It is September 1940 and WWII has been going on for a year now, some people have been calling it the phony war as no one here in Britain have felt the full impact of the war…yet. Please click below to hear an air raid siren…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/history/ww2clips/sounds/air_raid_siren
TAKE COVER! In our classroom you see the German bombers overhead and our classroom door is now an entrance to an Anderson Shelter!
Our Literacy work this week has been based around our WWII theme this week,
Reading – we read a memoir from a lady called Eileen Frost who had been a child during WWII and she described her memories of building an Anderson shelter and life in London during the war.
Writing – We watched a short clip of a man called Joseph Robertson who had been a soldier during the war, he also was describing one particular memory of when he was in a battle. The children then discussed and shared emotive language and ideas about this and wrote a memoir from Joseph’s point of view. These were well written and used some amazing emotive language. They are now part of our WWII display in class. We also used fact sheets about Anderson Shelters to help us re-create an instruction guide on how to build an Anderson Shelter, we used the Scottish Criterion checklist to help us use good writer’s craft throughout our piece.
Listening and Talking – We are now listening to a text called “Catching Falling Starts” by Karen McCombie.
Mrs Currie is reading this aloud to us. It is about a girl called Glory and her little brother called Rich, they are children who were living in London during the outbreak of WWII. At first their parents did not send them away to the countryside as they wanted to stay together as a family, but after a narrow escape from a Blitz attack (only their Anderson shelter saved them) they are now being evacuated.
This leads us onto our topic focus for next week – Evacuees. The children will continue to develop their use of emotive writing skills as they put themselves into the shoes of a child being evacuated and write about their journey as they leave home.
In Maths we have started our work on using and interpreting data. Our focus for this week was to find out how much we already know about this topic in Maths and we started analysing bar graphs. Everyone was given the opportunity to use data that we gathered in class about our Favourite Flavour of Crisps, using a tally mark chart, and created our own bar graphs. To help us out we used the following website to show us how to create a bar graph,
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html
Try using this to help you create more graphs at home. Send a reply back if you manage this. Next week we will begin to use some data and graphs from WWII to interpret and analyse to find out more statistics linked to this topic.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Currie
