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AUTHOR'S CHAIR

Each day, at the end of WRITING BLOCK, we have 'AUTHOR'S CHAIR'.

After working hard on our writing, we can choose to SHARE what we have written.

We also THINK about the

'clever things' we did as writers and share them too.

Maybe it's about where we found a word we needed, how we wrote the sounds we could hear when spelling words or how we had used finger spaces, fullstops or even exclamation marks!

So many of us want to be in the 'AUTHOR'S CHAIR' each day.

We think we need a SIGN-UP SHEET for it too!

DOING WORD WALL - WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

We do WORD WALL every day in LITERACY BLOCK.

At the beginning of the year, we thought Mrs M was CRAZY as she

showed us how to learn our words by cheering, chanting and actions.
Now we are CRAZY as well. Doing WORD WALL is so much FUN!
Here's what we do.

First we TALK about a word-what are the TRICKY parts. We've learnt that we don't always SEE what we HEAR.... like in the word 'my'- we hear 'i' but we see a 'y'. We call a 'y' like this a GREAT PRETENDER'.

We have to use our BRAIN to remember!
Next we SPELL the word using one of our WORD WALL CHEERS.

Here we are doing 'OPERA'. We sing each letter like opera singers!
Some of our favourites are 'MOVIE STAR KISSES' and 'CHEERLEADER'.

Our BRAIN loves singing and actions!

Last we WRITE the word 3 times, each time using a different colour so we make a RAINBOW WORD. Our BRAIN loves colour!

Then we draw the shape around the word to help our BRAIN remember what the word looks like.

We need this for words like 'my' because what we hear is 'mi'. Can you see why the shape is important?

Then we do it ALL OVER AGAIN for each word!

WATCH OUT FOR OUR POSTS EXPLAINING SOME OF OUR FAVOURITE WORD WALL CHEERS!

BE CREATIVE, 1M. CAN YOU THINK OF SOME NEW CHEERS WE COULD DO?

LEAVE YOUR IDEAS IN A COMMENT.

MRS M :>)

SPOTLIGHT WORK - THE LAST FOR THE WEEK!

Look how clever we are getting!

Our sentences are getting longer and more interesting.


We are now using the word 'and' to join ideas.

Instead of 'the' or 'a' we are using words like 'my'. It changes the whole meaning of the sentence.

We worked hard at learning this week's words. Some of us could even jumble up the letters, then glue them down in the right order!

We were 'Super Story Sequencers' too! This 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' activity also helped us start to learn the words for the days of the week.



1M, your work this week has been MAGIC!

You are WIZARDS at WORKING WITH WORDS!!
Click on the wizard to hear a story about WORDS!

SPOTLIGHT TIME!!

Today it was yellow group's turn to make sentences with the 'word wall' cards.
These are the 'spotlight' sentences!


Courtney told us about 3 things she could see. Hers was the l o n g e s t sentence yet!

Laura used the word

'little'

to tell us what type of horse.

Purple group worked on 'spelling' some of this week's words.

Mrs M said our Working With Words was...

TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT

Here are today's
'Spotlight
Sentences'.

We took up the challenge to make
l o n g e r sentences!

We are getting very clever at using our Word Wall Words!

Have you got a sentence in mind for tomorrow,1M?

WORKING WITH WORDS

Today the spotlight was on two new activities to help us learn our Word Wall Words.

Instead of using playdoh or magnetic letters to make our words, we used 'letter' body segments to make 'caterpillar' word wall words.

Another new activity was 'Sentence Maker'.

We used 'word wall word' cards to construct sentences.
We even used some of this week's new words!


Look at all the words we've learnt so far. Which ones can you use in a sentence? Can you make a longer sentence?

Maybe your sentence will be in the 'spotlight' next!