This week we have deepened our understanding of the warning story we are focusing on this term about two polar bear cubs. At the end of the week we have planned our own version of a warning tale, we have changed the animal and thus several other aspects of the story.

Over the last two weeks we have been reading the Rachel Bright book called: The way home for Wolf. We have identified valuable vocabulary in the story, read an extract and then the whole story. We answered retrieval questions about the text. We also compared it using venn diagrams to other Rachel Bright story books. At the end of the day we listened to the audio book version of the story.

To start our Talk for Writing units off this term we are learning about warning tales. This week we have made a text map, which the children have helped with ideas for, to help us learn the text. We have been busy learning the warning tale about Eddie and Minty two adventurous polar bear cubs who do not listen to their mother’s warning and end up in trouble. We have also been thinking of questions to ask Minty and Eddie to help us find out more about the text.