I have copied your child’s Big Writing from last week so that you can talk about the different scenes and anything extra that your child would like to add.
(If you have a computer and find any images of the story that your child would like to use please put them onto a CD and your child can use them in the lesson on Thursday).
This is another version of a Cinderella story – please watch this at home with your parents – as the school network will filter this. What are the differences? This will give you an idea of how we will publish our story next week!
Thank you, once again, those of you who have planned and talked with your child. It really is beneficial for their writing development – and I am seeing real progress being made – come and have a look this week! Talking to your child about the task also helps home/school links and enables you to find out what your child is learning in class in the week.
Talk for Writing
This week to round up our unit on Traditional Tales, we are retelling the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. On Thursday the children’s task is to write the story from the point of view of the Troll just like last week’s story of the The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs this story was told from the point of view of the wolf. Brainstorm some ideas for reasons the troll might give for jumping up and how the story might look if told from his point of view… Discuss how they might want to write the troll’s story in a modern setting, just as The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs has done. If you want to borrow the story from last week please come in and I can pass it round to families.
The children will be spending two literacy sessions on this story so they can write a really good story. One session for writing and one session for illustrating. They do not need to write lots – it is more important that what they write is good!
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!
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!
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:
animals that think and speak like people.
Some parts that repeat / Things often happen in threes.
Often a moral or an explanation.
Often uses familiar settings – the wood/forest, jungle, village…
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
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!
