Flotsam by David Wiesner

This week in literacy we are going to be using the picture book 'Flotsam' by David Wiesner to encourage imagination and description. It is a fantastic story with lots of opportunity for description and development of own opinion and ideas. You can watch  brief introduction for the story here...

The Story Of The Ugly Sharkling

Next week we are going to be watching The Story of The Ugly Sharkling by Maia Walczak. We will be having a go at writing persuasive pieces to persuade someone which animal should be your best friend and why (like Harry the spider) and also playscripts to show dialogue between little
Phil, Harry and the shark. You can watch the story here...

Fantasia!!!!!

In literacy this week we are focusing on the clip from Fantasia 'The Sorcerers Apprentice' and discussing the roles of the different characters and what we would magic if we were a Sorcerer!!

You can watch it and discuss your ideas here...

Drama Inspired by Maia Walczak 'The Black Hat'

Last week in literacy we were comparing other text by 'Maia Walczak' to the 'Silent Blue Book' we looked at the week before. One of the text we were examining was 'The Black Hat' and we enjoyed making our own pieces of drama up to represent how we would react if we found a magical black hat in the woods.

We all really enjoyed making up our own mini performances and we decided we wanted to take part in more drama across the curriculum! Here we are engaged in the moment...

 

You can enjoy the story by clicking on the picture below..

Visual Literacy 'The Silent Red Book' Maia Walczak

Next week in literacy, we are going to be watching 'The Silent Red Book' by Maia Walczaka and comparing it to the text we watched last week, The Silent Blue Book. When you watch it, think about the characters, describe them, where do we think they have come from? What happens when they meet?

What is similar to 'The Silent Blue Book', what links can you make? How does the story make you feel as you watch it? Can you add what you think the characters might be saying and thinking?

Visual Literacy: Silent Blue Book

This week in literacy we have been using our inference skills to pick apart a visual text called 'The Silent Blue Book' by Maia Walczak. There was no talking on the text, just music and we were working together to decide what we thought the story was about, what the author was trying to portray and how we felt about the text. Some of us found it so emotional it brought a few tears!! Here we are sharing ideas, listening to each other and writing our views.

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 Jan 25th 2013

 

Jodie

 

Jodie amazed me with her wonderful description. I found her story so exciting and interesting to read because of all the ambitious vocabulary! Super story Jodie!

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?

Visual Literacy: The Journey: John Lewis Christmas Advert 2012

This week in literacy we have been using the very popular John Lewis Christmas advert 'The Journey' to help us with our inference and deduction skills....looking deeply into texts to understand meaning and develop our ideas.

You can watch it below... Our Big Write tomorrow will also be based around this piece of film.

Here we are very engaged and producing some fantastic sentences and pieces of writing... I was astounded and the quality of writing and ideas you were all coming up with. Fantastic vocabulary being used and some interesting ideas about the snowman and snowlady we didn't think of at first!!

Visual Literacy: The Journey, John Lewis 2012 on PhotoPeach

George's Marvellous Medicine!

In literacy we are currently developing our instructional text writing skills and this week we are writing instructions to make our own marvellous medicine, following on from reading Roald Dahl's classic, 'George's Marvellous Medicine'.

You can listen to an audio version of the story here...

Can you think of a set of instructions to make your own marvellous medicine? What ingredients would you put into into it?

Can you describe this potion using your VCOP skills?