Writing Week 5

This week we are going to be learning all about conjunctions; how they are used, why they are used and where they can be placed within sentences. Before we start joining our sentences together with these special joining words, we revisited how to write simple sentences.

Today we were learning to identify verbs (or verb phrases) and subjects within simple sentences.

We know that a simple sentence is made up of one verb and one subject. At first we found it tricky identifying the subject but we learnt that the subject is what the sentence is about so the subject is the 'thing' that is completing the action (verb). 

Here are some examples we came up with on the board, altogether:
(Note: we put a red box around the subject and an orange box around the verb/verb phrase) 

Miss Osborn has started to introduce writing prompts for free writing (there are some weird and funny photos on our writing wall, that we can use to help motivate us to write if we are stuck for ideas). The picture we used today was of a boy surrounded in a mysterious, brown sludge - some of us thought it was mud and some of us thought it was chocolate, it was a great debate! We got to choose what we thought it was when we went to our desks to write our own simple sentences.

Stay tuned for some snapshots of our out-of-this-world simple sentences.