✏️Our independent writing journey✏️

We then used our planning, working wall and TWS help box to ensure we were reaching our ME.

After having our work read, Miss wasn’t satisfied we were all writing for genre and purpose. Some of us slipped into narrative writing. We had a lesson unpicking a diary and another child’s example and up-levelling. From what we had refreshed, we then went back and redrafted our writing.

Handa’s Bananas 🍌

Our experience lesson today was totally bananas!
We are exploring the book Handa’s Surprise and in the story fruit is taken out of her basket as she walks to her friends house. A cheeky monkey swings down from a tree and steals a yellow banana without Handa knowing. Once we had made out bananas we walked around school balancing them on our heads. We were on the lookout for monkeys but luckily we didn’t spot any this time!

Beautiful Writing ✍️

Today some children in Crew Robson worked really hard to produce beautiful work that they were proud of. A huge shoutout to Porsha and Charlotte who spoke to Mr Sprakes from XP about their work. He was absolutely blown away be the presentation in their writing books. Great job girls!

Narrative Sequence

We started our new writing unit today which will be a narrative based around the film Ice Age. The last narrative we completed was our best piece of writing so we’re excited to get started.

After watching the video, we worked together in mini crews to sequence the events. Then we spent some time chatting notices, feelings and actions.

Subordinate clause ✍🏻

In our writing lesson today, we focussed on grammar which we will need in our narrative writing about The Ice Age. Our focus today was subordinate clauses but before we could look at these we looked at the difference between an independent clause and a dependent main clause. We learnt that an independent clause makes sense on its own and dependent clauses do not make sense by themselves and need a main clause to make sense. We then spotted how a subordinate clause can be at the start or end of a sentence. Then we had a go at piecing together some sentences whilst identifying the main clause and subordinate clause. We really enjoyed the extra challenge, where all the words were chopped up separately. We are so excited to try to include these in our writing. 😀✏️

Yr 4 – Editing/redraft

Today, we started to edit and redraft our recount from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. This has been a skill we’ve been working on since September and we’re continuing to develop.

We looked at an example of someone’s work and went through the process of taking one sentence at a time so we’re editing/redrafting small chunks. This ensures that we are working with manageable chunks. After modelling, children had the opportunity to start editing/redrafting their own work. They worked on whiteboards so they could edit and rework their sentence before writing into their books. We will continue to work on this during the next couple of lessons.