Diary Entry - Planning for Big Write

We have been planning to write a diary entry about the main character from the book we have been reading.

The book is called, 'Christophe's Story'.

We have been doing hot seating to pretend we were Christophe. We had to show empathy and say how we were feeling during different parts of the story. 

Here we are practicing being Christophe. 

Welsh Reading - Tan yn Eryri

We have reading a welsh book called Tan yn Eryri.

Best Work Books

We have been practicing writing stories from other cultures this term. Today we have been demonstrating what we have learnt about this genre of writing. The book that we have been reading is 'Christophe's Story'. We used this as a stimulus for our writing. 

Here we are writing our stories:

Abacus Maths - cm & mm

Today we have been doing the difference between cm & mm and this is what it looks like 3cm 5mm = 3.5cm & 35cm and 350mm = 35cm & 35cm 0mm. By Riley

Big Writing - Stories from other cultures

We have completed our Big Write for the week. We wrote the ending to our story from another culture. We used the book we have been reading, 'Christophe's Story', as a stimulus for our writing. 

The children set the following success criteria for an ending to a story from this genre:

Must - have a problem

Should - work on their writing target

Should - refer to traditions from the country

Could - resolve the problem

The standard was excellent. We self assessed our work and our friends work against the success criteria we set.

Abacus Maths - Measuring

We have been learning how to measure in cm and mm.

We learnt how to convert between cm and mm. 

For example:

11cm 5mm = 11.5cm = 115mm

Braces Bread Visit

We had a visitor from Braces Bread this morning. He talked to us about how we make bread. We also made our own bread.

Big Write - poetry

Today in our Big Write we have written poems about Cats. 

We read a number of poems by Grace Nichols earlier in the week. We picked good features of these types of poems.

The features we highlighted were:

Powerful verbs

Making sure each line of the poem makes sense 

Effective imagery

We set these as our success criteria for our own poems.

Here we are writing our Cat poems.

Big Write - Stories from another culture

We have been reading a book called 'Christpe's Story'. The book is about a little boy from Rwanda who is a refugee. He comes to England and tells the children in his class all about his life. 

We have used this story as a stimulus to our writing. Last week we wrote a story opener and tomorrow we will write the ending to our story. 

Here we are making notes for our endings.