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Goldilocks and the Three Bears Writing

February 6, 2013 User deactivated Leave a comment

We have been doing lots of writing projects for the latest fairytale that the Dragon sent us.

We created some “Wanted” posters for that naughty girl Goldilocks. They can be seen around the school at the moment.

020 — The reward for finding Goldilocks is 5 pence.

We had to try to think of different places where Goldilocks might have been seen last. Two suggestions were at the honey shop and at the hairdressers!

We wrote newspaper articles to report the very serious crime that had taken place at the 3 Bear’s house. We had to think about the questions who, when, where and what when we were writing them.

Some of us sequenced the story and wrote sentences to match.

The Superstars have also written recipes for the 3 Bear’s porridge. This is the first time we have written instructions this year but we did a great job.

Here is our writing wall in the classroom. Can you spot the porridge bowls we made last week?

Dragon Mail

January 16, 2013 User deactivated 8 Comments

The dragon left us another letter this morning.

He thanked us for the letters we wrote to him yesterday.

He had left us a table of books, some Jack and the Beanstalk puppets, some masks and a CD to listen to!

We read one of the books – “Jack and the Bean Pie.” In this book, the giant prefers to eat the tasty bean pies Jack makes rather than people. Most of the Superstars preferred this version to the original!

We worked with our talking partners to discuss the similarities and differences between the two books. We organised the information into a Venn diagram on the whiteboard.

In our ICT lesson, we made posters advertising Jack’s cow or the bean pies for sale. We had to open either the “cow” or “pie” document in Publisher, insert a picture from clipart and change the font and size and colour of the text. Mrs Stewart is really pleased with the way we are becoming much more independent in using and applying our computer skills.

Just before home time, some of the boys gave us an impromptu performance of “Jack and the Beanstalk” using the roleplay masks. It was very good!

I wonder what we will get up to tomorrow…

Fairyland

January 15, 2013 User deactivated 4 Comments

Today, something vey exciting happened. We opened the classroom door and found a trail of sparkly glitter leading to a letter on the table.

Some of us thought it might be from Santa and others thought it was from the Easter Bunny!

Well … we were all wrong! The letter was from a Dragon! His fairytale home has disappeared and he and all his fairytale friends have no homes. In his letter, the dragon asked us if we could rebuild Fairyland in our classroom and read lots of Fairytales as well. Of course we were very excited.

We thought we might have to have a wee break from our usual work for while, so we asked Mr Haxton if that would be ok. He agreed that we had a very important job to do!

First of all, we wrote back to the dragon.

After playtime, we read “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Mrs Stewart told us that sometimes the same story can be told in different ways. We are going to look at different versions of fairytales.

We started work on a beanstalk for Jack. We painted, sponged, printed and drew leaves with crayons and pastels, using lots of different shades of green. The beanstalk hs started to grow around our classroom door and into the classroom.

We wonder when the dragon will visit us next …

Seasonal Reading

December 19, 2012 User deactivated Leave a comment

Here are some of the books we have been reading over the last week.

024 — We really liked this story of a very naughty boy.

The last book is a really lovely retelling of the Christmas story, told from the innkeeper’s point of view.

We also looked at a powerpoint story and talked about the Nativity play which we performed earlier in the week.

We discussed how the same story can be told in different ways and from different points of view.

Going Batty!

November 21, 2012 User deactivated 9 Comments

We have been learning about bats this month and doing all sorts of bat based literacy, maths and art activities.

The Superstars read the book “Stellaluna” by Janell Cannon. We discussed what we had learned about bats from the book and made a venn diagram of the similarities and differences between bats and birds.

Our class watched a powerpoint about real bats and have started to learn about some of the features of non-fiction texts.

We also watched a short animated film called “Nightshift.” It is about a bat who can’t sleep during the day because some hungry baby birds, who live in the same tree, are making too much noise. We made some predictions about the ending but it wasn’t what we expected!!!

We used our literacy keys, Christopher Character and Sally Setting, to create a character called Fat Bat and then describe the cave where it lives. Mrs Stewart loved reading about Fat Bat’s creepy cave.