Blog by Tag: Writing

In writing this term, we have been looking at the story of Odysseus. This week, we learnt about his adventures again the Sirens. We wrote instructions using conjunctions, about how Odysseus's sailors were able to avoid falling into the Sirens' trap. Then, we looked at Margaret Atwood's poem Siren…

The children have been understanding andtalking about how they have changed. They also spoke about what people can look like as they change and the types of features or characteristics that change as they grow older. 
 

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Daffodils have been joining in with different activities to develop their fine motor skills. We have been using tweezers to collect pom poms and have been making pre-writing shapes on whiteboards and with chalk outside! We are developing the muscles in our hands ready for writing. Well done Team…

In writing this week, Team Hedgehogs used expanded noun phrases to create an effective description. We needed to improve the description of the Apollo 13 explosion from our book Counting on Katherine. 

We started by building word-banks of nouns and adjectives, before having a go ourselves. Some…

LO: to use chunky mark making tools, held in whole hand palmar grip.

The Daisies have been practcing their mark making skills in their books. The Daisies enjoyed making pre writing shape during write dance, they could follow along to the music and was able to listen to and follow the…

The children have been practicing our literacy and phonics skills. We practiced the formation of the graphemes we have been learning and practicing within class. 
 

This half term, Team Daffodils have been working incredibly hard with their name writing. We've been practising our pencil grip, learning the initial sounds in our names and started to have a go at writing our first names! Great job Team Daffodils.

The children in Daisies have been practising their name writing and recognisition. Some of the children were able to form the letters independently. 
 

This week during our writing lessons we have been identifying some key features of a journal entry and then we have been planning our own journal entries to retell the story of Our Tower. We have used Showbie to create our plans and we have created a word bank as a class to help us with our…

In English this week we have been working really hard on connecting two ideas by including 'and' when looking at our new book 'The Lion Inside'. Look at our amazing writing! 

This week, we are beginning to learn how to write our names. We are using our name cards to look at the shape of the letters in our names. Then, we are having a go at writing what we think our name looks like in our Christmas cards.

The children enjoyed practising their literacy skills through mark-making activities.