Oral Language Activity - Giving Instructions

We have been learning about writing instructions. Today we did an oral language activity where we had to give instructions to a buddy on how to draw a simple picture. It was challenging at times to give really specific instructions so that our buddy knew exactly what to draw. In our pairs, we were either 'Person A' or 'Person B'. Person A started by giving Person B instructions on how to draw a bee, and then we swapped over and Person B gave Person A instructions on how to draw a plant. This was good practise for next week, when we are going to try writing instructions for drawing either a ladybird, an owl, or a snowman.

The Longest Scarf in the World- Adding text to a book

Over the last two weeks, we have continued with the task of adding text to a book. This time we wrote a narrative to match the pictures for the book using Explain Everything or Google Slides. "The Longest Scarf in the World. This was a much longer book and provided us with the opportunity to add a lot more detail.

We had to:

- include adjectives

- use conjunctions

- use the same tense 

- try to use similes

Retold By Sophia

Retold By Mikayla

Retold By Akeilah

Retold By Patrik

Retold By Lee Chin

Measuring our heights using string

In maths, we are learning about measurement. Today we had fun measuring our heights using string. When we measured each other, we made sure that we started measuring from our heels, right up to the top of our heads. Then, we laid the strings out on the table to compare our heights. After that, we lined up in order to check if our string measurements were accurate, and they were! Ethaniel is the tallest, followed by Cody. Gracie, Victor and Ngawari are all about the same height. Ocey and Mesake are also about the same height, and are the shortest in our group.

Buy this jersey!

In Cybersmart with Miss Morgan last week, we created short ads to sell our jersey. We had to try to remember to:

- introduce ourselves
- say what we were selling
- describe the jersey's purpose (so that you would want to buy it)
- give a price
- say where you can buy it from

Have a look at some of our adverts- would you want to buy any of our jerseys?

By Cadie and Faith

By Ruby and Aiden

By Tia and Lukus

By Briana and Ananta

Scarlett and Tyrese

Instructions

How to make jelly.

This week we have been learning how to write instructions. 

We learnt that you have to be bossy when writing instructions and start each instruction with a strong verb.

You have to put the instructions in order and began by telling people what you need. 

We wrote instructions on how to make jelly.

Here are some examples of our work and the pictures we took to help us remember.

Addition to 10

Dakota, Lucas and Cadie have been learning about addition number patterns to 10.

They have been using this puzzle help them learn the different ways to show the number.


What activities do you do to help you learn your Maths?

Subtracting using Place Value

Over the last few weeks in maths, we have been learning to use place value to solve addition problems. This week, we tried using the place value strategy with subtraction problems. Briana, Warren, Olivia, Lee Chin and Mia recorded their thinking on a whiteboard.

Emotion Art

Here is some Emotion art that some of us did when we learned about Emotions.

First of all we learned about the different colours and the different emotions that they can sometimes represent.

Then we each did an emotions wheel, using different colours and patterns that represented these emotions for us.

Then we chose a medium through either photography or paint to show a chosen emotion.

How would you represent the different emotions?

Leap Frog- Writing text for a book

This week we have been sentences to go with pictures in a book called 'Leap Frog' that had no words. We could do a made up story or a description.

We found it challenging trying to think of our own text to fit in with the pictures. It was important  for us to include adjectives and interesting sentences. Some of us added detail to our sentences by using conjunctions to add more. A challenge for us was to use a hook or onomatopoeia to include sound effects.

Here are some of our books. Some of them were made using Google Slides and some were made using Explain Everything.
Can you give us some feedback?



By Mikayla

By Sophia

By Lukus

By Akeilah

By Eligh

By Olly

By Eli J

By Briana

By Tyrese

By Taylor

Chatter Pix

Yesterday we played with our learning and had some sandpit time with Chatter Pix. We took a picture of the book we are reading and recorded ourselves reading. Here are some of our finished videos.

Sick Sentences

This week, we have been working on some more sick sentences. We started off with a picture of an old railroad, and some sentences that weren't very good. We talked about what was in the picture and we talked about how we could make the sick sentences better. While we did each fix our own sentences, we also fixed them as a class. This is what we came up with...

They sat in the creepy, spooky woods. As they lit a smokey fire, the mist rose up into the air. They constructed a tiny campsite with miniature logs. While they put up their tent, they told scary stories. Suddenly they heard a paranormal noise floating through the woods, and they felt a bizarre feeling inside.