Writting in the style of Roald Dahl

To complete our study of the significant author Roald Dahl, we have planned and written our own stories in the style of Roald Dahl. We discussed Roald's style and decided on some writing tips. We decided that Dahl's books were popular because:

• they make you laugh
• they make you squirm
• they keep you enthralled
• they make you think
• they hook the reader
• they make you suspicious

We also noted the different ways in which Dahl started his stories - did he get straight into the action like in the BFG or did he introduce the characters like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

We also discussed how Dahl's stories were full of DAD - Description, action and dialogue.

We tried to use as many Dahl-like features in our stories as possible and we have done very well.

We also put into practise what we have been learning about punctuating dialogue and writing complex sentences. What a lot we had to think about!

Here are some extracts from our stories-

Humphrey wandered around until he heard a thumping sound. It was coming nearer and nearer every second, Humphrey was terrified. Now he could hear tiny voices getting louder and louder chanting, "hup, two, three, four'' repeating it again and again and again. Quickly he raced behind a tree but it was too late they, whoever ''they" were, had spotted him! like a bolt of lightning, he hid fully behind the tree then, gradually peered round just to find ...hamsters!

By Alanah

The evil twins put a slimy worm under the nice twins pillow but what was going to happen in the morning when the twins find out? "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Get it off! Get it off!" screamed Casey. "It's going in my hair"

"I have one too," yelled Kirsty. "Get it out, get it out! I smell the work of the Tweevils here!"

By Lucie

The giants are finished!

Well we have finished our giants and they look fantastic.


We carefully put the finishing touches to them trying all the time to keep them in Roald Dahl's wonderful style and making them as grotesque as possible - check out the warts, hairy armpits and noses and the dripping blood after chomping on a child!

Here they are:

More about the giants!!

The giants are coming along really well! They have been painted and sre drying ready to have the finishing touches applied!

Here are some more photos of work in progress:

Giants

This week we have been working on the BFG.We went into groups and made our own giants we used materials, paints and straw.We used ideas from the other giants in the BFG,at the end we cut our giants out.Most people used string, not white but coloured.



By Billy and Callum.L

Cool Stuff - urban style

Yesterday, we started to look at graffiti art. We watched a presentation about the history and the different styles of graffiti and then had a big discussion and brainstorming session about our views. As promised here are some graffiti websites to have a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti
A history of graffiti
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/
Work by graffiti artist Basquait

http://www.users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm


This is Julian Beever's pavement art


http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/201043994/in/set-72157594168613271


From this link you should be able to see other images as well!

RE

In RE we have been looking at Mother Teresa we looked at words like when I was hungry you gave me food. When I was in prison you visited me and lots more. These are all in the bible - Matthew 25 verses 31 - 40

We had to draw a picture of one. I did when I was in prison you visted me. I did a picture of a person in prison and another with a friend with him.

By Callum.S

Ridiculous Words!

"Every human bean is diddly and different. Some is scumdiddlyumptious and some is uckyslush," said the BFG.

The BFG sometimes gets his words (and his grammar!) mixed up. This is because he didn't go to school and therefore he didn't learn how to speak properly.

In Formula Base, we have created our own BFG words. Can you work out what they really are? Answers on a postcard please!(or you could just comment on this blog!)
Examples from the BFG are:
Cattypiddlers - caterpillars
Bellypopper - helicopter
disgusterous - disgusting

Now can you guess what our words really are?
Mishow
Woof-licker
Digraffe
Brillycanker
Piercing-fall
Airachains
Cherry-flying
Excidiumcious
Spishers
Fumblegumpr
Dominies
On friction

All our words are in our Dahl Dictionary in our classroom which you can see below.