Tag Archives: LITERACY

Victorians- Queen Victoria Fact Flap Book

Today we created these fact flap books all about Queen Victoria.

We used tessellation skills to draw 7 hexagons and cut them out to look like a flower with attached petals.

We did a line drawing sketch of Queen Victoria in the centre of our flowers using a portrait found online.

We brainstormed facts we knew about Queen Victoria and shared information with each other!

Lots of skills development from across the curriculum on display here!

Relative Clauses

Today we learned about relative clauses!  We found out that a relative clause adds detail an description to our sentences.  We created pop open pamphlets to show how adding a relative clause to a sentence can make them more complex and add detail.

We used the “sentence burgers” to investigate how to construct a sentence using a relative clause.

Spooky Limericks

Today we learned about the structure of a limerick!

A limerick is a funny poem where lines 1, 2 and 5 all rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.  The poems should also have a natural flow and bounce using a beat.

Mrs Clarke was very impressed with some of our limericks, we wrote them on spooky gravestones as epitaphs for Halloween characters!

 

Refugee Art

As part of our learning around “The Boy At Ghe Back Of The Class” by Onjali Q Raúf, we investigated attitudes towards refugees both in the news and in popular culture.

We read Bill Bilston’s poem “Refugees” which when read from bottom to top has a different meaning from reading top to bottom.

We used our class colours of the world pencils and crayons to create drawings of an Afghan refugee girl, and wrote the poem inside her Hijab.