In English, the Robins in year 4 have been researching the layers of the Earth.
Previously this week, we have been looking at the features of a non-chronological report.
Today, We wrote information in note form and then thought about how we would organise it as an information text. We wrote it up neatly in our books (draft version) , making sure we included the features of a non-chronological report.
We look forward to seeing their final work later this week.
Robins have been planning and writing an introduction to their own fantasy stories.
First, Robins decided on their main characters, their build up, problem and resolution. Using our knowledge from our class reader, The Street Beneath My Feet, we chose a setting from the layers of the earth, like a cave.
Then, Robins started writing the beginning of their story, including fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases and interesting adjectives.
Unravelling the book, the sound of “ahhh” and “ooooo” was filling the classroom.
This morning we explored our new class reader. “The street beneath my feet.”
In groups we have marvelled at this double-sided foldout book. It has showed us a fascinating journey deep underground. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside. We look forward to reading it again tomorrow and writing a book review about it later!
This morning in Guided Reading, the Robins in year 4 were reading poems. We used reading strategies to support our reading, replacing words we didn’t know with blank, using skimming and scanning ad phonics knowledge.
We took it in turns to read poems and then found nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the poems we had read.