Read the poem – ‘Unmentioned in Despatches’ by Peter Wyton
Link to poem –
https://www.veday75.org/wp- content/uploads/2020/01/VE-Day-poem.pdf
Everything that you will need to complete this activity, can be found in the Sway below. There is also a special guest reciting the poem. Enjoy!
Remember to share your work with your class teacher via Seesaw or Glow email.
Good morning, everyone!
Welcome back to the Blog. It seems very strange not to be taking in the lines as usual on the first day of term. I also miss hearing your holiday news, but you can leave a message here or on Seesaw to let me know what you’ve been up to (or write it in your journal).
Anyway, I hope you had a lovely break enjoying the sunshine over the holidays and are all ready for some more learning activities in Term 4.
To kick-start the term, I have a Literacy challenge for you. You may already have seen that one of the reading tasks in this week’s Spicy Literacy Grid involves finding different words in your reading book that the author uses instead of ‘said’.
Click on my Sway to find out more …
P.S. House points will be awarded to the pupil with the highest total (I will have to verify this once we’re back at school)!
P.P.S. Maybe some of the teachers/parents would like to have a go at this as well?
Here’s another Easter Literacy challenge for everyone. How many words you can make from ‘HAPPY EASTER’?
Read the instructions in the Sway below, and challenge other family members to take part. I’d recommend doing this over a number of days so that you can keep adding to your total.
Don’t forget to write the list of words in your Learning Journals, and leave a comment for me here, to let me know how many you have managed to find. I’m going to give it a go and I challenge all the teachers and Mrs Fraser to take part as well!
There are different rules for Mild, Spicy and Hot, so click on the Sway to find out more.
Hi Everyone.
This week I managed to get a friendly face within our school and community to help with the next set of Easter Words,
Clue: This person visits each class at least once a term.
Click the Sway video below to find out ! Remember to comment below so our special guest can see all your comments 🙂
I thought I would share with you all a journal entry I did following the sentence starts for Mild from last Thursday. It has been quite strange the past week with lots of sudden changes to our normal routine. This has been quite challenging and once or twice I have forgotten what day it is. But on Thursday I went for a very long walk and counted so many beautiful rainbows in the people’s windows. Then in the evening I wanted to take part in #clapforourcarers but didn’t know what would happen at 8pm. It was so lovely to open my lounge window and clap with so many other people with cheering and chanting. It was the first time that week that I had really interacted with other people.
How has your Journal Writing gone? Are you writing daily / every few days?
I also shared with you my idea of documenting this time on my journal cover, so I thought I would share with you how it is looking so far, is anybody else doing a doodle cover?
P4 have been enjoying playing mental maths games on the Digipuzzle website – Pacman is one of their favourites. Today I found a new Pacman game to play – Easter Words.
Have a look at the Sway to see some of my suggestions for some other games you could play. You’ll also find links to the website there.
I hope you have fun trying some of them. Let me know which ones you’ve tried by leaving a comment on the blog. 🙂
Hello Everyone 🙂
Hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready for another week of learning.
My blog post today is on our Story Starter task, again I am aware many of you may have already done this but I would encourage you to go through this powerpoint, you could maybe self assess your piece of writing or edit and redraft as this is also a very important skill within your writing that will create depth and progression 🙂
Remember you can send your stories to your individual teacher through their email/ send the link of sway via private message on seesaw.
Hello everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are going to try out some more of the grid activities this week.
Before the school closed, P4 were keen to have a ‘Word of the Week’, challenge. I thought some of the other classes might like to give it a go too, so here it is.
Click on the Sway to find out what to do.
I wonder if anyone in P6/5 can remember what this week’s word means? 🙂
Today I thought I’d attempt a HOT challenge from the Literacy grid, as I know a few of you have done this already.
With poetry, remember that ‘less is more’, so choose your words carefully and remember to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
Drifting slowly down
Like pink confetti falling –
Cherry blossom tree.
Trees scrape the night sky,
Bare branches clutching at stars.
The storm is coming.
And now a silly one –
Stretching and yawning,
The world’s laziest cat wakes –
“Time for my tea, Mum!”
Hope you’ll have a go too! 🙂
Hello Everyone, Thursday already where has this week gone !
Today i tried the Literacy Hot Syllables Challenge, you can see my attempt below on the video but don’t worry I have sounded them out you still need to count them!
As I am aware you may not have come on to that challenge yet !
This is my first video, I thought about practising over and over again with recording my voice and then I thought you guys might like to see my progression with my Talking Skills the more videos I make.
The website I used for the free printable fonts can be seen below however I am sure there are many many more on offer online.
Hope you enjoy!
https://online.rapidresizer.com/make-name-patterns.php
