Today we began our next text about the Story of Noah and his ark.
We worked collaboratively to build arks just like Noah did. I wonder if ours will float?
All Afloat on Noah’s Boat
Category : Writing in Action
Crew Boswell – Peer Marking in Writing
In writing, we have been creating diary entries from the perspective of Cam through the events of Pig Heart Boy. We are enjoying this and had the opportunity to mark our peer’s work, which was a great way to help us identify the features of good writing (and to magpie each other’s great ideas)! Hopefully this will make the remaining plot points easier to write so we can show off the progress that we have made.
It’s all about the view…
Today we finished our book of “Our Tower” the children met a man in the tree who gifted them a stone with a hole in it, the stone gave them a different view of the world. Once leaving the magical inside of the tree the children decided to use this to view their city. This now looked completely different through their viewpoint – the once grey and dull city no longer looked dull and boring but now looked fun with people having picnics and playing, the sun was shining and everyone was having fun.
It left us thinking that if you change your view on something it might not be as bad as it seems.
Boys and their Beautiful Work
I was blown away by Teddy and Romelle on Friday. They tried so hard to write a setting description based on our text ‘Our Tower’. Well done boys!
Exploring in the tree
In today’s experience lesson we explored inside the tree, we swung on ropes, hopped on spots and crawled under leaves. We loved this new purple magical world!
Fab writing in Y1
I am so proud of our writing from today, well done year 1! Keep it up!
Experiencing the wilderness…
Today as part of our Experience Day for The Write Stuff, we swung through the tree, navigated the tall grass and spied the magical creatures. We had to keep our balance on the stepping stones and we were unsure what the ear aching noises from down below could be…
The luminous magical tree
Today in our experience lesson we followed the singing into the woods to find the tree which was singing. We found the leaves were swirling and dancing to a magical, luminous green, old tree. We thought it looked different to the city we had just travelled from. We made some beautiful artwork to showcase what we had seen.
Experience Day – Charlie and the Chocolate factory
In our writing lesson today, we first completed a silent conversation and chotted down notices, actions and feelings that we could see in the pictures from the film. We then watched the clip of Charlie and the Chocolate factory and chotted some amazing vocabulary we could use in our writing. We even used the thesaurus to uplevel this vocabulary. After that, we then put parts of the film in order of which they happened. We did have to watch the clip a few times to make sure we got them in the correct order but this was a great way to get to fully understand the writing journey we will be going on.
Writing Speech – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
After having time to work alongside out partners to write speech, it was now time to write speech independently. We watched the video, took note of what was being said and by who before recording this in our books and punctuating it. It was lovely to see some children push themselves to green and experience with having the reporting clause at the start and end of the sentence.