It was lovely to see children sharing their independent writes that they have been working on over the past week.
A big shout out to those children who stood up and shared their stories with the class too!
Sharing our independent writes ✏️
Category : Writing in Action
Our Independent Diary Up-levelling ✏️
By children in Crew McLoughlin.
While Miss was working with part of the class to redraft a plot point, we were independently up-levelling our Tudor diary writing. Our diary is all about attending a royal Tudor banquet and we have been editing and improving it using ‘ARMS’ to add, remove, move and substitute ideas.
We have been including what we learned in grammar lessons, like expanded noun phrases, pronouns, adverbials, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions and parenthesis.
Our diary writing shows how the Tudors lived their daily lives and how sometimes their punishments didn’t fit the crime. We have really enjoyed revising our plot points and becoming more independent confident editors of our own work. We are proud of how much our writing has improved!
Role-Play Sparked creativity
Crew McLoughlin has had a fun and creative learning experience today in order to redraft a plot point of their diary.We took part in an imaginative role-play activity, where we pretended to be a Tudor getting ready to attended a special banquet. We imagined waking up, getting dress and walking into the hall. This is to help us write a diary about our day- what we saw, felt and did.
Read Write Inc Practice Sheets
This week, the children have began using Read Write Inc. practice sheets. These help them to develop their letter formation skills and create clear, recognizable letters. This will be an ongoing activity throughout their school year.
The children practice saying the picture of the sound, the letter sound , then they practice using the picture cards. They then say the phrase as they write, and finally say the sound again while forming the letter. This supports their phonics and early writing development.
We look forward to sending these sheets home as part of home learning and seeing the amazing work that Crew Frost continue to produce.
What’s Another Word For Amazing???
Crew Ramsay have been developing our vocabulary by using thesauruses! We are eager to broaden our range of vocab by learning tier two words which better articulate our ideas. Here we are exploring the wonderful world of words!!
The Day The Carcroft Crayons Quit!
To launch our Diverse Doncaster Expedition, Crew Ramsay read the story, The Day The crayons Quit. We then used our crayons to enjoy making some pictures just like they do in the story and hung these proudly on our writing wall. We couldn’t believe it when the crayons quit the next day and left us a note! What a launch to a new writing unit!
A Mysterious Blue Substance Hits Crew Godley!
Crew Godley’s investigation took an unexpected turn when a mysterious blue substance filled the room! The police came to make sure everyone was safe and a scientist has taken away the mysterious substance.
Not ones to stay silent, we’ve decided to write to the Doncaster Free Press to share our concerns about this ever-growing mystery. Today we have started to plan out our own newspaper reports, Firstly, we carefully unpicked an example report and discovered that similar strange events have been happening across the whole country. As we analysed the newspaper report, we looked at lots of important features, including headlines, quotes, the what, when and where. Using these features, we are now ready to plan and write our own reports about the mysterious events at Crew Godley.
Out of this World!
Wonderful Writing in Y5/6
Today I had a visit from 4 of our Y5/6 Pupils who were keen to share their diary entries- they were so entertaining to listen to. I also loved the way the children read their work aloud, loud and proud, using their reading voices…
Within their writing, they have been focussing hard on writing for effect and I loved their varied sentence structures. It was also good to see them improving their work to make it even better using their purple polishing pen.
Finally, it was also good to see that handwriting was improving after a slight decline in standards over recent weeks, it was clear pupils were trying to ensure high quality work consistently. A super visit- thanks Crew McLoughlin.
Solar Sounds
Crew Godley had a blast in ‘Create Your Own Verse’ today! We explored space through poetry, thinking about what we could see, hear, or feel, and turned our ideas into short, creative lines. We also practised reading our poems aloud to the crew with expression. It was lovely to see how hard everyone worked.
