Year Five Word Work - 'ssion'

Complete the 'ssion' worksheets, and then go onto our wiki and add your word to our A-Z.

Be careful that you type it in correctly! Write only one word down, please, so that every girl gets to add a word to the list.

Year 6 - D.T. day

Friday is DT day at FSG - so don't forget to bring in your materials, Year Six! We'll be blogging photos of the slippers, too, so don't forget to log on Saturday to enjoy our finished work!

Click here for a preview of our work tomorrow - you can see how another school went about constructing slippers.

Fun Stuff

This man is Groucho Marx, one of the funniest men of the 20th century. Enjoy

Year 5 Fiction - Action Techniques: Spy v.s. Shark!

L.O. To combine action techniques in a scene of action, including the use of powerful verbs

In class, we studied our action techniques, and we wrote some action scenes.

For homework, I want you to imagine you have been captured by your nemesis - and thrown into a pool infested with...sharks!

Write an action scene, describing your fear, and how you escape from the sharks. Try not to make it too gory! Your objective is to use all of our action techniques. Write a first draft in your book, and then type it up on your wiki page (you've got until Friday to do this).

Feeling clever? Think about how one-sentence paragraphs can add to the excitement

Don't forget to show how much it hurts, like this:



P.S. Make sure you read my comments on your suspense scenes - just click on the 'discussion' tab.

200 today!

This is the 200th post on this blog - and just look at the clustrmap, Falcons girls! The fantastic work you're doing online and on our pupil wiki - http://fsg.wikispaces.com - is being viewed across the planet!

This is only the beginning - we're in the process of making digital videos and new podcasts, and you'll soon be working on 'flatclassroom' projects.

Oh, and Miss Spurling has some pretty exciting news for you... (clue: I'm using 'it' to create this post...)

Year 5 Homework: Fiction prep.

1. To prepare for our lesson tomorrow, please read this and the Alex Rider passage I've given you. Pay special attention to page 30 and 31. If you're feeling clever, try annotating pages 30 and 31 for the following action techniques:

Powerful Verbs
Impact Sentences
Dashes
Showing how much it hurts!
Having your characters cry out!

2. Visit your wiki page, and complete the checking work we began in class.

Year Five Fiction - Suspense

L.O. To revise suspense techniques

Log onto your wiki page and write the following scene of suspense:

You are a spy. You are at home in bed, asleep, dreaming about catching the sadistic bad guy you designed last week. Suddenly, you begin to feel you are not alone... Has your bad guy come himself? Or has he sent some of his goons?

Aim to write 10-12 lines - and make sure that you include all our suspense skills. Revise our suspense techniques by clicking here.

(Note: please write under a new heading on your wiki page, i.e. Suspense Scene)


Next week we'll be studying action scenes. Prepare for this work by clicking here.

And just for fun (keep watching until the end!):