Buzzard update

Buzzards have been really busy this week as always.
In guided reading they have been looking at how authors use figurative language to create atmosphere in texts such as the Iron Man and Kensuke's Kingdom. They are also learning to precis text.

In spelling we have been focusing on learning the statutory word lists for Key Stage 2 in lots of different ways.
In our writing lessons we have finished redrafting our poetry about stepping into a magical world through a portal and thinking about how we can use expanded noun phrases, commas in lists, alliteration, simile and the colon. Our display looks amazing!
We are now looking closely at the underlying structure for a portal story and beginning to plan our own, thinking about the audience we are writing for (we have decided this will be anyone from children to adults at home) and being imaginative with our own ideas. We have also
examined how other authors - other than ourselves- write a fantastic portal story, e.g. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and a few others!

Our writer’s toolkit is growing weekly and we look forward to seeing fronted adverbials, a range of sentence structures, great description and
dialogue to move the action on in our stories and make it the most irresistible narrative writing ever!
In maths we have really begun to master addition and subtraction and the use of column methods of subtraction. Multiplication and division next.... Keep up the great work Buzzards... and we aim to finish reading Beetle Boy soon! Gripping stuff! Darkus has a plan to rescue the beetles and his dad.... what will happen....will he do it? We will find out soon!