A warm welcome to Tuesday, everyone.
READING WORKSHOP
Today we shared the rather funny story, Eleanor’s Eyebrows written by Timothy Knapman and illustrated by David Tazzyman.
What would you do if your eyebrows disappeared? Would you notice? Would you care?When Eleanor’s eyebrows disappear, she doesn’t care one bit. After all what’s the point of eyebrows – they’re just two silly, scruffy, hairy little bits of fluff!
We then worked on continuing to develop our reading stamina with a target to 13 minutes focussed, uninterrupted reading.
Well done, everyone – we did it! Next target … 14 minutes!
WRITER’S WORKSHOP
We are working towards becoming independent writers. Today we discussed two strategies that can assist us to get started quickly with our writing.
The first is reading our writing to spark a new idea. Mrs Handforth read an information book about horses, which she had started last year. We helped generate ideas for a new section. Some great suggestions included: habitat 9where they live), diet (what they eat), senses (hearing, smelling, and so on) and life cycle of a horse.
The second is borrowing an idea from another author. Mrs Handforth revisited the text, Eleanor’s Eyebrows and we discussed ways in which we could borrow the idea of a part of our body leaving us to start a new life elsewhere: What would the body part do? How would we cope without it?
We then continued with our writing whilst our teachers conferenced with individual writers.
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- Leo is writing a book about a character called ‘Ritchie’, who has millions of dollars!
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- Deekska has created more pages for her information book about Budgies
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- A page from Gurshaan’s Minecraft information book
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- More Minecraft information writing, this time by Jasper
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- Ravleen’s robot story
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- My’s book has a cover and a blurb on the back page
CLASS NOVEL
Today we embarked on a new class novel journey … we are reading and responding to Roald Dahl’s, The Twits!
Carmelo told us that he has a copy of the book, but that the cover is different to the one Mrs Handforth was reading. Well done, Carmelo! The Twits was first written in 1979, so it has been re-published over the years with lots of different covers. Recognise any of these?
We read up to page 6, learning about ‘Hairy Faces’ and Mr Twit’s particularly disgusting hairy face. Apparently Mr Twit NEVER washes his facial hair and it is full of mouldy food. Yuk!
We looked at a ‘close up’ or ‘zoom in’ picture of his beard and then drew our versions, placing in some revolting food items form our own imaginations. Here’s a sample:
SCIENCE
In the afternoon, Mrs Stam set up the provocation of researching a living thing and presenting our learning in a way of our own choosing. Everyone got busy on their laptops and began to investigate their chosen mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird or bug. We will certainly be learning about some very interesting critters! More to come …
