Grade 2/3 Habitats and information booklets

This week we wrote our own information booklets using our ideas from our inquiries about animals and their habitats and our knowledge of informative writing. We looked at the structure of information texts and non-fiction books to help us structure our booklets and decided to include contents pages and glossaries to help our readers.

We included diagrams to make the information clear and interesting to look at.

We used coloured writing for the words that we explained in our glossaries.

We also had some fun creating habitats online at the following website: http://mrnussbaum.com/habitats/

G4/5 Energy Research

This week we have researched different kinds of non-renewable energy, looking at where they come from and how they work. We highlighted the strategies we used to identify the meanings of new words while we worked.

We have also found out about some of the positive and negative aspects of our chosen type of energy.

Grade 2/3 The Becrog.

We have discovered a new species!

The Becrog lives in the wetlands of Canada

Here is some information we wrote about it:

Grade 4/5 Focus on Energy

The Central Idea for the current Grade 4/5 Unit of Inquiry is: Energy exists in different forms. Students have looked at a variety of things, but they particularly enjoyed finding out about the different types of energy and making posters to explain them:

 Here are some of their posters:

Grade 2/3 Book Reviews

Grade 2/3 Full Support students are working hard to create two useful folders for the EAL classroom. One of these folders contains reviews for books they have enjoyed and one contains reviews for books they have not enjoyed.

Concentrating hard.

Starting the reviews.

Grade 4/5 Giving Directions

Today, Grade 4/5 Full Support students took a break from ISA testing to practise prepositions of place and giving directions. First, they took it in turns to hide an object somewhere in the classroom and then they gave each other directions to find it.

Next, they were given a map, which was used to give directions from one place to another. Key words covered included forwards, backwards, straight on, left, right, in between, under, on, next to, opposite, inside and outside.

Grade 4/5 Maths vocab

We have been focusing on expanding our Maths vocabulary, looking at the four number operations and also 2D and 3D shape names and properties.

This matching game helps students to learn which words go with which number operation. The black and white version is much harder, but we are getting pretty good at it now.  

Grade 2/3 Healthy Living

As part of their Healthy Living Unit, Grade 2/3 students researched the topic: People eat too much junk food today. They then prepared informative posters for display around school and arguments for and against the topic for a debate.

The debate was very exciting and both teams did a really good job of arguing their points persuasively and responding to what others had said sensibly.

Grade 2/3's also enjoyed researching and creating persuasive leaflets about using water responsibly as part of this unit.

Grade 2/3 story plans

Grade 2/3 have been learning about the narrative genre and planning, writing and performing stories. Here are two students briefly reading through their story plans.

Grade 4/5 perform their own stories

This week, Grade 4/5 read an extract from a story called The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark and then finished the story off themselves. After checking and editing their work, they filmed themselves reading their stories whilst working on adding expression. Here are two of them: