Welcome back and a Happy New Year! The children have returned with stories of Christmas joy and new year excitement.
We got stuck in straight away with our learning this week. In English, we started to learn our new story: The Great Kapok Tree. We learnt the story which is based in a rainforest and linked it to our learning about the equator in Geography.
We began with a recap on how to make a sentence make sense. We used helpful colourful semantics (a writing structure that enables the children to understand how to make a sentence make sense). It reminded us to always use a who (the noun), a what doing (verb), a what and a where. We then made sentences linked to our class story. Take a look below:
The story has a lot of adverbs in the sentences so of course, we had to learn about them this week. Having already learnt about verbs last term, we knew that verbs are the doing words and learnt that adverbs add description to the verb. This could be about how, where or when the verb is being done, for example ‘The smaller man immediately struck the tree with an axe.’ Look below at some of our work:
How to help at home:
- Do some daily sentence writing, ask your child to include a who, what doing, what and where.
- Ask your child to retell the story using the text map.
- Give your child a sentence with an adverb in and ask them to spot it in the sentence.