English
The Abominables
We have been following a lady called Agatha and a family of yetis! They live high on a Himalayan mountain. At the beginning of the book - Lady Agatha was SNATCHED by an evil, angry yeti... or so we thought. We found out that he is a brave, kind and noble beast whos family is in danger. He desperately needs Lady Agatha's help! We have been using noun phrases, fronted adverbials, inverted commas and similes and metaphors within our classwork!
The Abominables
Journey to Jo'burg
We have got to know Naledi and Tiro from reading the first few chapters, and we also found out what happens when they arrive in Jo'burg after their long, tiring journey. We have thought about reasons why they should travel to Jo'burg and reasons why they shouldn't. We have also written some wonderful diary entries, as if we were Naledi and Tiro, thinking about how it must have felt to travel all that way to try and find Mma and bring her back to their village.
Journey to Jo'burg
Windrush Child by John Agard
During our poetry week, we studied John Agard's poem, Windrush Child. Between 1948 and 1971, people arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries travelling on the ship MV Empire Windrush. The people who travelled from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, are often referred to
as the Windrush generation. When they arrived in the UK, they found they were not as welcome as they had expected. John Agard's poem gives us a picture of the Caribbean surroundings that they came from. We noticed rhyming, personification, prepositions and repetition in his poem. We created our own Windrush poem with a twist! Our poems give an image of what it would have been like arriving in Britain post war time.
Kyanne's Windrush Poem
Windrush Child
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Our first book this year, was The Witches. We published some fantastic pieces of work comparing different witches, writing a character description of the Grand High Witch. We remembered to include similes, compare and contrast conjunctions and our SPLAT words. We got to know exactly what to look for when spotting a witch...
Watch out for those gloves!
The Witches
