Hot Seating

This week in English, we started our new book, Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story. In the story, a boy goes to stay with his Granny Sylvie and they explore the woods together. Granny knows so much about the animals that live there, and the boy is fascinated by what she shows him!

We stepped into the boy’s shoes for some hot-seating. Taking turns in the hot seat, we answered questions as the boy and imagined what he might be most excited to tell his family. We then took those ideas into our writing, creating short, informal letters home in his voice. We chose words that brought the woods to life and tried out fronted adverbials like Early this morning, to help our readers picture when and where things happened. It was lovely to see how much of the boy’s excitement came through in our letters!