Tuesday by David Weisner

Date: 21st Sep 2015 @ 4:35pm

In English we have been using the picture book Tuesday by David Weisner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQ4DdzCZMA

The children have looked carefully at the pictures and talked about what is happening at different points in the story. We have focused on certain pages and tried to write exciting sentences by including adjectives (slimy, cheeky, mischevous) and adverbs (wildly, calmly, loudly).  The children have worked hard on this and are beginning to  notice when they use adverbs in their oral language. Why not sneak some in at home and see if they can spot them ... ?

The children then pretended to be news reporters and report on the incident of flying frogs! But hold on ...

On Monday around 9.15am the children were shocked to find the classrooms had been tampered with! But by what ... who knows? The children became the detectives and had to hunt for clues, they decided the frogs from the story MUST have been in our classroom. So make sure tonight you lock all your doors and windows because mischevious, slimy blobs are on the loose!

I think our news reporters may be busy once again.

When the children were working as detectives they focussed on starting their questions with a question word ... Who / What / When / Why / How / Did / Do / Where ... and they finished their questions with a ?

Stay tuned for more froggy mayhem!