Language+Arts

Here we are going to have pages related to language work.

We have been looking at how we can improve our typing skills using a super program on the BBC website called Dance Mat Typing. Have a go and remember to use all your fingers!!! [|BBC Typing Skills]

What do you think these two lovely twins are saying to eachother? We have made a little comic strip with our ideas - what do you think parents? :-) media type="youtube" key="_JmA2ClUvUY" height="294" width="459" align="left"

We are starting a new unit and with a new unit comes new language! Sound All Around will lead us gently into poetry. How does poetry convey meaning to us and how do we respond to those emotions? We will also be looking at onomatopoeia - "onomata what?" I can hear you say - onomatopoeia my dear! 

media type="youtube" key="r94AJzJZZaU" height="390" width="480" Watch the most famous Batman and Robin onomatopoeia.... Kerpow!!!!

media type="custom" key="8217772"When we write stories we need to have several things. We need a beginning, a middle and an end. We need characters and a setting. Look at some of the amazing photographs on this gadget and let your imagination run away with you!

media type="youtube" key="zLn_VYodqa4?fs=1" height="344" width="425"media type="youtube" key="qHoD9Uj4X0U" height="337" width="484" All you need to know about writing stories...and poems.........!!!

We are looking at ADJECTIVES in our language lessons and how they can add to our writing. Have fun with this game. [|Adjectives Game]

<span style="background-color: #93edf0; color: #0088ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 220%;">[|Super word games on this fun Poetry for Children web page]

<span style="background-color: #93edf0; color: #0088ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Just wait for the advertisement to disappear and there is a great selection of word game available.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">For a bit of old fashioned fun let's look at some <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Shakespearean <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> language!! media type="custom" key="8217728" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Do you know who Shakespeare was? His nickname was The Bard....