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