5LM's Stories on iBooks

As an experiment to see how it would work, during Be an Author Week, 5LM wrote their China stories on iPad devices in the Book Creator app. The aim was to publish these to the iTunes Store. Well, it worked and all the stories are available for download...

 

If you have an Apple device, download the story or stories you wish to read here. If you don't have an Apple device, the stories are also available online here. If you do read one, please let us know what you thought of it. 

Be an Author Week 2016

The week beginning 8th February 2016 was our annual Be an Author Week. In fact, the week had begun slightly early, because on the previous Friday, we enjoyed an entertaining visit from James Carter. In the build-up to Be an Author Week, the children had carried out, over two weeks, some research at home into China: its culture, people and place names as well as what role dragons take in Chinese stories. This research was vital in enabling the children to make a start on their stories. 

At the start of the week, the children planned out their story. The teachers read some Chinese stories to give the children some ideas of what to include in their work. We also had a useful Tai Chi session, learned some Chinese language, had a go at using the Chinese number system, saw some food and undertook some art. All of this was then used by the children in their story writing. By Friday of the week, we had stories from all the children that they can be rightly proud of. Depending on how the class undertook their work, these stories will now be available for the children to read either in their classrooms, online or both. Finally, the costumes worn on the Friday were fantastic and the year group looked very colourful.

100 WC Showcase Week 5

Matthew wrote a 100 Word Challenge entry that needed to be about the image below. His work was 'Showcased' on the 100 Word challenge website.
 

Below is a copy of his writing that was originally posted here.

 

Me-Maw Me-Maw! The fire fighters rushed down the streets of St. Neots towards the fire. A woman shouted in the building, they had to get there before it was to late... She screamed "There are children in here, help help". The fire brigade wasted no time. They sprang into action, lifting children away one by one. Every minute the fire grew ever closer, surrounding the screaming family. The brigade unleashed their secret, they had wings. They flew up to the family lifting the frightened couple to safety. The fire gulped the remainder of the building and collapsed. "thank you for saving us,"cried the woman.