Year 4 - Describing Our Palaces

L.O. To include a metaphor in a location description.

You've designed some brilliant Palaces for the Queen of the Blazing World. In class, we began to describe them, but we only concentrated on using metaphor.

Homework: There are two parts to the homework:

1. Complete the 'Metaphor' sheet we began in class - come up with 7 or 8 metaphors to describe your palace.

2. Then write a full description of your palace, using the five senses, colours and similes - and make sure you've included at least one metaphor from the list you began in class!

Download and print another copy of our 'Metaphor Game' by clicking here.

Year 4 Fiction - A Blazing World - Describing Your Submarine!

L.O. To include a range of prepositions in a passage of description.

In class, we used kinasthetic learning techniques to study prepositions, and we learnt how we can use prepositions to make our descriptions 'flow'. For homework, I would like you to finish describing your submarine, using our descriptive tools, and plenty of prepositions. Aim to write about half-a-side of A4. Click here to revise our descriptive techniques

Feeling clever? Remember to include some figuarative language (similes)

Next week, we will be scanning our pictures into our page on the school pupil wiki, and recording our descriptions using a microphone on a Voicethread!

Year 4 Fiction - A Blazing World!

Our elder world, with all their skill and arts
Could but divide the world into three parts.
Columbus then for navigation famed
Found a new world, America 'tis named.
Now this new world was found, it was not made,
Only discovered lying in time's shade.
Then what are you, having no chaos found
To make a world, or any such least ground?
But your creating fancy thought it fit
To make your world of nothing but pure wit.
Your blazing world beyond the stars mounts higher,
Enlightens all with a celestial fire.
--William Newcastle

Year 4 are going to be writing stories set in imaginary worlds! This term, they'll have the chance to create a podcast, and we'll begin to explore digital stories!

L.O. To understand that authors use sketches and drawings to inspire imaginary worlds

We are going to explore a strange planet known as 'The Blazing World'. We'll write stories set in this world, play around with digital photographs to create locations, and record a podcast of our adventures! But to do so we'll going to need a ship!

The Blazing World is made up of a series of extremely odd islands! You need to design the submarine used to explore these islands!

Homework: Create a 'finished' draft of your own 'cut away' on a sheet of blank A4. Label it carefully with a ruler and pencil. We'll be writing a story based on this ship next week! (P.S. You can make the ship 'girly', if you like: why shouldn't the crew have soft furnishings, a pony trek room and a make-up salon!)

We'll scan the finished designs, and display them on the blog using bubbleshare!

P.S. Don't forget your parents to e-mail and sign-up for the Falcons School for Girls book club!