This week in RDT, we used our writing skills to answer our big question for this half-term, ‘How have I changed?’. Throughout this half-term, we have explored many different learning experiences which have helped us to reflect and think of our own answers to the question. We began the week by sharing the story, ‘Peepo!’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, as a starting point for our writing activity. We talked together about what the baby in the story was doing as we made links to our own knowledge and experiences of what babies do. We then reflected on what we have learned to do now that we are 4 and 5 years old. From this, we then planned the responses that we would write in answer to our big question by talking them through together.
We all had lots of fantastic ideas to share about how we have changed. We talked about how and where we eat now, where we sleep and the toys that we play with. Hooriya’s response to the question was, “When I was a baby, I had no hair and now I have hair. I could crawl but now I can walk. I can climb!”. Dayton said, “I couldn’t sit up or walk. Now I can walk, speed walk, jog, run and sprint!” We have certainly been utilising all of the skilful ways that we can now move as we practise our races for Sports Day!
We recorded our responses to the big question in our ACE Writer books. We worked really hard to write in full sentences, trying our best to remember a capital letter at the start, finger spaces and full stops where needed. Here are some of our reflections…
On Friday, we drew self-portraits to think about ourselves now as we further reflected on how we have changed. We focused on adding lots of detail to our drawings to make them more realistic. Look at our masterpieces!
This week, we potted our bean plants now that they are growing well. We have really enjoyed closely observing them in the plastic wallets and now we are excited to watch them as they continue to grow. Planting and growing our own bean plants has helped us to consider how other living things change over time as they grow.
