan and Mabel with the Y1’s. It was great to hear the children share their work proudly and they all read their work beautifully.
