Narrative Writing

Today we have been learning how to write the setting in a narrative. Miss Coffer put a picture of a beach up on the Mimio and we had to describe it. We did a brainstorm in groups and came up with a W.A.L.T and  S.C.  Our W.A.L.T was describe the setting of a beach and our S.C. was :

• Use 4 sentences
• 5 senses
• Use adjectives
• Use similes
• Use personification

We had to start with "I stood at the beach" and we couldn't use more than 1 simile, metaphor or personification in our description. Below are some examples and some photos of the brainstorms. Enjoy!!!

I stood at the beach tasting a tantalising milky coconut, gazing at the lush green tropics.

I stood at the beach and I saw the rainbow coloured tropical fish gliding through the crystal clear, glimmering water.

The cry of a seagull overhead, sharp and loud.

 By Bill

For reading, Tom and Cole have come up with a rap based on the Olympics. We practised all together, and then recorded it. We hope you like it!

By Shervonne

new website to visit

http://www.khanacademy.org/

This website has a huge range of exciting lessons. Worth a look. Miss J.

Alliteration is fun

Miss Coffer has been teaching us alliteration. Here are some of our poems.

Megan mastered the skill of making monkey's manipulate monopoly players in Mongolier, 1995 - March. She made them manipulate millions of men. Maybe Megan will manipulate the monkey's too!
By Megan

Thomas the tough tiger trampeled over the tallest bird in the world, then the super tiger saved Tom from the tough tiger.
By Nathan

Cole cooked cold chickens with crazy cats in a cool cave with coal, in a country called Combodia for his colourful cows.
By Cole

Sneaky Shaina with super sneakers stared at Sarah sipping strawberry juice at the shorline on Sunday while sketching Sally between six and seven p.m.
By Alena

Loving Lara let longevity Lewis live by the lake and lick lemon lime lollies and lollipops at the little lagoon.
By Lara

Riley rides a radiocarbon rocket while reinfecting rainbow riding and radius reading reindeer who are red.
By Riley

Joyful Justine jumped on a juggling ball while eating a jam sandwhich with Jacob, Jack, Jess and Jethro on a jet in June.
By Justine

Experiments gone wrong

Hi everyone, Room 2 was busy writing up scientific experiments as part of procedural writing. We wrote up an experiment and brought in all the things we needed for the experiment.
The catch was, Miss J wanted us to do someone's elses experiment to see if we could follow their instructions!!  We all passed with flying colours. Here are some pictures.

This week we have been presenting our inquiry project that we have been working on all term. Our theme has been Medicine. Some ideas were accupuncture, artificial legs, bones, MRI equipment, colds / flu and body parts. We learnt a lot of different information about a range of medical treatments and themes. It was great that we got to pick our own topic of inquiry.  By Room 2

Don't forget to be writing the speeches for next term. Your children have been given their speech planning booklets with some hints and success criteria for them to follow. They don't need to be perfect (but they should be finished), as we will be editing throughout the first week. Thanks. Miss J. Have great holidays, get some rest and have fun.

writing scientific procedures

Room 2 has been learning to write Scientific procedures. You need a Hypothesis, Materials, Method, Results and a Conclusion. We wrote a whole class one on how to make popcorn. Our hypothosis was How long would it take for all the kernals to pop, we estimated 2.30seconds. This was exciting because we got to eat the popcorn afterwards.

Next week we are writing up our own experiments. Other students will then try to follow them and complete the experiment.This will interesting to see how well we wrote our instructions. We can't wait. By Abby.



Assembly items and reports

Today we had to run our Senior School Assembly. We showed our finished poisonous flowers which looked stunning as we walked around. Some of us got to dance on stage to the Elmo song. That was great fun. We did really well and everyone loved our items.

We have been writing reports about Anzac Day, Colin Murdoch and Louis Pasteur. Alena, Justine and Lewis, presented their reports at our assembly.

  

Next week we hope to have some pictures up of our finished flowers for you to see.

Also we started WOW - Word Of the Week. Our first word was undulating, this week Thomas picked - Quaeritate which means - to question. Look out in your children's communication books for next week's WOW. By Abby and Anthony