The Fish Who Could Wish

This afternoon we read a story called The Fish Who Could Wish. We are learning how to use talk partners effectively, so first we talked about ways to be a good talk partner.

We decided that you must:

• listen carefully when your partner is talking
• take turns to talk
• talk about what you've been asked to talk about
• only talk to your talk partner and no one else
• speak clearly so your partner can hear you
• face your partner when you are speaking and listening to them

We practised these skills by talking to our partners about what we would wish for if we could wish for anything in the world! Then we had to tell the whole class what our partner would wish for, to show that we had been a good talk partner and listened carefully. We had lots of interesting ideas, including: being an octonaut to see the fish, having a submarine, having a digger and having a one direction cake!

After that we wrote "If I had a wish I would wish" and then finished the sentence by writing about what we would wish for. We drew and coloured in pictures to go with our writing.