We have really enjoyed our work on the book ‘Leaf Man’. We loved talking about the story, thinking of all the different creations that were made out of the leaves as they were blown about in the Autumn weather.
We followed the steps to draw our own Leaf Man, and we chose different Autumnal colours to add extra detail to our finished drawings. We then use a starting dot to trace the word ‘m-a-n’ underneath.
A round up of provision in Crew McGlone from the last couple of weeks!
To link to our work on the text ‘Owl Babies’, Crew McGlone have been drawing their own mummy owl following a step-by-step instruction sheet. They used crayons to make sure that each part of the owl was the correct colour, and once finished they used a starting dot to trace over the word ‘m-u-m’. The children have worked hard at remembering everything they need to show that they are ready to write, including; bottoms to the back of their chairs, tummies touching the table, 6 feet on the floor, 2 hands ready to write, and pinch parrot.
We were shocked this morning to find our Crew bear has gone missing! We made poster and asked around school to see if anyone has seen him!
We have been looking at the story ‘The Gruffalo’ in our writing sessions this week. We have talked about the features he has and how we can show them using different shapes and colours. We then used a step-by-step guide to help us. Once we were finished, we then told Miss McGlone everything we had included in our drawings to create The Gruffalo.
We have been looking at the story ‘The Everywhere Bear’ during our writing lessons, and it has inspired us to draw our own bears. We followed a step-by-step guide to help us use the correct shapes, and when we were done we told Miss McGlone all about the features of our bear, which she then added on as labels.
We have been putting our pre-writing skills to the test as we have been tracing our names, using a starting dot on each letter to help us with the correct letter formation.
Crew McGlone are FANTASTIC at remembering all the correct steps to show that they are ready to write: BBC, TNT, 6 feet, 2 hands. They have really blown me away with how well they are working on their ‘pinch parrot’ to perfect their pencil grip! The children have also been learning about the specific handwriting lines: top broken, top solid, bottom solid, bottom broken, as well as looking at how we start writing at the top of the page and we write from left to right. Lots of things to remember, but using our writing wall to look at the Widgits of each skill really helps us!
Today, Crew Godley began to bring their ideas from Where’s My Teddy? to life through our own narrative writing. We used our experience from the teddy hunt to help us imagine what it would be like to search for something special that had been lost.
We worked on writing our first plot point, thinking carefully about what happened first, next and finally. We focused on using capital letters and full stops correctly and added interesting adjectives to describe the characters and settings in our stories.
The children produced some beautiful work!
Today, Crew Godley were introduced to our new writing unit, inspired by the story Where’s My Teddy? by Jez Alborough. We explored how it might feel to lose something special and thought carefully about the different emotions Eddy experiences throughout the story.
We then headed outside into XP Outdoors for our very own teddy hunt! We worked together to search different areas, following clues and using our teamwork skills to help us find the missing teddy. Along the way, we discussed how we felt during our search and imagined how Eddy might have felt as he searched for his teddy in the woods.
This experience helped us to build our understanding of the story, develop our vocabulary around feelings and emotions, and gather ideas that we can use in our writing over the next week
This morning we took part in a TTRS/Pobble writing lesson in which we used a picture stimulus to create a new story. The children were really engaged and wrote some fantastic stories. Some even stayed in at break to illustrate their books!
