Welcome to TUESDAY, everybody!

Here’s our learning for the day:

And our February calendar:

3JH Reading Workshop
After Music we ate brain food whilst Mrs Handforth read Piggybook, a story by author/illustrator  Anthony Browne … Mr Piggott and his two sons behave like pigs towards poor Mrs Piggott – until, finally, she walks out. Left to fend for themselves, the male Piggotts undergo some curious changes! 

We then worked on building our reading stamina … last week we managed 10 minutes silent reading, so today we  set ourselves the challenge of 12 minutes. This was achieved by almost every one of us. Here we are engaging with books:

English: Writer’s Workshop
We shared  another Anthony Browne book called Gorilla. Whilst reading we discussed Anthony Browne’s use of colour and how he laid out text and images on the pages.

We then introduced a range of paper options for writer’s workshop, including lined, semi-lined, blank, landscape and portrait, discussing how different paper is used for different types of texts and different effects.  After this, we set ourselves a ten minute silent writing target and got busy with our own bookmaking.

 

Fitness

Some of us wanted to carry on writing today, so whilst some writers chose to continue composing, some of us headed out for a short fitness break (as it was approaching 32 degrees outside). With sunscreen and hats, we headed out for a quick game of dodgeball. Lots of fair play and teamwork in evidence today … well done!

Class Novel: Personal Response Project

We are working on individual or paired responses to our recent class novel, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. For example: Adhip is creating a Keynote presentation about Nocturnal Animals in Australia; Leo made a paper bag owl puppet with moveable wings; Gurshaan is working on a presentation about Barn Owls. Annabella asked if she could create the character of Plop the baby barn owl using Minecraft. Kobe H assisted with the foreground and cage.

Science
Mrs Stam lead us in another biological sciences lesson focusing on the common characteristics of living things. After a brief introduction in the classroom, we headed over to the MUDLA to record how some of the mammals, reptiles and aquatic life met the criteria  we had defined as being critical to classify something as a living thing.

Mrs Stam then offered us the opportunity to hold the male lizard, a Murray tortoise and a short necked turtle. Some of us were happy to watch and learn, whilst others wanted a more ‘hands-on’ experience.

On the subject of living things, last week Mason discovered some caterpillars on a lime tree outside our classroom. A couple of them are living on a branch in class, as we are keen to see if they will make a cocoon and possibly emerge as … butterflies.

Have a wonderful evening everyone, and please remember to bring in your books as it is LIBRARY tomorrow.