The Golden Toad by Shannyn

The Golden Toad by Chloe

The Moa by Brooke

The Woolly Mammoth by Balin

Digital Citizenship day

Writing Similes

Ice-Cream Similes

We were learning to write similes to make our writing more interesting. We have decided to practise writing these by thinking about ice-cream. Do you agree with our comparisons?

Phoebe:

• as soft as a white pillow
• as cold as a snowman 

Annabelle:

• as delicious as milk bottle lollies
• as melty as chocolate

Grace:

• as rainbow coloured as a rainbow cake
• as soft as a sausage

Leandra:

• as little as a little puppy dog
• as soft as a bunny

Harry: 

• as cold as the south pole
• as soft as fresh bread

Balin:

• as freezing as frost
• as tasty as pumpkin pie

Anya:

• as delicious as spaghetti bolognese
• as soft as my cat's fur

Brooke:

• as puffy as Marge Simpson's hair
• as exciting as working on a chrome book

Hannah:

• as delicious as pavlova
• as yummy as cookies and cream ice-cream with a flake in it

Abigail:

• as soft as a feather
• as crunchy as a biscuit

PJ:

• as cold as the North Pole
• as delicious as an American hot dog

Nathan:

• as exciting as going hunting
• as runny as chocolate in the sun 

Lucas:

• as delicious as chocolate milk
• as exciting as getting a surprise

Logan:

• as cold as Pluto
• as green as a frog

Sefton:

• as delicious as hot chocolate
• as soft as wet cream

Chloe:

• as delicious as candy floss 
• as exciting as going to MOTAT

Annabelle:

• as big as a book
• as delicious as cheese cake

Kayla:

• as big as the Sky tower
• as melty as ice

Keegan:

• as big as a t-rex
• as soft as a cushion

Joe:

• as mouthwatering as chocolate
• as soft as my dog's fur

Thomas:

• as soft as a fluffy blanket
• as runny as chocolate

Shannyn:

• as soft as squishy cream
• as melty as chocolate left in the sun

Isabel:

• as soft as marshmallows
• as big as a tower

Questioning

We are learning to write questions. Some questions can be thin...

Some questions can be thick...

Here are some of our questions about our investigation into technology. 

Sometimes we have other questions too...

Come and have a look at our wonder wall to see more of our questions.

Look at our paragraphs

PJ

Harry

Factual Reports - Brooke

Factual report - Toucans

Factual Report writing and Slide shows

We were  learning about how animals are impacted on through weather changes and the choices we make.  We investigated some animals, their habitats and discovered what impacted on these animals. 

Read more about our inquiries by watching these slideshows. They are our first attempts and we are very proud of them. 


Factual Report - Great White Shark

Giving feedback to my buddy.

Today we were learning to give feedback to a buddy. We first read through the recounts, making sure we understood everything. Then we checked the stories again and we looked for something that was done well and something that could be improved on. We shared it with our buddies and they wrote it down in their books. This will be the next step for our writing. 

How am I doing

We are learning to check our writing.
After writing our stories, we spend time on rereading, improving and editing our spelling. We also check how we are going with our use of ideas, capital letters, etc. Here is an example of how we use colour coding to do this. 

Things to celebrate:
a good start to using a thinking map
capital letters at the beginning of each sentence
accurate sounding out

Self-Assessment

We have been learning to assess our writing. We used colours to identify the different aspects that we had to include in our writing. Some of these were capital letters and full stops. 

Science in a Van

By Grace

My holiday By Abigail

Look at how Shannyn has used her detailed plan to write the recount. She missed two lines when she started a new paragraph.

Writing Paragraphs

Shannyn created this thinking map using who, what when, where and how questions to help her add detail to the thinking map. Next she will use the colour coding to help her write simple paragraphs. 

Acrostic Poems

Today we were writing acrostic poems about Easter. We used the word 'eggs'. See what we came up with. 

 Easter bunnies came to our house

 Go after them

 Good easter eggs

 So we found the eggs

  By Grace

Easter eggs are yum!

Giving eggs is kind.

Give your eggs to your teacher.

Surprise a special friend.

By Brooke

Easter eggs are very special.

Good Easter eggs taste delicious.

Go hunting to find Easter eggs.

Share every Easter egg you find.

By Logan

Easter was in the weekend.

Giving Easter eggs to people is good.

Go and find easter eggs. It is fun!

Some Easter eggs can be big, some medium and some can be small.

By Ned

Eggs that are chocolate are yum!

Giving them to people is fun!

Great for practising looking for things.

Sunny on Easter,... hopefully.

By Hannah

Easter eggs are very yummy. They are sometimes chocolate or white chocolate. 

Gold Easter eggs! They are yummy.

Grandpa came to our house. He gave us Easter eggs.

Share my eggs with my sister. It was a good Easter you .

By Thomas

          

Easter is a happy time.

Good to have Easter.

   Go EASTER bunny. GOO, GOO, GO!

So much chocolate to eat.

By Nathan

Easter eggs is something you get during Easter.

Good boys and girls only get eggs.
Go get some Easter eggs for Easter!

Some eggs are big and some are small. 

By Joe

Eggs are good.

Go and get eggs.

Good sharing eggs.

Surprise! Eggs, eggs.

by Abigail