Category Archives: literacy

P4 Active Spelling

This week some of us took our group literacy outside to enjoy the beautiful autumn weather. Being outside in the fresh air, applying our skills in a different way and using natural resources all help improve our learning experience. We all felt energised, engaged and relaxed. We used chalk, water, leaves, sticks and seed cases to build our spelling words rather than writing them with pencil and paper. We then spelled our words out loud alongside some exercises to get the brain and body working in perfect harmony!

P4- Acrostic Amazon!

This week our literacy focus has been creating an acrostic poem with the word RAINFOREST. First we had a class discussion about relevant and interesting topic related words that could start each line of the poem. We filled a whole board with WOW words and then we wrote a poem together so we could see an example of how the words could be used. Our poetry was fantastic and really demonstrated our knowledge of the Amazon in a new and creative way.

P4 – this week in literacy and IDL

Researchers hard at work!
This week we were given a section of the rainforest to research at our table. We used fiction texts and the Active Wild website and created posters at our table, listing as many creatures we could find that lived there. We then shared our learning with the class and saw that many of the creatures appeared in several different layers. Next we each chose one creature to do specific research on. We focussed on habitat, appearance, diet and any other useful facts, like hunting and hiding methods. We produced a factfile which we will use next to create a Word document. We have seen the effects of deforestation and heard of the forest fires destroying this beautiful, fragile habitat. we produced a poster to raise awareness of he current state of the Amazon. Ask us what we know about the importance of the Amazon rainforest to our planet.