News reporters in Year 4
This week, we will begin writing a newspaper report based on a tale from the ‘Tales of China book. In preparation, we worked in groups to create our own news reports....
This week, we will begin writing a newspaper report based on a tale from the ‘Tales of China book. In preparation, we worked in groups to create our own news reports....
In topic, we are learning about the Shang Dynasty. This week, we worked in groups to discuss what we have already learnt about the Shang Dynasty and asked questions about what we wanted to find out, e.g. How did the Shang learn? How did the Shang...
As part of our writing unit, we are learning about how Tutankhamen was mummified. We wrote instructions for how to mummify an orange and then had a go at following our instructions!...
We have been practicing our editing skills in writing and sharing our work with our partners so that we can help each other and give helpful feedback....
As part of our English unit we have been learning about adverbs of manner. Here we are playing a game of charades where our partners job was to guess the verb and the adverb of manner....
In writing, we have started reading the beautiful 'Willow Pattern Story' by Allan Drummond. The story is pictured in the very famous willow pattern blue and white crockery still used today. At the start of the week, we immersersed ourselves into the story and made...
This week in Writing, our learning objective is to write a play script. In preparation for this, we immersed ourselves in play scripts by acting them out, explored and identified features of them and planned our own based on the book ‘A River’ by Marc...
In English we have written modern versions of Tyger, Tyger by William Blake....
We published some fantastic setting descriptions based on their own narrative inspired by ‘A River’ by Marc Martin. Miss Porritt was blown away by the captivating figurative language used such as onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors and expanded noun phrases. We are fantastic at creating mood and...
In writing we have been reading our setting descriptions to each other to peer review. We focused on the way we were using our voices and being active, whole body listeners!...