Tag Archives: Writing

Letters to Santa

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Today our whole class wrote letters to Santa.

We learned how to write a letter, how to set a letter out properly, we asked Santa a few questions and we also mentioned a couple of presents we’d like to receive for Christmas. We were very busy on our laptops and desktop computers typing the good copies of our letters. We should receive a letter from Santa around December the 18th – fingers crossed!!

Here we are busily typing!

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What would you ask Santa for? How do you celebrate Christmas with your family?

6 Word Stories

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Last week we tried a different type of writing activity. We wrote 6 word stories. We had lots of different pictures spread out on the floor and needed to choose one that appealed to us for some reason. Then we looked carefully at all of the detail in the pictures and started to write 6 word stories. It’s not as easy as it sounds – we had to really make each word count. There are lots of adjectives in our stories to describe what we can see or think may help tell a story.

6 Word Stories on PhotoPeach

Tell us what you think of our stories.
Can you suggest some new 6 word stories for our pictures. We’d love to hear from you.

The Oldest Person I Know

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Our class read a picture book called Night Noises by Mem Fox.

In the story the main character, an old lady, is asleep in her chair, dreaming about her youth.
She wakes when visitors arrive to give her a  surprise 90th birthday.
We loved the words Mem Fox used when describing the main character:
 For example:
 ‘Her hair was as wispy as cobwebs in ceilings.’
‘Her bones were as creaky as floorboards at midnight.’
We think those are sentences that add impact to the writing.
The Oldest Person I Know on PhotoPeach

Then we thought about the oldest people we know and we wrote about them.

 

Who is the oldest person you know?
Tell us about them.