This week we wrote personal stories about our holidays.  Many of us were able to confidently use openers and connectives.  Some of us chose to experiment with different types of punctuation too!

Here are the star writers:

Here is our star drawer:

This week we wrote recipes for the bread that we had made yesterday.  We all worked hard to use special recipe ‘openers’ for the start of our sentences.  We also had to try and make our recipes easy to follow and to make our pictures clear and detailed.  We all worked very hard to achieve our targets!

The recent oral and written feedback from the children suggests that they were most proud of sharing their story writing with you at open day.  It is wonderful that the children are all so enthusiastic and proud of their writing pieces.  It makes Mrs Duncan a very proud teacher – well done everyone!

We worked extra hard on our story writing this week because we were eager to be the star writers for open day! 🙂

This week we re-wrote the Easter story.  We all have a very clear understanding of at least one important part from the Easter story!

Oliver

Mara

Abbey

Emily

Here is our star drawer! Hasn’t Kian done a wonderful picture of Jesus? I love the expression on his face on the cross! 🙂

This week we wrote our own stories based on The Little Red Hen.  Our targets were to try re-telling the main parts of the story.  Many of us also experimented with different types of punctuation and with openers.

Here are our star writers for this week:

Here is is our star drawer for this week. Please zoom in to look at the fantastic detail in his drawing!

This week We wrote letters to Mrs Duncan.  We were given targets to work towards and we all had to try and write our letters independently.  We had to include some facts that we had learned about dinosaurs and our favourite activities.  Here are our star writers for this week.

Aila

Harry

Sancha

Enzo

Here are our very proud star writers from this week.  We can’t show you our writing yet because it is top secret!  (Although, I am doubtful how many of the children will manage to keep it secret!) :)You will get it sent home to you very soon.

Most of us were working hard to achieve these targets today:

This week we wrote imaginative stories using ourselves as the main character.  We imagined what would happen if we grew a dinosaur in our garden.  The stories were all very exciting and entertaining!  Here are the star writers.

If I grew a dinosaur I would put a dress on it. Aila.

If I grew a dinosaur I would go on its back.   Holly.

If I grew a dinosaur I would play Monopoly.  And I would take him home.  Ava.

If I grew a dinosaur it would be a magic diplodocus.  It (would) make me happy.  Abbey.

Here is our star drawer.  Well done Enzo – I love your fantastic detail.

This week we continued with the same writing targets as last week.  Our main taregt was to write an exciting story using a character from a story.  This week we used ‘Stinkysaurus’ who was a very dirty and smelly dinosaur.  As you can imagine, this prompted very graphic writing descriptions and an entire class of very motviated children!

Here are our star writers for this week:

If you look closely at each picture you can see the very descriptive language that we used! 🙂 We had a lot of fun writing these stories today.

We also had a star drawer.  Here she is:

We wrote imaginative stories using the setting and characters from Katie Morag today.  We continue to impress Mrs Duncan (and ourselves) when writing.

Today our main target was to make our story exciting.  We talked about what makes a story exciting to help us get some ideas.  We all definitely achieved this target! Many of us are beginning to write two sentences in our stories and our target continues to be putting full stops and capital letters in the correct places.  Some of us were introduced to openers – these are exciting starters for our stories.

We voted for the star writers today again.  This week Mrs Duncan hid the pictures from us as many of us were voting for star drawers rather than star writers.  Maybe next week we will try having 1 star drawer!

Here are our star writers:

Today we continued our writing theme of non-fiction dinosaur stories.  We tried to write  one or two true facts from a film and book we shared together.  They were all about dinosaur babies.  We found out that a dinosaur mummy would lay 100 eggs in a nest.  We were shocked to learn that many dinosaur mummies abandoned their eggs before they hatched.   Many of us are now writing two sentences independently!

We chose the stories that we thought had met the targets and then chose four star writers.  It was tricky for us to remember that we were looking for the best writing and not the best drawings – we will continue to work on this.  Here are our star writers for this week…