What makes a home?

This half term our topic is Families and neighbours. We have created our own family treees and auto biographies. Today we discussed 'What makes a home?'. We listed the physical materials that were used to build our homes. Then we listed as many different types of homes as we could including caravans, lighthouses and teepees! We realised they can be built of very different materials and come with many or few facilities.
This is what we thought every home needs though......

This reminded us of the  UNCRC article 27 Children have i right to 'a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and mental needs'
Today, however, is 'Children In Need' day when we think about children who are not enjoying their home life. We raise money to support families through difficult times.

 Happy to help!

Patterns on the page.

 In our literacy lessons we have been exploring poetry. We have found out that poetry involves patterns of sound, shape or lay out.  We have looked at poems and discussed how they work and what makes them successful. We have taken poems and changed them or added to them to make them our own. The first is a rhyming poem that we added our own verses to.......... 

  

What are little children .........?

I am not a sugar and spice child 

An all things nice child.

A do as you’re told

Good as gold child.

I ‘m a climbing trees,

Dirty knees, child.

A super writer,

Read at nighter. Child.

A quick to trick and love to kick 

A football child.

I ‘m a usually mild,

Sometimes wild, child!

A really sporty,

Sometimes naughty, child!

I am a love to play

Too much to say

Child!

By Polar Bear Base.

Our next poem is adapted from Cats Can by Coral Rumble. It works because certain words have been given special shapes. Our version is all about Polar Bears!