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Today’s Dragon Mail

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The Dragon wrote to let us know that he loved the posters that we made yesterday.

We are trying to make our beanstalk bigger. We made some more leaves when we had finished our maths and cut them out so they are ready to be added to the beanstalk.

Mrs Bailey brought us in some more books. One of them is called “Daft Jack and the Bean Stack.” We are about half way through it and we are really enjoying it. We think it is quite funny.

We talked about the main features of a book cover. We looked at the different “Jack” stories that we have in class and discussed what we liked about them and why.

We designed our own book covers.

In the afternoon we tried acting out parts of the story using mime. Then we worked in small groups and improvised and added some dialogue to our scene. We learned that we have to use nice loud voices and remember to face our audience when we are performing.

Seasonal Reading

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

Mrs Stewart's favourite!

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.

Making Predictions

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We have been learning to know and use the term “prediction” when looking at story books in class. We looked at the cover of this book, but Mrs Stewart hid the title from us.

We had to predict what the title would be by looking really closely at the picture and using all the clues available to us. We agreed that Emily made the best prediction with “The Girl who wanted a Lion for a Pet.”

Afterwards, we made these lovely lions from paper plates. They make a great display outside our classroom.