Instruction Texts and Forest Layers

Year One

In Year One, the children have been exploring the features of instruction texts. They created actions to help them remember each of the features.

Title

Introduction

What you need

Method

Top Tip

Year Two

As part of their Rainforest theme, Year Two have written poems inspired by the rainforest.

Success Criteria

I can see beautiful blossoms.
I can see spiky thorns.
I can see a tree as big as a plane.
I can see brown bark on the tree.
I can hear birds singing.
I can feel melting branches.
I can smell fire.
Someone is trying to burn the rainforest down.
Preston 2F

The forest floor is very quiet.
A long poison snake slithers in the leaves
A colourful monkey spying on the snake’s delicious food.
Alfie 2F

Meanwhile, in geography, Year Two have been getting creative outdoors by using natural resources to produce a representation of the layers in the rainforest. They had to use their reasoning skills to explain to their peers why they chose a certain leaf or stick for their picture.

“I chose this leaf for the understorey because it is big enough to catch water and sunlight from the canopy and emergent layer.”
 Jack

“I found a furry feather. I am going to use it to represent the birds in the rainforest.”
Massimo

“I need something for the tree trunk otherwise the leaves have nothing to grow off of.”
Krish

“I used scrunched up dead leaves for moss because hardly any light gets to the forest floor. That means the plants can’t grow that big.”
Alfie

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