The children have spent this morning completing their Borrower houses and I must say, I am very impressed with their creativity! All the children have thought carefully about what the Borrowers will need in their house and have come up with some wonderful ideas of how to make things like beds, tables chairs etc. Some houses have even gone the extra mile with things like an outdoor gym, a hammock, a swing! It’s been lovely to see the children working well together and enjoying themselves. They will move on tomorrow to creating a persuasive advertisement for their house to try to persuade the Borrowers to come and live in it.

Following on from yesterdays lesson, the children have begun building their houses for the Borrowers. They had to follow their criteria from yesterday and were encouraged to hit a speaking and listening objective of taking turns to speak, contributing and discussing ideas and listening to the ideas of others.All the groups did this really well and I saw some fantastic team work going on. Other skills were coming in to our lesson with the children measuring the height of their houses to make sure the Borrowers would fit in it and D&T skills to assemble it. The children have been very creative with their houses and some have even built the Borrowers a zip line to have fun on! We will continue with our building tomorrow and then the children will start to think of how they can persuade the Borrowers to choose their house to live in.

We have started to read a new class book today – The Borrowers. The children have enjoyed learning what Borrowers are and have enjoyed listening to a story about them. During our lesson a letter fell down from behind a display…..a letter from Arietty, one of the Borrowers (you can read the letter below). The children have been set the task of helping the Borrowers by building them a house outside. We have planned our houses today and spent some time gathering materials from the wildlife area at school. Tomorrow we will begin building!