Literacy
8 June 2020
Please listen to Mrs C reading this superb collection of poems. What words do you notice that rhyme? Which was your favourite sea creature?(mine is the angel fish!) Could you write and illustrate a poem about an animal on land or sea? Finally, did you spot all the star fish hiding on each page?!
20 May 2020 The Snail and the Whale
I hope you enjoyed this magnificent story. Also here is the link for the excellent cartoon adaptation. Can you see any differences? Also you might like to write the story as a script or as a diary entry from either the snail or whales's perspective.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale
Monday's story! 18.5.20
Could you write your own story based on Little Beaver and the Echo? You could change the setting and animals.
Mrs C's fraction story!
Please write down the words which rhyme. For example, too and through or share and fair
Story The Selfish Crocodile
Story time
Monday 11th of May 2020
Please practise and develop your Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar skills (SPaG) with this super game:
Now please practise your skills of using commas in a list with these super activities below. Remember to not use a comma next to and.
A classic from Mrs C! 7.5.20
Mrs Chetcuti's latest wonderful story!
After listening to the story please could you do one of these tasks.
1. Write a newspaper article based on the story explaining the misunderstood wolf's story.
2. Make a comic which summarises the story
3. Draw a picture of your favourite part of the story and write about why it appealed to you.
Another Mrs C story for you to enjoy and write about!
27 April 2020
Poetry
If you are interested in poetry this is a free competition to enter on the theme of 'hope'. https://www.discoverdylanthomas.com/love-the-words-competition-2020 The deadline is very soon I'm afraid (1st May) but it might be something nice to work on with a grown up, even if you don't enter! Please send in any completed poems, we would love to read them!
Along the same theme, you can read some great stories and poems by children's authors about hope online in this new book: https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/
SPaG
Here are some fun SPaG games to play:
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zdp4pg8
https://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/noun/balloon_game/
Using capital letters, full stops and conjunctions (a lesson by BBC Bitesize):