We have enjoyed writing a recount linking to our field work last week to Magna! Some great work MT 🙂
Recounts in MT
Category : Writing in Action
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!
Poetry Experience Day
To kick start our new writing unit on poetry, Crew Hamill have looked at lots of different examples of poetry, including a video of poet Micheal Rosen reciting his famous poem ‘Chocolate Cake’ (this made us all laugh a lot!) and a video of some Roald Dahl poems that have been turned into songs. We then worked in pairs to identify as many different features of poetry as we could, include rhyme, rhythm, line breaks, stanzas and personification.
Meeting Paddington
To hook into our new expedition we have been learning about Paddington Bear. We learnt that he came on a boat from darkest Peru to London and the family he left behind. We also learnt he loved marmalade sandwiches so we couldn’t resist trying some!
Mr Wolf and the turnip
To hook us into our new book we started with a feely bag to see what was in it and to help us to understand what a turnip is.
Independent Writing In Crew Hamill
Crew Hamill have worked extremely hard over the last few days to complete their independent write. We began with a recap of our grammar, ensuring we can still label the verb, subject and everything else in our sentences to ensure they are punctuated correctly. We then used a stimulus of a short film, Francis to create a descriptive piece of writing. We have chotted ideas together as a crew in order to complete a setting description of where Francis is as well as a character description of Francis herself. We have then used the resources available to us – word banks, chotting sheets and pictures – to write our descriptions.
Independent writing in MI
Today we continued with our independent narrative linking to all our work on electricity.
Experimenting with Fronted Adverbials
This week we’ve been mastering the art of fronted adverbials. By adding words and phrases at the beginning of our sentences, we’ve learned how to describe when, where, or how something happens. From ‘Later that evening’ to ‘He quickly dashed,’ we are trying to make our writing more exciting and descriptive.
A new week, a new book!
To hook us into our new book we used our sense of touch. Mrs Robson allowed us to put our hand into the box and see what we could feel. This was our first clue to our new book. We came up with lots of adjectives to describe what we felt.
Next we completed a jigsaw of the front cover to reveal the name of the new book. We used our prediction skills and made links to books we already knew such as Little Red Riding Hood.
Finally we had another guess about what might be in the mystery box. We opened it up to reveal a turnip. Aimee in the kitchen had kindly cooked some for us to try too!
Oscar and the Bird
