After much hard work, Year 3 have published their adventure stories. Each book has 5 planned chapters, individually designed front covers, blurb and information about the author. The books are on display in their classroom until Tuesday next week, if you would like to have a look……..
We stumbled upon this cool website today and I thought you might like to try it at home.
You can upload an image and the program will convert it for you. Here is a photo and its conversion is below:
Effective isn’t it? You could upload an image of a landscape and then colour it in yourself.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at a Literacy Conference about some of the amazing writing our children had done when we had our adventures in Atrius’s Land eralier this year. I was very proud to be reading out some of the children’s work in front of 35 Literacy experts!
After my session, I sat in on another session where the presenters were speaking about improving and playing with sentence structure. Here we are having a go at the same session in our class. We all loved it!
The initial sentence was The dog jumped on the wall. We spoke about how if we all read this sentence we would get 27 different ideas about the dog, the wall, the timing, the intent etc so we all agreed the sentence needed improving. Here’s a short video which shows us improving the sentence and then challenging abother group to reconstruct our imrpoved sentence. We even had a go at remembering these new fantastic sentences!
As always, be patient while it loads. Enjoy!
Friday’s choosing time found Lottie and friends drawing a map and pictures of some of the animals we had seen on African Safari….
… while Ellie and friends worked on their own story about Mantu the elephant.
Day 6 found us in dangerous territory, getting far too close to the animals. This is how Year 2 described their adventure.
Daniel
The elephants were cool because we went down the waterfall and they were suddenly there. I found out a really interesting fact because I didn’t know that elephants have 100,000 muscles in their trunk….The elephants were using their noses as snorkels.
Charlotte J
We were following the river… We splashed against diagonal rocks. Down at the bottom there were some elephants grazing in an open space. From the corner of my eye I spotted some zebras drinking, hidden behind the grey, ginormous elephants.
Alex B
Today was the most panicking but most amazing day because our bar went to the red… My heart was pounding with fear because we were far too close to the animals.
Christopher S
A mother elephant washes its baby by sucking up water and spraying the baby two or three times. There was an elephant using its trunk as a snorkel because it wanted to swim underwater. Near a shallow river there was long grass. In the long thick grass there were some small and big warthogs stamping on the ground.
Lily
By the water hole at the elephants’ side were lots of zebras drinking from the river but they never got splashed by the elephants. As well as the elephants using their trunks to spray the babies, some were wading into the water and sticking up their trunks like snorkels…. Just then the elephants from the water hole shouted out their war cry and retreated from the zebras.
While some children controlled the game other children, as observers, wrote notes to help them write their journal entries later. Here are William’s -excellent work for children just learning to make notes.
These journals are being made into books with covers inspired by African fabric we have looked at….
…and will include illustrated maps of Africa.
As well as having fantastic adventures and learning how to use the African Safari Wii game, Year 2 have discovered lots of information about the many animals that live in the Serengeti. They used some of the elephant facts to make a page of information about animals.
by Sam and Christopher C
Year 1 and 2 feel superfit after their walk down to Ashfield to take part in a range of sports activities in mixed teams with 4 other local schools. Well done to all the children for taking part so enthusiastically.
Year 2 entered a competition to grow potatoes, and since March Mrs Raybould, ably supported by Mrs Raw, has been tending to the plants.
They were harvested in time to enter the competition. In maths this morning Year 2 found out everything they could think of about the two types of potato.
We grew 1,444g or 1.444kg in total. The difference in the weight of the two crops was only 8g. The heaviest single potato was 85g and the lightest 1g – a difference of 84g. One type produced 22 potatoes, the other 28, so 50 in total and a difference of 6.
All that is left to decide is how we share 50 potatoes amongst 30 children fairly. And of course, to cook an eat them!
What a great success! Well done everyone!
Below is a little montage – takes a while to load so be patient!
Once again, Year 5 enjoyed an excellent day at Nell Bank Outdoor Education Centre in Ilkley.
Hopefully, this slideshow will give you a taste of some of the activities we enjoyed during our visit.
