I’m very excited about an email I received from Elaina today! I will show you all tomorrow and maybe we can reply as a whole class! Check out her new school – they seem like an Eco-school too – read about how they are making their school sustainable.
Find out what sustainable means and see if you can explain to the class why we are an Eco – school and why it is important.
We have sent home a letter with the children about building a castle out of Lego or junk/reclaimed materials to support our work on Traditional Tales and writing progress. Please bring your models in on Monday so that we can judge them on the Tuesday – Mrs Brierley has prizes for the best ones! 
Enjoy your half term holiday! I wonder where Barnaby Bear is at the moment and I hope he is being well behaved with Jade!
Class 2 Enrichment Tasks- wb.9.2.09
Here are some useful links to try at home about our work this week- if you don’t have access to a computer- come in and try them after school! Don’t be shy!
http://www.kidsfortigers.org/funstuff/writestory.php
http://www.savethetigerfund.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home1
http://class2milverton.edublogs.org/ -useful video links on here for info on our folk tales !
Big Writing Task – Talk for Writing
Well done for writing a brilliant recount of the North American Indian folk tale last week – we shall, hopefully be retelling some of these around the campfire (weather permitting)! Please come and read them!
This week we will be reading an Indian folk tale called ‘The Tiger Child’ by the same author (Joanna Troughton).
This week’s task is to retell the story using the traditional story telling language. As last week, we will be focussing on dialogue, as well as correct punctuation and writing in sentences, etc. You can describe the settings and the characters in more detail by adding your own WOW words- collect them from any sources that you like.
Being a traditional tale means that it has been TOLD rather than written down – it has parts that repeat to make it easier for people to remember the story. The features of traditional stories that we have talked about are, as follows:
All these settings would have been familiar to people in the ‘olden days’ because many more people lived and made their livings from the land like some English Traditional Tales – Little Red Riding Hood, Billy Goats Gruff. Discuss the ‘moral’ to these stories. What is the moral of the Tiger Child? (Don’t dawdle when carrying out an errand – you will forget what to do). Explain that some traditional tales are explanations as well as having a moral. What does Tiger Child explain? (Cats as pets).
**Your child will come home with pictures to retell the story and a story plan writing frame to help you and your child to plan together.
Thank you for your continued support. If you need any further advice and guidance – please come and see me or email misspennington@gmail.com
Our Literacy work this week will be based on a folk tale from India – I thought this video might be interesting! I hope it works!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/catching-prawns-in-india-ray-mears-extreme-survival/995929367
Well- what a fun day we have had today! Lots of art activities -Marbling,stick weaving, origami, mask-making, junk modelling, threading beads and designing our own T-shirt! Thanks to all the adult helpers who volunteered to help us. We hope you enjoyed sharing our learning and fun!
Well done children for filling the marble jar again- and we will look forward to our next Class 2 celebration!
http://www.milvertonprimary.co.uk/class2.htm
Here is a link to our Class 2 page on our website- now fully updated and ready to roll! Any class letters that are sent out will be sent to our website manager straight away and they usually appear the next day- very efficient!:-)
I will also put a link to the site under links on here!
Enjoy!
What an exciting day we have had! Snow in Somerset!
I hope you all had a safe journey home!:-) Happy snowman building!
Well done to everyone who planned with their child for the story writing task last week- it really helps the children to talk about the story and retell and innovate it to different people. Thank you.
Talk for Writing
We are reading ‘How Rabbit Stole the Fire’ which is a North American folktale. Your task this week is to retell this story. Discuss what happens in the story using the story map that your child has drawn today on the back of this sheet. This story has animals that speak, and also has repeating parts, it uses familiar settings (the forest and the forest animals), and it gives an explanation for how we got fire on earth. This is a traditional tale from North America -maybe do some research about the setting with your child and gather WOW words that describe this setting.
This week, the main focus is on the use of dialogue in our stories- putting speech marks in the correct places (as well as correct punctuation, neat handwriting writing in sentences and using WOW words).
Please encourage your child to retell the story in sentences so that they realise where they may need a full stop or commas, etc.
Please come and read your child’s Big Writing book so that you know what their next target is.
Click here for this video – we will be reading about this in our story this week!
