{"id":4100,"date":"2015-11-25T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T08:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalschooltci.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:45:10","slug":"grade-2-and-the-small-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalschooltci.com\/grade-2-and-the-small-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 2 and the Small Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grade 2 and the Small Knight<\/h2>\r\n
\"Grade-2-and-the-Small-Knight-1-e1448465973420\"<\/div>\r\nThe focus this term has been to develop writing skills using the power of reading<\/strong> <\/span> as a teaching tool.\r\n\r\nThe power of reading is not a way to teach, just an approach. It focuses on high quality age specific children\u2019s literature and uses every aspect of the text to form the foundations of English lessons. This is not just sitting down and writing every lesson! It requires involvement through open discussions, role play, freeze framing, hot seating and much more.\r\n\r\nWe started our topic this term by looking at the front cover and simply discussing. We didn\u2019t read the book straight away as stopping point are used in other lessons.\r\n\r\nThey were also un-aware at the time how important a role the cake would play in our upcoming lessons!!!\r\n

Acting out!<\/h3>\r\nThis followed by reading the text and writing adjectives to describe various characters. This was all to help understand the characters feelings, characters behaviour and immerse the children within the book.\r\n
\"Grade-2-and-the-Small-Knight-4-e1448466103811\"Using lots of acting techniques and fun expressions!<\/div>\r\nOnce the initial stages of this approach have been done the children are able to recall, order, recite lines and even write alternative scenes.\r\n\r\nActing out the story followed and after such enjoyment reading the book all I really needed to do was sit back and take the pictures for the role play lesson.\r\n
\"Grade-2-and-the-Small-Knight-3-e1448466205681\"Getting into his role!<\/div>\r\nThe children were each given various scenes from the story to practice and whilst narrating the acting, expressions and ideas were all their own.\r\n
\"Grade-2-and-the-Small-Knight-2-e1448466251273\"Creep, creep, creep\u2026.<\/div>\r\nAfter many lessons of reading the story the time came to reveal we were going to be making a chocolate cake<\/span><\/strong>. The children were set a task before this could be done though!!!\r\n

Making a Chocolate Cake!<\/h3>\r\n
\"Grade-2-and-the-Small-Knight-5-e1448466375626\"Who knew making a cake needed so much planning!<\/div>\r\nThe children had to write the ingredients, think about how to actually make the cake and to write out the instructions. On the day they would all be responsible for how their group\u2019s cake turned out.\r\n
\"Grade-2-and-the-Small-Knight-6-e1448466342574\"working together to plan the cake<\/div>\r\nThe learning that took place prior to this was incredible. The children, (hopefully still) would be able to recall the main stages of making a chocolate cake.\r\n\n\n \n \n \n