Literacy Circles 3

We have been working hard on our literacy circles.
We are thinking about reading other posts and asking questions.

Our second task this week is summariser.
Summariser
- Complete a 10 line summary of the story.
- Don’t tell us the whole story, just the important events and characters.
- When you have read it or posted, your group will tell you if you have missed something important.

Come and read the summaries of the Wolf Testifies.

Literacy Circles 2

We are still learning about literacy circles.
This week our first focus is being a Word Detective
We have to:
- Find 6 interesting, unusual, hard or funny words from the story.
- Find their definition
- Use the thesaurus to find a synonym for these words.
- Try to put these words in a sentence.

Have a read of our word detective tasks!

Video Conferencing

With our literacy circles we are lucky to be able to video conference with Room 19.

Did you enjoy video conferencing?
What do you need to do differently next time you video conference?
What needs to be improved?

Let me know your thoughts and opinions!

Literacy Circles

For the next few weeks the Kiwi Reading Group is learning how to take part in literacy circles.
A literacy circle is when a group of students that are reading the same book meet and discuss the book.
A way to enable to students to gain deeper understanding of a story.
Enhancing literacy circles:
- Students having different roles/tasks to complete
- Having group discussions
- Blogging each task/role and allowing others to add their own opinions to comments posted
- Video conferencing with other classes reading the same book

We are reading 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs' by Jon Scieszka.
We are learning to do the role of character describer.
- Describe the main characters
- This means describing their personality, looks, likes and dislikes.
- What impact do they have on the story?
Have a read of our tasks...
Post comments or question to provoke deeper understanding of the text.

Holidays

Hi all,

I hope you are all having a great holiday!
What have you been doing?

Movie Making

We have been learning about making movies.
With the help of Year 6 students we have been making movies.

What have you enjoyed about the movie making?

Mellons Bay School Life

We are going to make movies about Mellons Bay School Life.

What makes Mellons Bay School special?
What do you like about school?

Earth and the Solar System

What facts do you know about Planet Earth or about our Solar System?

Lets build a fact file on our blog...

Planet Earth and Beyond

Our topic this term is all about Planet Earth and Space.

What do you know about Planet Earth?
What do you know about Space?

We will have fun this term learning about Planet Earth and Space.
We will make some models and do some experiments.

School Holidays

Welcome back to Term 3

I hope you all had a great holiday! I went to Adelaide for a little trip, had a great time!
What did you get up to?

Persuasive Writing

We have been learning about persuasive writing.
WALT convince the reader to agree with us.
Success Criteria:
Open with a statement about the issue being addressed.
State your position (agree/disagree) on the statement.
Create an argument – give reasons to support your opinion.
End with a summary.

Here is our first persuasive writing piece.
Written by Room 15 in Term 2 Week 8.

The Big Bad Wolf’s Trial
The wolf in no way should be jailed for his actions because he wasn’t the only one behaving badly.
The wolf’s story needs to be told to the public who will realize that he should be let free.
Firstly the pigs could also be sent to jail because they didn’t let him in. The wolf asked to be let in and gave them a chance to do it. The 3 pigs could of fed him other meats.
Secondly, wolves must eat red meat so they can survive.
Did you realize that wolves eating red meat is all a part of the food chain? It would be cruel to make the wolf starve, he needs the meat for energy and to survive. Come on, have you ever seen a wolf that is a vegetarian?
Thirdly, he shouldn’t be jailed because the cruel pigs punished him already, by making him fall into boiling water. The wolf has learnt his lesson and the next time he is hungry, he will go to the supermarket to buy some meat.
As you have heard the arguments about not jailing the wolf, you have to agree that he is innocent. He has been ignored and hated all his life. Why is it that the wolf is always the bad guy? It’s about time that the public knows the truth. We believe that he should be set free to enjoy life.

Have you been enjoying persuasive writing? Tell/Show your Mum and Dad what we have been learning...

Mad Science Week

What have you enjoyed this week?
What experiments have you done at home?
Have you been discussing what we have been doing with your family?

Marble Jar

Yay!

We have finally got 100 marbles! It took us 1 term and 7 weeks.

Let's see if we can fill our marble jar quicker this time!

Science

What experiment would you like to do with our buddy class next week?

Mad Science Week

On the 22nd of June to the 29th of June we have a school wide Mad Science Week.
We will have fun experiments at lunchtimes.
We will visit different classes in our syndicate and do experiments.
We will spend a lot of time with our buddy class.

It is going to be a fun week!

Science Experiments

We have been learning about what happens when we mix ingredients.

We have been doing science experiments in class.

What experiments have you enjoyed?

Have you done any experiments at home?