We used our research skills in History to help us create fact files about ancient Greece.

We used a range of writing features to help us show our learning.

We wrote letters to senior leaders of our school to ask them to help us make the school a more biodiverse environment which will help the living things in our school community.

To link with our whole clas text, we hve planned how to catch, how to care for our how to slay a mythical creature. 

We designed and described own mythical creature before planning and creating our own instructions texts

Poems

Everyone in the class had to chose a God or Goddess then we used our Chromebooks and our partners to help us explore words that described our God.

We planned our poems in our books using a poem called Greek God to help us.

After writing and checking our plan, we then wrote our final poems in our book or on a Google Doc - Erin

Some of use chose to add a picture that represented our God or Goddess - Selin

Performing

Actions - we thought of actions that matched key words from our poems

Tone of voice  and pausing for expression - we raised our voices to make them clear and we stressed certain words to make them stand out.

We wrote leaflets encouraging people to visit Greece.

We used the interet to research about Greece, the islands or the capital city of Athens.

We considered what would we want to include and used a range of features to present our work.

We were including rhetorical questions, expanded noun phrases and adverbs. - Selin

We have used paragraphs to help organise our work.   We used subheading to help with our structure and we have included on introduction to help the reader know what our work will be about. 

We need to use facts as this makes it more interesting and it means the reader learns more about volcanoes. 

We were including introductory paragraphs, detailed paragraphs in the main body, a concluding paragraph, quotes and facts.  We will be basing our work on facts but will be adding some bits to this to make more interesting and to fill in the bits we can't find out from our research. 

Our newspaper articles will have a headline which ill be catching and engage the reader.  Some of us tried to use alliteration for our headline. We have used paragraphs to help organise our work.   We also wrote our articles in columns, just like you would find in a real newspaper.

We included quotes to help us imagine what people may have felt and to help add more description to our work.   we also used them to help us pretend what people may have seen, these people would have been called eye witnesses.

Setting descriptions

We used the text to help us identify things that we could see in the pages.  We used these as ideas for our writing.  We used our senses to help us. 

We watched videos of volcanic eruptions to help us develop our vocabulary. 

Diary entries

These were diary entries about a citizen who was escaping from Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius was erupting.

We could write in our books or record on a Google Doc.  We had agency over writing one day at a time or one whole day.