Today, in english, we have written winter poems in the shape of either a snowman or a snowflake. We have used exciting verbs to start each line of our poems and we have used commas to list:
Winter Shape Poems (using verbs)
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Story Time
Writing at home is tricky for children- without Miss Winskill prodding them! We have worked incredibly hard over the past two weeks to create our own story to go with our digital literacy clip Lilly and the Snowman. We wrote a section every other day to make it more...
Total Recall – Phonics Style
The children have been recapping their set 2 and set 3. You can't beat this speed. Speed demons!
Don’t believe everything you see! Safer Internet Day 1.2M
For Internet Safety Day this year, I wanted to show the children to not always believe what they see on the internet. I tried to fool with a new hairdo and glasses (and a facelift) but they were too clever for me, Throughout the day they came up...
Wonderful Weather Watchers
We used our very own weather diary from school to create a pictogram. Not only did they make their pictogram but they also devised questions and answered them using the data. It feels like we are doing pictograms from all angles at the moment- in Maths, in Computing...
Instruction intros to blow your socks off 1.2M writing
These kids are using their alliteration skills and applying it to their instruction writing and adding in some rhetorical questions to get the reader thinking. Well done kids! We collaborated all our work to make a class set of instruction on how to make a bird...
Instruct away children; you’re in charge!
For the last 2 weeks, the children have been writing instructions to make bird feeders and then in the second week instructions for DIY bubble wands and mixtures. They have worked so hard. I for one am going to follow these instructions and make my own DIY bubble wand...
Town, Village or City? 1.2M Geography
This week in Geography the children have been learning about where we live and where that is. They have made some epic pictures to show the difference between villages, towns and cities and they have thrown in countries, their houses and (some of them even themselves)...
We are historians… What have we discovered about the Ancient Maya?
Did you know? The Maya civilisation began long ago in a place called 'Mesoamerica'. This huge area is made up of Mexico and part of Central America. The Mayas built amazing cities like Tikal (which they called 'Yax Mutal') and Palenque. Even though they lived in...
