Poggy Frog and the cows

Mel and I have tried to focus on speech marks this week. We had, what we thought was a 'wow' introduction to using speech marks, but things never work out as we would like them too! We blew up a balloon each and in it was a piece of text which was used in the story 'Poggy Frog and the cows'. We blew the balloon until it burst and used two pieces from the burst balloon to illustrate speech marks at the beginning and end of what is being said! The children responded enthusiastically and Mel and I were thrilled..... we thought we had won the jackpot. But it was not to be....... few children really understood and we realized we had lots of work cut out for us! But with practice they will improve.

Here are some of the work that they did.... they traced the frog , wrote a sentence that Poggy said and then used gum paper to place the speech marks...

Geetali

Siya

Shriya

Connor

Amal

Shaked