English & Maths
Ola is proud to show off her amazing character description, applying expanded noun phrases, adverbials and more varied sentence types!
More super ‘Charlie’ English work - today involved some grammar work using commas in a list and commas in clauses.
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Fantastic start to our ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’ English topic... we collected a vast amount of adjectives around the main characters of the story. This week we’ve put them to good use in our sentences working with varied fronted adverbials, as seen below!
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Here are some recounts of the ‘Kapok Tree’ it was the first piece of independent writing and great to see a start to adding noun phrases and varied adjectives for detail, something we have been working on.
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Cold Write - it was great to see the children remembering the main points from the ‘Kapok Tree’ to address the readers of their letters about the important issues!
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We had a go at turning what the animals said to the sleeping man in the ‘Kapok Tree’ into facts in preparation for our letter writing unit.
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It was great to see some fantastic letters after our ‘persuasive writing’ unit. I was extremely happy to see persuasive devices being used; power of three, rhetorical questions, facts and figures and emotion really helped us to pull together our letters to persuade people from chopping down our precious rainforests.
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It was hard to choose 3 ... our first assessed write - diary entry; using emotive thoughts & feelings and using senses to act as the man from the ‘Kapok Tree’ story.
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