Larkspur Community Primary School
Growing Towards Tomorrow
English
The Whale - by Ethan & Vita Murrow
In Year 4 we have been reading the book 'The Whale' where the story is told through amazing illustrations.
Fiction:
We have used the books breath taking illustrations to inspire our writing of a narrative text describing a setting.
Non- Fiction:
Following from our setting descriptions we imagined ourselves as reporters reporting on the exciting story of a rare marine creature being sighted off our local coast.
BREAKING NEWS!! Whilst in the middle of this writing the fictional inspiration of our newspaper reports became reality:
We have been reading the story The Firework-Maker's Daughter in class.
About the story...
Lila knows what she wants: she doesn’t just want to be a Firework-Maker’s Daughter; she dreams of being a Firework-Maker herself! To discover the final firework-making secret, Lila must bravely head off alone on a journey – a journey filled with dangers beyond anything she could have imagined...
As a fun way to learn our text, we used our ‘mobile phones’ to role play as Lila and Chulak two of the important characters in the story. We took turns being Lila describing Razvani, the fire fiend, to our friend.
