This week the children started their new English book ‘The Polar Express’ by Chris Van Allsburg. To start the week the children focused on grammar.

About The Polar Express:

A young boy who has grown sceptical of Santa Claus is shocked to see a train stop outside his window on Christmas Eve, destined for the North Pole. When he accepts an invitation from the conductor to climb on board, he embarks on a white-knuckle ride to Santa’s headquarters, where he makes fast friends and learns an invaluable lesson about the true spirit of Christmas.

They looked at verb tenses, similes, metaphors and adjectives to describe: touch, taste, sound and size. Using all this we then created a ‘Christmas writing help sheet’ filled with useful: Christmas nouns, adjectives, phrase list, winter metaphors and similes. To end the week the children began to write their opening scene on Christmas morning.