Stories based on The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy.

Over the past few weeks, Panthers class have been using The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy to write some amazing stories. They used the structure of her stories to then imagine their own emotion thief.

Below are some front covers that the children have completed. I have also included two reviews written by the children and a recount of our process.

A review of Kyle's story The Flabbergast Thief by Harley

I thought Kyle's story was really good. He used great words like: bright, scrapping and finally crashing. I would recommend this story to everyone. His writing told me about children's shock. I would rate him 4 and half stars.

A review of Kayleigh's story, The Envy Thief by Rachel
I enjoyed this story from start to end for all of the words she used. It had pristine similes, adjectives and verbs that made the atmosphere and the people seem real. Some of the people's envy was quite touching plus it had added information. All in all, a good story! 3 stars.

A recount of what our process was by William. 
The first thing we did was listened to the Tear Thief story a few times. Then we chose our emotion (I decided to do craziness). Next we planned our story in note form. Fourthly we wrote our own versions and then edited and read to KS1 and lastly we recorded our stories and the designed our front covers.

Poetry

This week we have been looking at poetry and how to create images in the readers minds using similes, onomatopoeias and interesting adjectives and verbs.

The class produce some interesting poems based on The Sound Collector by Roger McGough. If you've never heard it before, then look at the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zc6qxnb

Circus Fun and Cathedral trip

Over the last week our class have been lucky enough to take part in a circus workshop and be shown some amazing skills by incredibly talented people. Sadly the same can't be said for my trapeze skills as during the children's assembly last Friday I tried to spin on a trapeze and failed miserable. I'd never make it in the circus.

This week we spent the day at Norwich Cathedral. The class learnt all about the building and the Holy Trinity. Take a look at the pictures below to see what they were doing. The next time you are in school you can see the stain glass windows that the children made whilst they were there.

The class was also praised for their excellent behaviour throughout the day by the employees at the cathedral. Well done everyone.

Gardening

This year we have added gardening to our carousel of D.T. groups. This week the children took all of the dead plants out of the pots and then planted new bulbs that will hopefully flower in March and April. 

They were also lucky enough to find a newt and they safely moved it to near the pond. 

Next week we will be doing more planting and then tidying up certain areas of the school. 

If anyone has any plant pots-about bucket size- that they might wish to donate to the school they would be greatly received. 

Mr Hall

A super start.

The summer's is sadly over. Thankfully, all of the children have come back to school full of energy and passion for learning. They have been writing the origins of their own superheroes and have really impressed me with their wonderful imagination.

We have also begun to learn how to use the column method for addition and how to solve word problems.

A great start to the term.