Description Writing - Our Creature Zoo

Mr Lewzey read us the Gruffalo where we learned that the mouse was giving the other animals in the story a description of the Gruffalo.  Here is a video of the story if you have not heard it before:

We decided that we were going to create our own creature zoo where we were able to write some descriptions of creatures that we made up.  We now know that we need the following parts of a description:

• An introduction to introduce our creature.
• Characteristics to help describe our creature.
• Some information that helps us show our thoughts or feelings about our creature.

Here are our descriptions - we were able to refine these by reading them to others and checking to see if it made sense to our buddies.

We then got to create an picture of our creature to help show our readers what our descriptions could look like if they were to meet them.  Please come into the hub and see our creature zoo if you get a chance!

Lets get into writing for Term 2

Today Mr Lewzey asked us to tell him what we wanted to write about for this term.  Look at all our ideas we have written on the post it notes - we cannot wait to start exploring some of these topics!

Oobleck - Recount Writing

Oobleck - it is a weird mixture!

Look at this video about our oobleck making experience!

As a group, we were really excited to write recounts about our oobleck making experience.  Please look at how we are using our sequence words - first, next, then and finally. 

We have also tried to stretch ourselves with our description writing - which description do you think suits the oobleck best?

Recount Writing - Making Play Dough

We have been learning about recount writing and used our experience a few weeks ago to write some recounts.  Please look at how we are using our sequence words like first, next, after that and finally.