In Year One on a Friday morning, some of us join in Big Talk. This is a lovely quiet and calming time when Mrs Gillender and Mrs Birkett light candels and play music. We talk about a topic that we have been learning about in Literacy or within school or in other subjects.
Last week we talked about visiting space as we have been reading the story Whatever Next! It was fun thinking of exciting wow words to describe space! We saw yellow dazzling shooting stars. My super charged turbo rocket blasted me into space whoooooosh!
In Big Writing on a Friday morning, we play VCOP games. We have a VCOP song and the games are fun, fast, lively and exciting. We learn how to use wow words (vocabulary), connectives, openers and punctuation in our writing to make it more interesting. Sometimes our little friends Betty and Mikey visit us to join in the games, but they are our imaginary friends, such good fun!
During Big Writing Miss Coatsworth and Miss Denholm also light candels and play Mozart music to create a relaxing atmosphere. We have special writing paper and green pencils to make Big Writing a fantastic time. Last week we wrote a letter to our mums from space. We had also been reading Whatever Next and took on the role of the Bear.
We look forward to Big Writing every week.