5 October 2018

Becoming authors!

This week in Literacy, we’ve taken on the role of an author and have written our own evacuee stories.  Take a look at the example below, I wonder what grammatical features you can spot?

Becoming authors!

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27 September 2018

What a busy week!

This week in Literacy, we’ve been learning how to use inverted commas accurately. We first up-leveled part of our class text, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ by using synonyms for said and interesting adverbs, and then progressed onto using story cards to practise using speech marks correctly. We used…

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21 September 2018

The Blitz!

As part of our topic, ‘Home front Heroes’ we’ve been creating pictures of The Blitz.

The children blended different colours of oil pastels to create their backgrounds and then used black paper to create the silhouettes in the foreground. Don’t they look effective?

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7 September 2018

Super start to the year

In Literacy, we’ve been working together to make predictions on our new class text, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ based on information stated and implied on the front cover.

We’ve been using some fabulous vocabulary when describing some of the settings in the story…

In Maths, we’ve been…

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