Team Palmer's Writing Blog
Thursday 19 November 2015
Anti-bullying songs
It's Anti-bullying Week! We took inspiration from BGT's Bars & Melody and wrote songs to #Make A Noise about bullying and what we should do about it.
Wednesday 5 August 2015
New Class Challenge
Welcome to Team Palmer! Here's your first challenge:
Use adjectives and your senses to write an interesting sentence about this picture. Can you use a simile too?
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Alternative Anthem
We wrote our own verses for John Agard's poem, Alternative Anthem. The world's problems can be solved with a cup of tea!
Alternative Anthem
Put the kettle on
Put the kettle on
It is the British answer
to Armageddon
Never mind taxes rise
Never mind trains are late
One thing you can be sure of
and that’s the kettle, mate.
It’s not whether you lose
It’s not whether you win
It’s whether or not
you’ve plugged the kettle in.
May the kettle ever hiss
May the kettle ever steam
It is the engine
that drives our nation’s dream.
Long live the kettle
that rules over us
May it be limescale free
and may it never rust.
Sing it on the beaches
Sing it from the housetops
The sun may set on empire
but the kettle never stops.
John Agard
Thursday 21 May 2015
Non-chronological Reports
Y5 worked collaboratively in groups to write non-chronological reports on different animals. Have the children...
- used formal language?
- written in the third person?
- written in the present tense?
- used sub-headings?
- stuck to the facts?
Sunday 17 May 2015
Half Term Homework
Tearful, Agatha stumbled into the empty attic library. The floorboards creaked as she waltzed alone, dancing out of the shadows into the sunlight. Abruptly, she paused. There by the dark fireplace lay a dusty old book. Picking it up, she blew the dust off and saw the title. Gasping, she dropped it!
Either finish this story or write your own
based on the two photographs.
Friday 1 May 2015
At Sea
Y5 have studied a range of poetry this week including a piece called At Sea. Each line of this poem contains an adjective, a noun and a verb and describes a stormy day on the coast. We used the same format to write our own poems about the sea and other places we could describe lots about. Have we created a vivid image in your head?
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