Over the last few weeks in English we have been learning about fantasy texts. We learnt the story ‘My Garden’ using a story map and actions to help us, and of course remembered to practise telling it with expression.
Once we knew the story really well we looked at a written version of the text and identified the features that were included in the story. We found alliteration, similes and different sentence types.
We sorted some of the sentences from the story into the different sentence types to help us remember them.
This week we have been working in our classes to innovate ‘My Garden’ using our school as a stimulus. We worked hard to make sure we included all the features and practised telling it out loud. Finally we were ready to write down our new story. Take a look at some of our super work.
WORLD BOOK DAY REMINDER:
It is World Book Day on the 6th March. We will be looking at the text ‘ Here we are’ and we will be completing several activities throughout the day based on this exciting text. Between 8.45-9.15 we are inviting parents and guardians to come in and read with their child to celebrate and promote reading for pleasure. If you can make it into Bear class and Giraffe class to hear your child read we would greatly appreciate it!
How to help at home
- Identify where fantasy has been used in other stories you read.
- Hunt for the different sentences types used in texts you read, alliteration and similes.
- Talk about ideas for a new fantasy story. What setting could you use?
- Keep going with the weekly handwriting homework, it really does help your writing.