This term, in the Flamingo Class, we have been thinking about how we can explain our ideas to someone else. Writing an explanation, it appears, is harder than you’d think!
To help us remember the structure of an explanation text, we have been learning a Talking Text! At first, we thought Mr Toby had gone mad! The talking text didn’t look anything like a book we’d seen before.
This means we all learned to speak our text aloud, before writing anything down! This helped us a lot, as we were able to make sure we included titles, subheadings, full stops, commas and subordinating clauses. All of that without even writing a single word!
This week we have been busy using our talking text to help us write our own explanations, based on our science learning. It was amazing how we were all able to remember our full stops better!
Feel free to drop by Flamingo Class to check out our fantastic writing!
The Pelican class recently took a look at the artist Andy Warhol and in particular his vibrant portrait paintings. We took the children’s photographs and they painted on top of them using bright water colours. They then made their own background in Andy Warhol style printing. To do this they took a small rectangular piece of foam, carved a simple pattern on one side with a pencil, covered this with paint and used it as a stamp to make 4 prints. The results were simply eye catching!
