Dundee Clan have got off to a great start in term 2. We began our learning about the rainforest through reading the book ‘The Great Kapock Tree’ by Lynne Cherry. We loved listening to this and had so many questions and wonders that we want to explore further. So far, we have learnt about the 7 continents in the world, where rainforests are in the world, why they are so warm and wet and what animals live there through exploring habitats. We were surprised to learn that there is more than one rainforest in the world and that people live in the rainforest! We look forward to learning more.
We have really enjoyed our visits from Mrs De Luen from NYCOS – The National Youth Choir of Scotland. We have learnt about keeping the beat in music, rhythm in music using notation and words to support us, and the pitch in music identifying high and low sounds as well as being introduced to notation. We played lots of games to support our learning and particularly loved having the parachute out.
We are learning about a new genre of writing – narrative writing (story writing). We are confident with the purpose, structure and language features of this genre and have had a go at creating a scary story – The Haunted House, together as a clan. We loved learning about onomatopoeia words and how these types of words can add excitement and interest to our story writing. We are looking forward to creating narrative texts based in the rainforest.
