BOYS Sentences

Using Alan Peat's exciting sentences we are trying to improve our writing.  We have been learning about BOYS sentences.  These are sentences where you include the words:

But

Or

Yet

So

These help us to add detail to our writing and allow us to include complex sentences!

Check out the sentences we have written and comment below the post. Can you spot the BOYS words?

 Christina's sentence

 Faye's sentence

 Kenna's sentence

 Layton's sentence

Mia's sentence

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Below is a screen capture of all the countries from around the world that have visited us.  Isn't this amazing!

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Thank you all so much once again. 

Action Sentences

We have been looking at writing short action sentences for the exciting parts of our stories.  Some pictures of our writing are below but these are the sentences we wrote together after watching the trailer for Jack the Giant Slayer.  

Jack swung across the ceiling.  His face turned red.  His clothes were full of giant's blood. 

Jack tried to chop off the two headed giant's head with his axe.  The giant smacked Jack to the side.  Jack screamed. 

Jack spotted an axe.  He bounced off the gigantic couch.  He tried to chop the giant's head off.  "Argh!" the giant screamed.  

Jack leapt.  He injured the ferocious giant.  The giant collapsed.  


Jack pounced off the table with an axe.  He landed on the giant.  Jack cut the giant's head off.  

The giant stomped across the woods.  The sheep scattered.  One scared sheep didn't get away.  

Traditional Tale Characters

In English we are looking at traditional tales.  Emilia read some of her Polish tales to us and we recognised lots of them!

We have been learning about new types of sentences that can help us improve our writing.  Today we learnt about Alan Peat 2 adj sentences and we have written about some of the common characters in traditional tales.  What do you think?

Slowly, the witch offered a juicy, poisonous apple with her ugly, warty hand while she picked her crooked, spotty nose.

His enormous, strong muscles bulged as he swung his ferocious, green claws. 

While he was eating Granny, his slobbering, dribbling mouth showed his teeth as sharp as swords. 

He picked his filthy, snotty nose with his enormous, dangerous club before he wiped it on his disgusting, hairy loin cloth.  
 

The giant caught the bouncy, golden ball with his hands which were as big as tree tops. 

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Awesome Alphabet Alliteration Poem

A few weeks ago we looked at alphabetical order and we made a class poem.  This was when Mrs. Akhtar was with us and she helped us to write an alphabet poem.

A is for an astronaut who goes into space in a rocket ship.

B is for Batman who is a super hero.

C is for a tiny cat who runs around the house.

D is for dinosaurs who eat meat.

E is for Easter eggs which we decorate with colourful sprinkles.

F is for a sly fox who hides in the woods.

G is for George Lucas who made Star Wars.

H is for a haunted house full of bats.

I is for a cold igloo in the North Pole.

J is for yummy jam full of strawberries.

K is for kids jumping for fun.

L is for lollies made with Coca Cola.

M is for magnets sticking to metals.

N is for Next the shop.

O is for a spotty octopus which has eight tentacles.

P is for a pie that will make your tummy very happy.

Q is for the beautiful queen who waves from her royal palace.

R is for a soft, white rabbit nibbling on a crunchy carrot.

S is for a snake that hisses and bites.

T is for a slow turtle who didn’t make it to the beach.

U is for a unicorn flying through the air and landing on a pear.

V is for a violet van driving on the road.

W is for waterfall that zooms down the mountain.

X is for x-rays flashing on your body to show your skeleton.

Y is for a yellow sun shining bright in the sky.

Z is for a zebra with black and white stripes like a zebra crossing.

Great Fire of London

Photo taken by Eden

We are learning about the Great Fire of London.  It started in 1666 which is a really long time ago.  Nearly 400 years ago.  That is even before TV was invented! 


There was no fire brigade so they used hooks, squirters and buckets to put out the fire.  They also used gunpowder to blow up houses so the fire couldn’t spread.  It lasted about four days. 


The people used trolleys to take out special things to them and expensive foods like cheese and wine.  They buried them to save them.  Samuel Pepys wrote a dairy about what happened and that is one way we know about the Great Fire of London. 


The fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane shortly after midnight.  The people hurried to the River Thames to escape from the fire. 


We found all this information at http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/game/.