Writing -

Writing

The children self select a goal to focus on as a "next step"
These goals are discussed and displayed this provides a visual reminder for the children.
The children buddy check their goal and highlight where they have done their goal i.e. the evidence
This term the Proof reading part of the writing process has been introduced and the children are developing independence with doing this with a buddy.
We proof read a piece of writing together and made corrections with a red pen and then displayed this as a prompt and example of what to do. The children often refer to this. They enjoy using a red pen to proof read and make corrections

This Week we are working on Excellence- This is the E part of the Eskdale school values
CARE. This value was selected after discussion with the children and they voted for Excellence as the value that best fitted with persevering and working hard.




Providing the children with multiple experiences to build up their ideas and vocabulary ver a period of time before writing is proving successful. After reading the story about Manukura the white kiwi the children became interested in Kiwi so I went with their interest. Over a period of 4 weeks we have read a lot of Kiwi books, collected Kiwi facts - Written kiwi facts and painted Kiwi.

This week we have been pretending to be a Kiwi out on a typical night's foraging.
The children role played this using their knowledge and imagination. This gave me great insight into their learning. We brainstormed interesting words with a focus on verbs and adjectives.
When the children came to write they were very motivated and focused.

Highlighted Evidence of personal goal


Next steps to get the children tracking the achievement of their goal using the adapted LLps for Junios