We have been talking about friendship as part of anti-bullying week.  Today we watched a short film which showed us kind friends and unkind friends.  You can watch it again here.

We discussed the kind and unkind birds with our friends and tried to think about ways that the small birds could have acted differently.  We also spoke about being different and decided that the small birds might have been being unkind because they thought he was different.   Many of us thought that the big bird was the most exciting bit of the video and decided that it is good to be different.

We based our story writing on this fantastic video too.  The elephants were introduced to ‘openers’.  These are special words to begin our stories.  They all achieved their target of starting their sentences with an opener.

The pandas and tigers worked hard to remember finger spaces and full stops.  They are becoming very confident at sounding out words with less help – even managing tricky words like ‘pushed’ and ‘pecked’.  Well done!

Here are a selection of the finished stories! 😉