G2/3 Welcome Back!

This term we are happy to welcome back a friendly face!!

Today is Wacky Wednesday!

Wacky Wednesday at ISPP

When I got to school,

It was so cool,

ABC was not in order,

Shoes were around the border,

The tables had human legs,

Everyone was eating eggs,

The stairs switched sides,

Teachers were following guides,

Books could talk,

Folders could walk,

Miss Carolyn was upside down,

King was wearing a crown,

I looked at the sky,

Miss Mom could fly,

Reach was a pop star,

Who lived in a chocolate bar,

Nikor had super powers,

And made everyone take showers,

Babies were crawling up the walls,

I needed to make some calls!

By: King, Nikor and Reach

G4/5 Autobiographies

Over the last few weeks, G4/5 students have been reading and writing biographies and autobiographies. During EAL, we looked at the structure of these texts and then worked in groups to create rubrics for How to write a good autobiography. 

We thought carefully about what to put in each section of our rubric.

After creating time-lines for our own lives, we used these to write our autobiographies. We then evaluated our own writing using our rubrics, before swapping with a partner to see if their evaluations matched ours. The results were very interesting and we had some great discussions about the structure, accuracy and content of our writing.

We didn't always agree with each other's assessments!

G2/3 Punctuation Kung-Fu!

G2/3 students have been learning about punctuation and practicing adding punctuation to familiar texts. This week, we used an extract from a book called The Clay Dog, which we have all read and enjoyed during EAL lessons. 

We added punctuation to extracts which had had the punctuation removed - using Kung-Fu moves! We took it in turns to read the text, pausing to allow our partners to perform the moves when necessary. It was great fun - and when it was time to add the punctuation in writing, we did REALLY well. 

Speech marks!

Full stops!

G2/3 Perform 'The Tenses' Song

This week, G2/3 students have been learning about the tenses. Together, they brainstormed performance ideas and decided how they were going to perform 'The Tenses' song. During the following lesson, they had their final practice and then performed to Miss Tatiana's groups.

The children showed a great deal of confidence and were willing to take risks by performing in front of their peers. They did extremely well and the audiences listened carefully and enjoyed the performances.

If you would like to listen to and watch the original song, then please follow this link: The Tenses Song

G2/3 students watching their own performances. 

Unfortunately, the videos of the performances are too large to include in this blog post, but feel free to drop me an email and I can share them with you through Gmail.

G4/5 Nelson Mandela

In their unit of inquiry, G4/5 students have been learning about famous world leaders. During EAL, they researched Nelson Mandela, created time-lines for his life and then presented their information orally to their peers.

Having discussed the language needs for biographies, they are now creating a rubric for how to write a good biography, which they will use next week to evaluate their own biographies. 

Fun with Acrostic Poems

This week, Grade 2/3 had such good fun writing acrostic poems about different forms of artistic expression, that the Grade 4/5 students decided to write some as well! 

We used the following website to plan and write our group poems, before working independently, using different words linked to our UOI: 
 http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/

G2/3's impressions of painting

G2/3 think about the work of n artist

G4/5 on what it takes to be a good school principal

More thoughts from G4/5 on how to be a good school principal