Dundee clan have immersed themselves in all things non-fiction. We have been looking at non-fiction books and texts and exploring the features of these compared to fiction books. We have begun learning about how to write an information report and explored examples of this type of text finding out about the purpose, the sections that make up an information text and what the purpose of these sections are. We will continue to explore this over the weeks ahead. We have also started our new class novel ‘Rivet Boy’ which is based in the past, at the time of the construction of the Forth Rail bridge which links to our IDL learning about the Victorians and engineering.
We really enjoyed learning about jobs that children did in the Victorian times. We learnt about the types of jobs they were expected to do for little money and with no safety laws. We were very shocked at some of the information we learnt. We had a go at putting ourselves in the children’s shoes by taking part in a ‘Hot-Seating’ Task. This is where the children pretend that they are a child from the past and the rest of the group or clan ask questions about what life is like for them in the Victorian times and what it is like to work. The children were very believable in their roles and got a real feel for what it must have been like for children in those times.
We have also really enjoyed learning our example information report text about ‘firefighters’. We used visual pictures to support us learning the text and came up with some amazing actions to go with it and we all were able to say the text. The whole clan loved learning this and are looking forward to learning more about this type of writing and having a go ourselves.
