Writing
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...
Our Kennings.
Today, in english, we have been writing kennings. Kennings are like riddles, and they give clues. Can you guess which animal our kennings are about?
Winter Wonder – our Class 3L poem.
With the snow falling we had an idea to work together to write a poem about the winter wonderland around us. We looked at the picture and then wrote the poem just one line at a time on our Class 3L Stream. Well done to all the children who contributed, every word of...
Winter Haikus.
In today's english lesson, we started learning about poetry. Today's job was to write a haiku about winter, but there were some important rules to follow: A haiku has three lines. The first line has five syllables (or claps). The second lines has seven syllables (or...
Creative phonics …
The children in Reception have worked very hard continuing to learn their phonics and letter formation every day in school and at home. Children and their families have shown great creativity finding items around their home linking to the letter sound they are...
Our poems turn silly into superb
As well as story-writing we have also been looking at poetry and really enjoyed learning about nonsense poetry. We found out about lots of amazing language features like Onomatopoeia – words that actually sound just like the thing they are describing. We used our...