We have been finding out about habitats and carnivores, omnivores and herbivores. We have written recounts of the day and made collages of our favourite animals. Can you tell which animals we liked best?
English
Non-chronological reports
In English Year 4 and 5 have been studying the narrative poem ‘The Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll with the intention of writing a non-chronological report about the animal called the Jabberwock.
We learned the features of a report and extracted all the evidence about the Jabberwock from the poem. We looked up facts from other animals and combined these to create our reports.
What do you think of our Jabberwocks? Would you enter the tulgey wood?
Poetry Festival
We all learned a range of poetry to perform at the class poetry festival. Some of us performed action poems, some of us performed rhyming poems and some of us performed free verse.
The class performed 2 poems together one with actions, Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth – Pam Eyres’ and one without actions ‘The magic of the mind – Simon Webster.’ We enjoyed learning to convey meaning when we couldn’t use any actions.
World Book Day
Diamond Class celebrated World Book Day by learning dance and drama techniques to explore the book ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl. Some pupils shared their favourite book with the class giving recommendations for why others would love to read it. The class also learned how to write a story in either 25 words or 25 sentences. The stories were very impressive.
English Expedition Story
Year 4, 5 and 6 learned the features of an adventure story and then wrote one inspired by their ‘expedition’ to Lake Mono. The volcano erupted whilst they were there! Read their stories to see what happened.
The pupils read their stories aloud to the class learning to use expression to convey the drama of the story. We all enjoyed listening to them. They were very dramatic.