Create a class display of radiant heart table top decrorations and at the same time practise the construction of simple , extended and sentences made up statements and opinions.... .
Share the picture above with the class.Discuss with the class how this has been constructed.
Children will need a sequence of different size hearts, preferably in different coloured card and card to cut into strips plus glue and scissors..
Each size of heart represents a different part of a sentence e.g. personal pronoun, verb, noun, conjunction, opinion phrase etcetra.
As class teacher you can decide how many hearts and how many different parts of a sentence you want the children to write.(This means that you can differentiate the activity table by table too in your class).
What type of sentences can our children construct? Well right from Y3 Spring term our children are beginning to practise expressing likes and dislikes in simple sentence ( e.g. verb phrase: "I like" plus nouns, such as animals).In Year6 children are practising in Spring 1 opinions about sports and reasons why they have such opinions of sports.
Model sentences for the children.
Make one child construction leader on each table.It will be his/her responsibility to oversee the construction of the table "radiant heart" table top decoration
Ask each child to construct his/her own radiant heart sentence.
Ask the table to then create the radiant heart with the sentence from each child on the table radiating out from the centre of the table top decoration.
