Proverb Stories and Guessing Games

A group of year 6 children at Parkhill Junior school are continuing the story telling project from last year and have been writing stories based on proverbs.

They used the Internet to research proverbs and then chose one of the sayings that they felt could be made into an appropriate story for Key Stage 1 children. The focus of this Literacy project is to write a piece of work taking into account their audience.

Over the last few weeks the group have spent short sessions in the ICT Learning Centre where they have written, saved and redrafted their stories.

Today they had their first video conference link with Miss Munford's class at Scargill Infants.

Two children from the group read their stories and answered questions. They even got into character and dressed up in wigs and hats to read.

Miss Munford's class were a wonderful audience and they listened well and then asked some very interesting questions about the stories.

The stories read today were:-

Honesty is the best policy and All that glitters is not gold.

Click on the above titles to read the stories.

Miss Munford's class then invited the Parkhill children to play two guessing games. The children gave a short clue to a character from a traditional tale and asked the year 6 children to ask them further questions about this character.

These were the clues for the first character:-

She is a girl who lives with a parent. She has another relative who lives down the road.

The Parkhill children had to work hard to try and guess the character but after asking:-

Is the parent a mum or dad? (Answer: her Mum) and Who is the relative who lives down the road? (Answer: her Grandma) they finally cracked it when they asked; Does she wear a red cloak?

Did you guess it? Little Red Riding Hood.

The second character was much harder to guess as it was a creature from a traditional tale. But after lots of guesses the Parkhill children asked Who does it live with? (Answer: His brothers) and Does it have horns? (Answer: Yes)

Did you guess it? The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The children from Scargill then answered questions about how they thought up their ideas, wrote their clues and tested out their guessing games.

Everyone at Parkhill said what fun it was to take part in the video conference and we hope that we wil be able to read some more stories and guess some more clues in another link soon.

The children have posted some comments about this video conference link. Click on the comments link to read them

Sharing Work - Instructions and Collages

Today children from Miss Haskew's class at Scargill Infants shared two topics from their class work with Mrs Dorling's class at Parkhill Juniors.
In the first topic the children had been writing instructions and they read their work about how to go home after school and also their instructions for making a milkshake.

They had written detailed instructions in a logical order and they read these very confidently.

The Parkhill pupils were able to these questions about the work:-

What did you put first on your instructions?
Did you test your instructions to see if they worked?
How did you organise your writing?
What was difficult about writing the instructions?
Why did you choose the instructions?

The Scargill pupils gave very detailed answers to the questions and explained that they used a toolkit to help them with their work. The wrote the titles first and then had to remember to use bossy words when doing their writing. They tested out their instructions and had even made a milkshake in class.

For the second topic Miss Haskew's class then showed beautiful cut out paper caterpillars that had been decorated with coloured tissue paper.

The Parkhill children asked them:-

Why did you choose a caterpillar?
What did you use to make it?
How did you make it?
Was the caterpillar work fun?

The children explained that they had been reading the story of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and had used the pictures in the book to help them design their caterpillar, looking carefully at the colours in the book.

Everyone really enjoyed the session and in January the two classes will link again when Mrs Dorling's class will be able to show their work.

The children had lots of comments about the video conference and these can be read in the comments section below.