Thank you letters

Look!! Proper joined up writing!! Correctly formed!! Still got a bit of work to do getting it all on the level, but I am so proud of him!

Fantastic writing session today!

Gosh, Small Boy has done well today!

1. cursive handwriting - il, it, lt, ul, ut
2. spellings practise for school - half, your, would, here, there
3. Recount - opening sentence (when, where, why, who, how)

Small Boy wrote:
Last night I went to the Opera house to see Horable histreas with my mummy and daddy.

4. Discussed time connectives. Small Boy had 10 minutes independent writing then to continue with the recount. He wrote:

First I sore the Romern armey singing a song, next a wumern apeared and seid "you carnt bild a road threw my farms. its bendey." and the Romern armey seid "aaaaaa!" because they are frirtnd of the werd bend.

5. Up levelling work.

We up levelled each sentence, by adding adjectives and adverbs, and using other words instead of said.

It ended up as: (now correct spellings as I wrote each sentence out and he added adjective and adverbs in the spaces!)

Last night I went to the Opera House to see Horrible Histories with my mummy and daddy. First I saw the fierce Roman army singing a song loudly. Next a disgraceful woman appeared quickly and shouted, "You can't build a road through my farm. It's bendy." The Roman army screamed "aaaaaaaa!" because they were frightened of the word bendy.

A very rewarding session, and Small Boy was incredibly proud of his work today!

Just spent a pleasant 45 minutes watching these videos online and completing the adverbs quiz (all three levels) so Small Boy now knows all about adverbs, adjectives and connectives! I wonder what effect it will have on his writing later?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/video/adverbs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/quiz/en26adve-l1-quiz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8NPZfIrdcg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1dXaDy5Mpg&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajmg5--J0nI&feature=relmfu

weekend plans

1. cursive handwriting - lt, il, ut,
2. recap recount writing - who, when, where, why, how, time connectives.
3. uplevelling work - higher level connectives, adjectives, adverbs - what is small boy's knowledge of these?
4. write a recount of theatre visit
5. select sentence to uplevel

Year 2 update

Year Two is rather varied.

Small Boy has read all of Spud Goes Green (Giles Thaxton) and most of Dinosaur Pox (Jeremy Strong). He loved Spud Goes Green, Dinosaur Pox is rather hard and needs to be read out loud.

Work seems to be going ok at school, he is still happy to tell me what he's been doing.

Behaviour is not great - this seems to be the biggest problem. On the other hand, he's saving it for school and has been lovely for home (in a "so they can deal with it" mood tonight!).

Trying very hard to improve his diet (again) but it's still pretty rubbish :(

Sunday Workday

Must do:
1. get Small Boy to read
2. Supervise horn practise
3. Update literacy planning
4. Do maths planning
5. Bake flapjack
6. Put beef in slow cooker
8. Clean out car
9. Handwriting - Small Boy

Sunday

Dennis is helping to change the bed

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