Book Reviews - Clever Crazy Club and Party Pack Reading Groups

The last week we have been practicing our summarising and retelling skills with creating a book review for other learners to learn about the series that we are currently reading.

Take a look at our reviews and see what book you might like to pick up!  If you have any feedback for us, please leave us a comment!

Haiku Poems with our Alliteration Identities

Last week we have been learning about haiku poems.

Traditional haiku are always the same, including the following features:

1. There are only three lines, totalling 17 syllables.
2. The first line is 5 syllabels.
3. The second line is 7 syllables.
4. The third line is 5 syllables like the first.
5. A haiku does not have to rhyme, in fact usually it does not rhyme at all.

Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds.  We made the connection that this is similar to our alliteration learning earlier in the term.

We also made the connection that learning about syllables is similar to the learning we have doing around building our knowledge about word attack.  We also wanted to write about our super hero or villains again.

Alliteration Superheroes - Part Two!

We decided to explore alliteration in reading this week when Mr Lewzey shared with us this book:

We decided that we wanted to become either super heroes or villains and use some alliteration to help describe our abilities and other information that we wanted to share with you.

Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think about our new identities!

Anzac Ted

Mr Lewzey read us the book 'Anzac Ted' this week - this is a story about a teddy bear who went to World War One and then returned home where he was passed through the family to the soldier's grandson who brought him to school to share at a Toy Show.

Here is a YouTube recording of the story if you want to listen to it:

As a follow up activity, we had to imagine that we were Anzac Ted and write a letter to the boy's class explaining our back story.  Here are some of letters:

ARLO:

JACK:

LUCY:

ELLE: