The Black Hat - Maia Walczak

This week sees the last week we will spend looking at the author Maia Walczak and we are looking at her story 'The Black Hat. We are doing some drama to act out the story using our black hats in school. We are also having a debate about whether animals should be kept in cages like the boy does in the story.

We even have a pretend cage set up in our classroom so we can imagine what it might feel like...!

 

Here is the story 

 

The Black Hat from Natalie Blass on Vimeo.

Maths - Guess The Number

Give yourself a little maths challenge with this game.... depending on how much you want to challenge yourself depends on how high you want to risk the number being!

 

Click on the picture below to get to the game...

The Girl With The Yellow Bag - Maia Walczak

The week before half term, in literacy, we had been comparing another story of Maia Walczak, 'The Girl With the Yellow Bag' to her other stories that we have looked at. We were thinking about adjectives to describe. We had our own yellow bags and were describing what was inside them and then using our imagination to think about what each object could turn into, like it does it the story.

Here are some photos of us and also the video at the bottom of the story.

 

 

Literacy - Silent Blue Book

This week in literacy we are looking at the story of the 'Silent Blue Book' by Maia Walczak. We are adding our own text to the story and adding speech between the characters. Part of the challenge is we have to think of different words to replace 'said', for example groaned, whispered, bellowed. What other synonyms for said can you think of?

Here is the story..

Moving Trailers in D.T

We have been making moving trailers in D.T as part of our pirate topic. We had to work out ourselves how to fix all the parts together and how to make sure the wheels didn't fall off. We are going to test them to see if they will pull our pirates treasure!!