How to catch a star.

In this story by Oliver Jeffers the boy tries but fails to catch a star, so we have written an explanation to help him to success. We made sure our explanation used time and causal connectives.

Passover

This half term in RE we have been learning all about Passover and how important the festival is to Jewish people.
Today we looked at the Seder plate. We know what each piece represents and we made the Charoset.  This is apples, walnuts, cinnamon, ginger and grape juice.  It represents the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves to build.  Everyone definitely had different views on the taste!

Adding details

We painted our portraits last week and have now added details with crayon, oil pastel and pencil.

Self portraits.

After looking at ourselves carefully in a mirror and drawing small details, we then went on to draw our self portraits.

Poems

We used The Magic Box by Kit Wright as inspiration and composed our own poems.

Artists at work.

We did lots of quick sketches of each other in different poses. We first worked on white boards that we rubbed out as they were only rough sketches. It was important to look at shapes and positions of arms and legs or whether different areas of the body were hidden or visible. 

Two poems.

We have read a poem called The Magic Box by Kit Wright. 

We used it to inspire our own poems. We worked in two groups and shared ideas for our finished poems.