We had four star learners this week as we missed doing it last Friday. Well done to 

you all. You are working so hard, thinking and developing your ideas, listening to magpie ideas off others and being eager and excited to learn.

Well done to all the KS1 children our performance of The Puzzled Penguin was amazing. You all worked really hard learning your lines, the songs and all of the actions. The costumes looked fantastic and lots of people have said how good they thought it was. Well done St. Chad's superstars.

In English lessons this week we have been looking at poems. We looked at a virtual firework display on the board and used adjectives to describe what the fireworks looked like. We then thought about what the fireworks were doing and created our own verb brainstorms.

We read different  firework poems and talked about the features, for example, rhyming words, repetition etc. We completed some poems with missing words and then learnt it off by heart. We then wrote a firework poem as a whole class before writing our own. The poem on the thinking mat says-

The fireworks are zooming fast, up in the air.

The fireworks are popping like bubbles.

The fireworks are exploding like a volcano.

We have been reading different versions of the story George and the Dragon. We created our own puppets and in partners used these to tell the story in our own words. We are learning to use expression in our voice and we are trying to use different voices for different characters.

Our production of The Puzzled Penguin is on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. You do not need a ticket but space is limited so we ask that only parents and grandparents come to watch and for only one performance. Don't forget to order a DVD of the show at £5 each to show family and friends our little stars!

We have had lots of fun learning to add adjectives and similes into our writing to make it more exciting and interesting. We used TASC to help us to think and develop our ideas. Our challenge was to create a monster, the only rules were that it had to be able to be held in one hand, the playdoh had to be shared between three children and the monsters should all look different, just like people are all different. The children all chose their own materials and spent time creating their monsters adding and changing things as their design developed.Look at some of our creations!

We then created our own Monster Land. We had to use our imaginations and create a land where the monster could live, find food, sleep, learn  and have fun. We added captions using adjectives to explain our designs.

What super stars this week always listening, thinking and trying their best as well as looking our for and helping others in the class.