In English we are learning about reports.
When we came into school on Tuesday morning, we were quite shocked because our classrooms had been messed up! It looked like there had been an intruder! We used our detective skills to look for clues as to who it could have been.
We found purple prickles, brown fur, a mouse and some debris from the forest. We decided it had to have been a Gruffalo!
This week we have been working hard to learn a report about gruffalos. We made a text map to support our learning and added actions too. Have a look on Seesaw to see us telling the Gruffalo report.
To help us remember our text map we have been learning and using Makaton signs. Here is a link to the Makaton Gruffalo song if you would like to give it a go at home, too!
Then we thought carefully about sentences. We remembered that a sentence needs a ‘who’ and a ‘what’ in order for it to make sense. We read some phrases written by our teachers and decided whether it was a sentence or not. Then we worked hard to turn the non – sentences into sentences.
The children really enjoyed learning the Gruffalo report so we stayed with the theme during Fiddly Fingers and Mini Explorers. Here are some pictures of us developing our fine motor skills and creating a Gruffalo in the forest with natural materials.
How to support at home
- Visit the library and look for information books about something that interests you.
- Make a fact file about something you know lots about.
- Write some sentences and phrases for your adult – can they tell you which ones are sentences and which ones aren’t?