As part of our writing this week, we went outdoors to use the environment to inspire our writing.  

We are learning about characterisation this term and aim to be excellent and creating and describing characters in our writing. The context we used for our lesson was Storm who is a giant puppet who was displayed in Glasgow last weekend to mark the opening of the Celtic Connections festival.

We spoke about the different features of characterisation like appearance and personality.  We can see what Storm looks like but we don’t know what her personality is like so we need to use our imagination for this.

Looking at the different trees in our playground, we used these as inspiration for our descriptive vocabulary and wrote down adjectives that would describe our tree characters. We learned we need to think about our senses when describing something – what we can see, hear, touch, smell and taste.