We have been doing a lot of work on instruction writing and have been using story maps to help us think about the structure of our writing. We listened to a song about how to make a pizza and as a class all agreed that a successful set of instructions would tell the reader the steps they need to take, use bossy verbs and have time connectives. We then went away to come up with our own instructions in our jotter. The instructions made Miss Gill very hungry when she was reading our writing. Have a look at some examples of our work!

In reading we have been working on different strategies that we can use when we come across a word that we do not know. We have been using chunky monkey to help us to break the word into chunks that we already know so that we can then try read the whole word. As well as continuing to make predictions we have also been working on summarising and re-telling the story.

After a lot of hard work and dedication our Wonka bars are now completed and on display in the classroom. We had received another letter from Mr Wonka who set us the challenge to create our own chocolate bars. We had to make sure that they were colourful, had different shapes and patterns on them and were named. We looked at some examples of chocolate bars and discussed what made us want to try them and took some of these features on board when creating our own designs.