Summer 1 - Team DB

In Writing this half term, Team DB have focussed on using their text driver Amazing Evolution to write a non-chronological report. The children enjoyed exploring the Amazon Rainforest, as well as creating their own hybrid animals from the depths of Amazonia. The children read various non-fiction texts to support them with their writing. The class have worked hard on their SPaG this half term, implementing modal verbs, expanded noun phrases, as well as trying to show cohesion between sentences and paragraphs. Throughout their writing, the children have tried to incorporate the SPaG that would allow their writing to flow. Following this task, the children spent quality time focussing on blackout poetry. They analysed specific pieces, engaging with various texts as well as learning about the specifics of this type of poetry. The children participated in a shared model using an extract from the BFG, before analysing an extract from The Hobbit, where the focus was upon Smaug the Dragon. The aim of the poem itself was to choose words or short phrases that would create a whole new poem that was nothing to do with the original text. The children were amazed at how poetic their pieces were, especially when they designed their artwork based on their poem.