This will be Class 3's first week of Big Talk Homework. Big Talk aims to develop young children's ability to become confident and articulate communicators. Through good quality talk children will be able to extend their sentences, make choices for the vocabulary they use and restructure sentences, which in turn produces a higher level of writing. Big Talk also provides an opportunity for the children to talk about research they have done and what they have found out, their ideas on a given topic and much more with all family members.Monday 31st January
The children's Talk Homework is to find out about one feature of a castle (it does not have to be Caerphilly Castle)
This week we will start learning about Caerphilly Castle. We will be looking at images of the castle since it was built and sequencing them on a time line, we will also be looking at plans of the castle to identify it's features.On Friday, the children will have to talk about their chosen feature they have researched and write a caption for an image of that feature. When researching and talking about the feature you may want to consider the following questions:
What was it used for?
Who would have used it?
Why was it constructed in that way? E.g. Why were the towers tall? Why were the arrow slits narrow? Etc.
The children may wish to note their findings down in the form of a spider diagram that contains words, pictures, or short phrases if they feel it will help them talk about their chosen feature on Friday.
Good luck and have fun!
Remember, all you have to do is TALK!
