Today was our final PVPG lesson and I was extremely impressed by how much the children have learnt and remembered from Year 2. It can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in writing this year!
PVPG
Category : Writing in Action
Squiggle While You Wiggle!
This week crew Frost have been introduced to the early writing programme Squiggle While You Wiggle, this programme offers the first steps to build their fine and gross motor movements. The programme also encourages mark making with meaning whilst incorporating dance, uses of materials, and just lots of fun! We can not wait to see what fine motor skills will develop over the next few weeks.
Final product celebrations in MT
Today we shared our final product with each other. We all shared our paragraph of writing in mini crews along with our art work. We are all so proud of what we have achieved!
Story Map
This week the children have been creating story maps about the gingerbread man, from this they have created their own versions how the gingerbread man crossed the river “he could use a surf board” and “he could use a jet pack”. We turned these ideas into drawings and sentences remembering our capital letters, finger spaces, and full stops.
Writing in MT
We are currently writing two independent plot points to apply what we have been taught. We are doing a great job 🙂
Handwriting practise in MT
MT busy working on their letter formation 🙂
Phonics.
This week the children have been practicing their blending and letter formation. The children loved the different textures and forming letters with different mediums.
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!