Penguins and Punctuation

Year One

This week in Literacy we have moved onto our non-fiction unit.  In keeping with our Polar Regions theme, we have been exploring non-chronological reports about penguins. First we learned about the different features of a non-chronological report:

• Title 
• Introduction
• Subheadings 
• Final point
• Technical language 

 On Wednesday a penguin expert came to share her knowledge about penguins:

We worked as a class to generate questions to ask her. We discovered that when we asked a question beginning with who, what, when, where, why or how we got a much richer answer.

 1M

After her visit, we felt like penguin experts too. We decided to work in pairs to interview each other about our emperor penguin knowledge:

Children in 1D interviewing each other

Year Two

In History we have been learning to sequence the events of The Great Fire Of London.

Sophia-Mai

We also attended a grammar show...

"We had to find the capital letters in the piece of writing" Ashwin 2D

"Captain Grammaticus was helping us to find adjectives." Ervin 2D

“Captain Grammaticus taught us how to use exclamation marks correctly.” Oli 2F

“It’s helped me to up-level my wiritng.” Phoebe 2F

“I really enjoyed seeing  Captain Grammaticus win the trophy for writer of the year.” Lilly 2F

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