For the final part of our work on instructions I would now like you to plan and write your own set of instructions.
You can write instructions for anything you would like to teach us how to do. It could be how to play a certain game, how to bake something else, how to build a den, how to catch a fish anything you are really good at.
Please use the flowchart sheet or a piece of paper to plan your work today. Think about the things people would need, and the order in which they need to do everything. Think about any safety tips or special words you might need to use.
Today I would like you to finish your instructions for your baking.
When you have finished writing the steps. Could you think of a little ending to finish it off or maybe a top tip for your reader?
I would then like you to read through your work carefully from start to finish, look at the checklist and tick off all of the things you have included. If you have missed any features could you go back and add them in – like we would do with our purple editing pens.
You may have heard reports in the news that households of school age children and staff who work on school settings are now eligible for rapid lateral flow test kits to enable them to perform tests at home. Primary aged children are not required to be tested at this point, this is just for the adults in the household.
Test kits need to be collected from a special collection point in London Road, Shrewsbury. They can also be ordered online if you are unable to drive. The school have not been provided with test kits for distribution to parents.
Please see this Government post below for the latest information:
Please find some time to read your book and practise your spellings. You may also like to look at the post from yesterday and look at the videos on the Bournville BookFest. We enjoyed watching the Michael Rosen poetry video from yesterday and learning how to draw Dobbie the house elf!
Today I need you to remember what you made yesterday and begin to write your instructions. You will do half today and half tomorrow.
Can you remember what you need to include in a set of instructions that you might not see in other pieces of writing?
Try to tell an adult what you can remember or jot down a list on some paper. Now check this list and see if you remembered all of the features.
So today you need to do your title, introduction, list of ingredients and any equipment. You can also do step 1 maybe so you don’t have too much to do tomorrow.
This week we will be joining in with the World Book Day celebrations on Thursday. There are a few activities going on throughout this week that you may want to access and join in with from home.
Our first is our Virtual Book Fair that we launched last week. You can find a range of titles for each year group and you are also able to email Louise to request any particular books that are not listed as she may be able to supply them too. Each sale will help to provide free books to school and also helps to support local independent bookshops. There is also a section called ‘Donate a book to school’ where each class teacher has put together a wishlist for their classroom should anyone wish to donate a book.
The second thing we would like to challenge everyone to take part in is a book hunt. Throughout this week we would like you to choose one of your favourite books and make some sort of picture or model to represent that book. It could be a picture of something from the book, a model you have made from Lego or recycled materials, one of your teddies dressed at a character, however creative you’d like to be. When you have made your picture or model we would like you to display them in your window on Thursday so if any children from our school community are out for a walk they can look out for and spot as many book pictures as they can. (If you struggle to make something you could just put your favourite book in your window for others to spot.) We’d love to see a photo of whatever you create and do let us know how many book windows you spot!
Bournville BookFest for Schools has some wonderful activities taking place all week. Here’s author and illustrator Nick Sharrat to explain more.
Check out this link to see the programme for the week, a new video will be added each day at 9am. Year 3 – Look out for Steven Butler and Seven Lenton on Wednesday the author and illustrator of The Nothing to See Here Hotel – one of our favourites so far this year. You will also see videos from Michael Rosen and Benjamin Zephaniah, Katherine Rundell, Tom Palmer and the Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell.
Take a look inside the World Book Day books here All children will receive their World Book Day token on Monday 8th March.
You may also like to visit the virtual libraries below. These are wonderful resources created by @eenalol on twitter and author of ‘A little but a lot blog’ alittlebutalot.com. Each contain links to you tube videos of the authors reading either their full books or a chapter or two to entice you. If you find a book you like the sound of it may be in our book fair.
