We worked with Year 3 on the iPads.  We looked at pictures on wintery landscapes and added amazing vocabulary to the pictures by tapping the screen and recording our voices as sound buttons.

We first thought about what we could see, then what we could hear and finally, what we could feel. Working together and collaborating was a great way of sharing good ideas and vocabulary.  We use a separate picture for each of these senses.

When it came time to write, we could keep the iPad on our table and press the buttons on the screen to remind us of those lovely ideas and phrases we had used.  As we had recorded a different sense on each screen, this helped us paragraph our work, making sure that each paragraph focussed upon one of those senses.

This really supported our youngest writers as they had a simple guide to follow.  Similarly, it challenged our more able writers as they were able to play with the order of the paragraphs and the effect this had on their writing.