We started our new writing unit this week learning a short story called ‘The Box’. It centres around a character called Aaliyah who discovers a mysterious, glowing box. As her curiosity takes over, she returns to find the box and take it home with dire consequences…

We explore different writing skills used to create this story and used drama techniques to think about how Aaliyah is feeling and different points in the story. We inferred information from the sentences to help us understand her as a character and predict what she might be thinking.

In our first set lesson we learnt a new technique of blending with pastels to mix different colours gradually. In the coming weeks we will be using this technique to create more complex images and landscapes.

I have really enjoyed welcoming 3VL back to school and getting to know them a bit better. We have settled in to our new routines and started off our learning with a book called Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris.

In our art lesson we looked at dragons and their various body parts then designed our own dragons.

We then used our dragons to create sentence with adjectives to describe them.