Amazing Grace
Today, Year 3 Obama had a hot seating session focused on the characters in Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman. They took on the roles of Grace, Raj and Natalie and were able to ask a range of open ended questions.
English
Titles
This week we explored the title of our class text. We then thought of an alternative!
Published Piece – Character description
We worked really hard on our first published piece. We used adjectives to describe the character Duck from our story Pumpkin Soup.
What would dog skeleton say if he could talk?
In reading, we made inferences as to what we thought dog skeleton would say if he could talk!
Collaboration Tier Two Vocab…
As a reminder of key vocabulary, children reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, recalled prior knowledge by working together to match definitions to vocabulary at the start of their reading comprehension lesson.
Stick Insect
We have been adding actions to one of the poems from Cloud Soup by Kate Wakeling.
17.9.25. Character description
We have been learning how to choose adjectives to describe the characters and places from Pumpkin Soup.
Expanded noun phrases
We have used our knowledge of adjectives and nouns to help us create expanded noun phrases to describe the characters and settings in ‘Pumpkin Soup’.
Conscience Alley
We used conscience alley to explore the thoughts and feelings of the characters from the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’.
Freeze Framest
We used freeze frames to show how we thought Duck, Cat and Squirrel would feel at different points in the story.
Using drama to explore character emotions.
We explored how the characters in the story might feel and created a conscience alley where the children whispered those thoughts and emotions to the character.
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