Green class have reached the end of the Loosing Tale unit of writing. Over the past three weeks we have used actions to help us learn the Tale of Daft Jack, a story written by Laurence Anholt.
We have explored different sentence types to improve our writing, had a go at making some small changes to the original story before re-writing and this week we have applied what has been learnt by creating our own Losing Tales.
Have a look at our story maps and see if you can work out our story ideas.
What is a Losing Tale?
This is a story with five clear parts.
Opening where the main character (MC) has something precious.
Build up MC sets off with the precious item.
Problem MC loses the precious item and has to search for it and face the consequences.
Resolution The precious item is found.
Ending MC vows to keep the item safe and reflects on their feelings or learns a lesson.
This week in Science we have worked collaboratively to produce a classification for living things. Some groups had to classify butterflies others birds and one group had to classify bumblebees.
In order to do this successfully the children had to ask suitable questions, observe characteristics of the species and classify accordingly. The results were then presented to the class.
This week in Science we have been exploring Chinese New Year through our senses. We used all of our five senses to explore how chinese people celebrate the start of their new year. We have been using our taste buds to try some yummy noodles and prawn crackers and our ears to listen to a Chinese celebration on the ipads. We worked in our groups to think of lots of adjectives to describe what we were smelling, tasting, touching, hearing and seeing.
This week in PHSE we continued circle time, the other half of the class had to use small mirrors to look at themselves making different faces and discuss it with the rest of the children.
Children worked very well in a team and there was good discussion.
I’m in PHSE this week we talked about feelings and how they can manage them. We talked about who they can talk to when feeling sad or worried. We also talked about behaviour and how we could calm ourselves down if we ever got angry.
In circle time the children had to use small mirrors to look at themselves making different faces and discuss it with the rest of the children.
The children’s weekly visit to James Memorial Homes is a time they all look forward to. Serving refreshments for the residents and local elderly people is great for bridging age gaps in the community. This week, the children met a range of fun loving and interesting characters. A lady who has seven hedgehogs, a 70 Year old woman, who is called the ‘Dancing Queen’ by her friends, as she loves to dance and not forgetting Violet who is an amazing 91 Years old! She was able to share with the children the joys of having a tin bath in-front of the fire and how being scared of spiders was not good when your toilet was outside.
This week in Reception we received a letter from the little old lady asking us to look after the Gingerbread Man whilst she was on holiday. We tried our best but he just keep on running away from us shouting “run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”. We decided to make missing posters to spread the news that he had ran away. Luckily, we found him on Friday and he brought us some delicious treats to say sorry for running away.
This week Year 2 has gone pirate crazy! We have been writing pirate stories and writing character descriptions to see if we can find the terrible Pirate Pete! He is wanted for stealing the treasure map off the Queen and trying to take all of the treasure. If you see him, let someone in Year 2 know!
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