This week we have been looking at Biographies. We look forward to writing a biography about Florence Nightingale later. Today we wanted to improve our confidence in speaking. We worked in groups and role-played interviewing Florence Nightingale. Lots of us did really well although we all got a bit camera shy when Mr Lo started filming!
We have now learnt our first full story using Talk for Writing. We have learnt the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed learning it.
In English this half term we have started our topic, “traditional tales”. We have looked closely at the story of Little Red Riding hood and discussed why there are many versions. Throughout the week we will be writing sentences, making sure we use capital letters and full stops , adding conjunctions and expanding our vocabulary. We have already looked at the words, crimson, rapidly, azure and around.
In spellings we will be looking at the year 2 common exception words, poor, floor, door, because and find. We will also continue reviewing our phonics knowledge and applying our skills for dictation.
In Phonics we have looked at alternative graphemes (letters) for the short-vowel phonemes and applying the best-fit-rules in words.
Toucans are now familiar with the features of instruction writing. They have a title, sub-titles, bullet points or numbered lists. They use imperative verbs and some adverbs.
Today we started our new writing project. First we discussed what is the correct way to brush out teeth.
We then worked in pairs listening and giving instructions on how to brush your teeth.
We look forward to putting our ideas onto pen and paper this week.
Today in phonics we recapped all the learning we have done so far. We were very proud of ourselves as we remembered a lot ! Many of us were also able to write an example word For each phoneme .
In English we have been learning about imperative verbs (bossy verbs)
How many imperative verbs can you spot in the video below?
We also looked at existing instructions to identify the features. Some of us even spotted features that were on some but missing on others! Excellent spotting!
Finally as a class we came up with our own success criteria on how to write instructions.
We then listened to Mr Lo read another piece of writing. This time it was telling us what we did. It was in the past tense. Today we then talked about how instructions are written in the present tense ( now). We reviewed our understanding of verbs by doing Today I play, Yesterday I played! Today I bake, Yesterday I baked! We also discussed how some verbs are tricky. Today I run, Yesterday I ran!
Toucans are looking at instructional texts and all the skills that are needed to write their own. This week they have been comparing different sets of instructions aiming to find which one would be best to follow.
They read a book called How To Wash A Wooly Mammoth, which they found fun but also informative.
Year 2 did an amazing job at spotting great instructions and followed them to make their very own Toucan mask! With a lot of perseverance and a little help, the Toucans made their amazing masks.
