100 Word challlenge 12.5.14

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Well done to Mia Cookes. You did it! Great work.

“Right class settle down please.” Miss Honey said

Suddenly everyone fell silent and Miss Honey started the History lesson. It was so boring some of the words sounded like a foreign language.

Ring! Ring! Ring!

“Right class off you go!”

Quietly, me and my friend walked out of the classroom onto the playground. Everyone looked like they were having fun, because they were all laughing, but I had a feeling in my bones that something was not right. My teacher is not foreign so how could she be speaking like that? It sprang to mind that she might have been teaching us a foreign language!

100 word challenge week commencing 5.5.14

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Well done to Daniel Taylor for his entry this week. The class had some fabulous ideas and this one had a great start. Can anyone add to this and use figurative language to describe the battle?

In a faraway land there was a giant bee. The bee was the same size as a human and terrorized everyone it came across making them leave and never return. Far away from the bee lived a fifteen year old boy and his name was Josh. He was strong and smart and always did what he thought was best.

Josh heard of the giant bee and decided to set out to defeat the monster.  After days of travelling he came across a man who decided to help Josh. When they arrived the bee was in front of them. The battle started!

100 Word challenge wc 28.4.14

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Well done to Alex Milner for this weeks challenge. Feedback with your comments and if you feel like continuing the story, then go ahead.

It was a cloudy and miserable morning when there was rain slashing onto the windows and thunder booming across the town of York. It had been a hard night for me to sleep. We were having a new cupboard delivered as the present one….. well it was a bit old and shabby.

The next day the shiny new cupboard arrived and it was in my bedroom! It looked very posh and when I opened the cupboard door there was a lovely, sunny beach with a comfy chair and an umbrella on top of it. It couldn’t possibly get any better. It was my one dream for life.

Writing competiton

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Well done everyone in class 8 who completed the homework ‘Dreams of Hope’ for the writing competition to such a high standard.In fact, there were so many super pieces of work it was very tricky to choose. But I felt that the chosen three just had the edge. Congratulations to Oliver, Lucy and Jennifer who did some amazing work.

These entries are now live on the lendmeyourliteracy site (although with a spelling error for our school!) so take a look by clicking on the link below and see what you think!

 

http://lendmeyourliteracy.com/dingwall-junior-school-dreams-hope-entries/#comment-15272

 

 

 

Narrative poem comprehension

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Class 8 have been working very hard on developing their comprehension skills recently and in particular, including lots of relevant detail in their written answers.
Today we read a rather spooky poem called ‘The Listeners’
Here are some examples of the kind of answers we are looking for.
‘In my opinion, the listeners are phantoms/ghosts and they are dead people who used to live in the house. Something tragic could’ve happened in the house to cause their death.'(Natasha)
‘The first line of the poem makes me feel curious of where the traveller is and also who he is talking to. Although its a bit creepy, when you read on to the next line, it tells you that it is night, which makes it more scary.’ (Jen)
‘I notice that the horse has started to move around and is eating grass. It tells me that it’s dark and eerie and he doesn’t really care.’ (Lucy)
Have a look at the poem. What do you think?!

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