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Theseus and (the monster) books

Over the last two week, Y3 have innovated their Theseus and the Minotaur story that they imitated last half term. They worked hard to create their own mythical beast character in a build up and a resolution to the original story.
...We had Theseus and The Cyclops, Medusa, Chimera and Griffin.

When finished, they wrote 'blurbs' in no more than 30 words.  This was a challenge because it's never easy to summarise a whole story in such few words, but again, Welford children rose to the challenge and we had a range of fantastic, unique ideas that were all summaries of the story in very different ways.

Children then wrote VIPER questions on the story using question stems to share with Year 1 children.

Here are some photos to show how our books were created and then shared.
 

 
 
 
 

 
These show us working on our books last week
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
ooks were created.





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  1. Mrs Foster17 May 2019 at 01:45

    I am so pleased that you managed to find time in your squeezed schedule to produce such imaginative worked inspired by your topic. Well done.x

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