Year 5 - Wiki-work: Writing Instructions!

This is a special moment: your first ever wiki-based homework!

Your task is to go online and complete your instructions for making your model. Don't forget that your wiki page is going to be marked out of 100, so read this before you finish your instructions!

Happy wiki-work!

Year 6 Revision - The 'Messi Wiggle'

L.O. To revise the importance of a varied prose style

In class, we've often talked about trying to fit in all our sentence types and forms of punctuation in the opening 6-7 lines of our stories:

Fragments
Impact sentences
Simple sentences
Compound sentences
Bracket
Dash
Semi-colon
Colon

Homework: The first six-seven lines of a short story entitled 'Down on the Farm'. Include all of the punctuation above! Then come onto the blog and type your work up in the comments section! Remember, only write six-seven lines!

Year 5 - Comprehension - Jane Blonde Transforms!

Her name's Blonde - Jane Blonde.

L.O. To understand that we can infer information about characters from the text

Your homework is to complete the Jane Blonde comprehension. Study the use of descriptive skills (you'll need these on Friday when you redraft your longer description on our pupil wiki), and think about inference! Click here to learn more about how the Grumpy Examiner asks questions about inference.

I will award bonus points for pupils who include the word 'infer' in their answers!

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!

Fun Stuff!

adopt your own virtual pet!

I thought you'd like to meet my cat, Mr Evelyn Paw. Click on the cat, or the 'more' button, and see what happens!

Secret HQ Pictures

BubbleShare: Share photos - Safe Toys

Enjoy Year 5's secret HQ models! Please post them a comment if you enjoyed them!

Join the Falcons Newsroom Club - Tuesday afternoons

Fans of blogging, podcasting and wiki-work will love Mr Allan's Falcons Newsroom club.

You'll be able to write, create and star in your own news programme. You'll be using the school camcorder to help write and direct a Falcons news film. Everyone who takes part will get a copy of the finished masterpiece.

There are still some places avaliable, so make sure you sign up on Monday.