Talk for writing

Since September we have been learning the story Little Red Riding hood off by heart. Year 4 have created some actions to help remember the story in the correct order.

This week the children  have made a story map, a story board or a story trail to record the events. Here they are, click on them for a larger view.

Take a close look, we have some amazing illustrators in Year 4. See if you can follow the story using the illustrations.

Talk homework

To prepare you for Big Write tomorrow can you show your family the actions to Mulenga and the Cherries.

Then change parts of the story creating new actions.

Have fun!

Talk homework

Tonight I would like you to share all your knowledge so far about our topic PYRAMIDS.

We've spent time researching in books,

looking at websites (one here for you) and watching the Ancient Egypt DVD with the talking cat.

Try to recall as much as you can.

Linking "Talk for writing" and investigations

Yesterday we read our next "Talk for writing" story written by Pie Corbett called Mulenga and the cherries

Here it is ..

It got us thinking.... Mulenga was very clever when he waited for the grocer to grab a handful of cherries. Can you think of reasons why he did this?
We all compared the size of our hands and realised they were all similar in size, apart from Mr Walls, his hand was huge.

This afternoon Mr Walls asked the class a question,

Can boys pick up more items than girls? If so, why?

So, the class designed an investigation to find out the answer to the question. Tomorrow they will record their findings using Textease spreadsheet.

What did you find out?

Write back and let me know.