We loved tasting chapattis and playing games with them.
Having a chapatti good time!
Category : Writing in Action
Practise makes perfect!
Practise, practise, practise! Crew Godley have been trying so hard to develop their handwriting skills, making sure our letters are formed from the correct point, sat on the line and have correct ascenders and descenders. It’s a lot to remember but we are stating to see some real improvements!
Catch that Chapatti!
Grammar continues in MI
Today we explored persuasive openers, we found them in a series of sentences, built them together with the whole crew and in mini crews then worked on creating some sentences independently. We will then apply these to our persuasive letters when we start writing 🙂
Year 2 Non-Chronological Report
Today we began our lesson by thinking about the school day. In pairs we ordered the events that happen in a typical school day such as reading, writing and maths. The children then added in important things like bagels and story time that Mrs Robson had forgotten about!
Afterwards we thought more carefully about the purpose of crew and what happens during our crew sessions as this will be the first section of our report.
Feature finding
In our writing lesson, we focussed on identifying the features that are needed for a no chronological report. We found lots of features such as: title, subheadings, facts, third person and pictures with captions. We can’t wait to start writing our non chronological report about the Mayans.
Editing our science report
This week we have written our science report about how chocolate changes state when heat is applied. As with writing, we have edited and redrafted our work this afternoon before we publish the piece of work. This allows us to pull the skills we’ve been learning in writing through to other areas of the curriculum.
Experience day lesson continues in MI
Today we continued with our experience day lesson from yesterday! We will be writing a persuasive letter to Mrs Atherton to ask her if we can become beekeepers! We recapped our learning from yesterday discussing emotive language, flattery and alliteration. We had another look at some of the ideas on our anchor chart where we described Mrs Atherton! We can’t wait to add these to our persuasive letters when we come to write them.
Today we thought about why crew MI are so amazing and how we can show we are. We worked in mini crews to build ideas then produced a class anchor chart. We then looked at a variety of video clips building background knowledge on the benefits of bees and why beekeeping is important. We build ideas in mini crews then as a whole crew. We then used our ideas and put them into some sentences. We are really enjoying our new writing unit 🙂
The final talent show act…
Once the talent show had ended, Noah announced that there was one more act. All of the animals gathered around and stared at the cocoons, they started to wiggle and hatch. Two beautiful, rainbow butterflies – we created our own butterflies!
Reading/Experience
In writing, we have used the time as a reading lesson because if we are to write a non chronological report we need to ensure we have the information.
