This week the children have been practicing their blending and letter formation. The children loved the different textures and forming letters with different mediums.
Phonics.
Category : Writing in Action
Chotting in MT
Today we worked really hard on an extended activate where we recapped adjectives and expanded noun phrases. We linked our work to some of the pictures we are using throughout our plot points. The chotting part of our session allowed us to build ideas around the notice and hearing lense along with applying our knowledge of adjectives and expanded noun phrases. These ideas supported our shared writing then we were able to apply some of our ideas to our own writing. We are really loving our new writing unit and are excited to finish our first plot point tomorrow.
Experience day in MT
Today we started our next writing unit- a 3rd person narrative using a picture book called ‘Flood’. After exploring the front cover and blurb, we took part in a silent conversation where we explored different pictures from the story. We used the notice, feelings and action lenses to note down our ideas. After sharing these in mini crews and with the whole crew, we then used our inference skills further to tell the story from the book using the pictures. We all showed lots of empathy towards the characters in the story and were shocked by the devastating consequences of flooding. We then worked in mini crews where we watched a series of clips to build further background knowledge on floods. We thought about what floods are, why they happen, the damage they cause, why they are dangerous and how they affect peoples lives. Finally we explored a model text, exploring the features we had discussed earlier in the lesson. We used our narrative checklist to find the features and we discussed their purpose. We really loved exploring the picture book and are all looking forward to creating our own stories!
Bob’s packed lunch box
For our next plot point we drew and labelled what we thought Bob the astronaut would have in his packed lunch.
There were lots of food guesses!
Cleaning up like Bob!
Today we experienced cleaning our planet just like Bob cleans the Moon in our book Man on the Moon! Great teamwork CrewRobson!
Man on the moon
Today we started learning about our new book – The Man on the moon. We woke up at 6am and had a cup of tea and toast for breakfast before cycling to the rocket launch pad.
Feature Finding
Today, Crew Hamill had their second experience lesson in which they were identifying the features of a non-chronological report. We worked as a crew to look at an example report, sharing ideas about what we noticed – the title, paragraphs and pictures etc. We then looked at a ‘non-chronological report checklist’ and used this to identify further features such as subheadings and an introduction. Once we were comfortable that we understood the features, we worked in pairs to organise a non-chronological report that had been jumbled up. We had to work out which subheading matched which paragraph, identify the title, introduction and conclusion, and then figure out which order we would put the information in before deciding where the pictures would go. Once we had done this, we labelled each of the features and explained why they were important. To consolidate our learning, we played ‘checklist challenge’ in which we had 3 minutes to write down as many features as we could remember before seeing who had remembered the most!
Writing in MT
We are working hard on our information texts in Crew MT. We are really focusing on conjunctions and adverbials along with using our knowledge on volcanoes to compose our writing.
Recounts in MT
We have enjoyed writing a recount linking to our field work last week to Magna! Some great work MT 🙂
The King’s Crown
Today in our writing lesson we listened to the story ‘The Queen’s Hat’ by Steve Arnold.
We enjoyed the story and then talked about how Queen Elizabeth sadly passed away and now we have a King. We then became illustrators to design a front cover for our new story that we will write over the next three weeks. Everyone worked hard and showed resilience, even when faced with challenges.
Crew Robson presents – The King’s Crown!
