Big Talk

Here is the picture to talk about this week.

What can you see happening?

Can you write a super sentence about what is going on and bring it to school on Friday?

Big Talk

This week Big Talk is going to be based on the learning this half term. To help you remember, look back at the weekly slideshows and photo of the week.

This is one of my favourite activities from this half term-

Alex and Mason making their own puddles to jump in

Tell your grown up what you've enjoyed the most this term.

Big Talk

Here is the new picture to talk about with your family.
I would like you to think of sentences which include some super wow words to describe what you can see.

source - Vincent Noot

I will give 5 cubes for all comments made about this blog post.

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Following our theme of faries and wizards, I thought this would make a super illustration to look at. 

Think about what you can see.

Who lives behind the door, could it be a fairy or wizard?

What do they look like?

Where is this place?

Have you ever seen a fairy?

Source - Josephine Vogel

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On Friday we are going to talk about "Quadblogging" and how we use it in class. Can you explain what Quadblogging is to your grown up? Here is some information to help if you can't remember.

Quadblogging is about 4 schools linking together through their blog. One school each week is the focus blog and the other three schools will read what has been shared and leave comments.
Quadblogging gives our class a real audience because a teacher and his/her class read what we post.
We visit the other blogs to find out what is happening and look to see what is the same and different in their class.
It's exciting to see what other children are learning in a different part of the world.

If you want to have a look at the blogs, they are at the top of the page on the right.

I have signed us up again and hope we will be in a quad with a school in Australia.
Can you remember where Australia is on this map of the world?

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Here is the illustration for this week. I have chosen another Vincent Noot piece of art. This one is an extra busy picture.
Your challenge is to think of a super sentence to go with it.

I will put 5 cubes in our tub for every sentence in the comment box.

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This week we will use another image from the illustrator Vincent Noot.

What is happening?

Can you find the boy with the horn?

What else can you see?

Vincent has very kindly given answers to some questions about his new book.

What inspired you as an illustrator?

As a child, I was much intrigued by search books. I spent hours looking for the right characters and objects on every page. But I discovered there weren’t that many different ones out there. Over the years, I developed a unique cartoon style that I was able to use for several companies and assignments. Together with my ideas and the concept of a search book, my wife (then girlfriend) and I came up with a search book and a fun family as the main characters.

What is “Find the Cutes - Playtime” all about?
Children are creative. They have a huge imagination. In society today, despite all the technology and opportunities, the greatest happiness is often found in the home. Children give families that extra enthusiastic energy. “Find the Cutes - Playtime” is based on that concept. It sparks the imagination, stimulates dialogue without words, educates, entertains, and inspires. 

When will it be available?
The book is completed, so we now have a kickstarter campaign from March 1st until March 31st. This is the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/92560380/find-the-cutes-playtime?ref=discovery. 

You can sponsor/back our project in those 30 days and get discounts that way. We are getting the website www.findthecutes.com ready for ordering, so we are in the process of getting the book printed and attaching a payment system to the website. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions at findthecutes@gmail.com or personally to my account at vincentnoot@gmail.com.

I look forward to asking Vincent more questions, but for now have a close look at the picture and see what you can find.

Big Talk

Here is the big talk photo for this week.

Artist - Jamie Smith

What can you see happening?

Where is this place?

Who are the characters?

What will happen next?

Can you give this illustration a title?

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What a wonderful week we are having finding out about Chinese New Year.
Here is the image for Big Talk on Friday. The illustration is by an artist called Vincent Noot, here is his website.

What can you see in the picture? 

Can you find the cat, dog and mobile phone?

What do you think is happening?

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This week Big Talk will be a bit different, it's going to be based on the story we have been reading.
We have been enjoying using cardboard boxes and our imagination to invent new buildings, vehicles, and other amazing things.

I would like you to watch this video below and talk about what you would do with a box.

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Here is the new Big Talk image created by the artist Aimee de Jongh.

Have a really close look at everything that is happening.

Your challenge this week is to think of three sentences about this picture.
Try and include lots of describing words in your sentences.

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Here is the new illustration to talk about. It comes from Smithsonian American Art Museum.
There's lots to see in the picture, if you could give it a title, what would you call it?


source - Smithsonian American Art Museum

 

Can think of two super sentences to share on Friday Big Talk Time?

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Here is the new image 

Source - Literacy Shed

Can you make a list of the things you can see?

Think of some sentences to describe what is happening.

(For every comment on the blog, I will put 2 cubes into our tub)

Big Talk

Here is the new image to talk about.

Source - J. Petra

Can you think of two sentences to describe what you can see?

Big Talk

As it is getting colder, I thought this illustration would be an interesting Big Talk homework

Source - http://www.legpuzzelstore.nl/

Talk about what you can see happening in the picture. 

Can you think of 2 sentences to describe what you can see?

Big Talk

This week we are going to talk about this story.

Read it at home and we will talk about it on Friday

Big Talk session

Thank you to the adults for spending time talking to the children about the photograph above.

Here are some of the responses from the class; (written as it was said)

Summer - The tree has fallen down onto the car

Olivia S-S - People might be in the car and stuck

Jared - Man with an axe would chop the tree and open car with key

Caylem - Tree smashed the gate, squashed the car and flattened

Robbie - Someone needs to push the tree off the car

Rhys G - Tree bent the gate

Tallulah - Storm might have crashed the tree down

Ellie Gr -Wind blown the tree down

Riley - There's tape round the tree

Ellie Grif - If people are in this side of the car, they can get out of the other side

Lewis - Gate is snapped

Matthew - Firemen might move the tree

Marshall - Move it with a fire engine using the crane

Joseph - They'll have to get a new gate

This has been the best Big Talk session so far, well done FS2.

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Here is this week's Big Talk photo

Source - http://www.alanpeat.com/

Talk about what you can see

How might it have happened?

What will happen next?

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Here is the Big Talk photo for this week

This week’s task is slightly different to last week.

You have to use your imagination and make suggestions of how this object could be used.

Could be for cutting something?

Could it be used to hang things from?

Does it belong to a giant?

Could a family of mice use it?

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Here is our Big Talk display in class.

Children are encouraged to independently write down what they can see.
I can spot lots of phonetically spelt words!

We had another fantastic session today, with lots of new vocabulary.
Thank you parents for your support.