Literacy and ICT - The Seaside

We started our seaside topic today by making our own stories about the seaside using the 2-Publisher software on 'Purple Mash'. We made sure our stories had a beginning middle and end and tried to include our VCOP skills we have been learning over the year. Here some of us are using the mini laptops to make our stories...

Visual Literacy 'The Silent Blue Book'

Next week in literacy, we are going to be extending our pirate topic further and reading 'The Spell Shell'  by Roderick Hunt and then developing our interpreting skills by looking at 'The Silent Blue Book' by Maia Walczak. It is a piece of text with no words and we are going to be deciding what we think is happening to the character, her feelings, where she goes and why and what is the relevance of the fox.

You can watch it here....

This video is taken from http://www.literacyshed.com/the-maia-walczak-shed.html feel free to look at the authors other texts.

Big Write Star!! 18th January 2013

 

Connor

 

Connor use some adventurous vocabulary in his story about the pirate chest. He included great description, and developed his story with a beginning, sequence of events and an ending. He also had beautiful handwriting with carefully formed letters.

A surprise for us!!

This morning when we came into class, we had a surprise package. We passed it round the circle and guessed what we thought it might be, some people thought it was sugar, some thought it was a map and some thought it was empty!!

When Jack opened it for us we found a message in a bottle from a pirate!!

We read it carefully and found out the pirate had sent it from a ship on the Atlantic Ocean and his ship had been invaded by sneaky pirates trying to steal their treasure!! Can you remember what he said he had been busy doing? This week in literacy we are writing replies......What would you write if you were putting a message in a bottle?