Character and Setting Descriptions – Robots

Over the last two weeks, we have been writing a variety of character and setting descriptions. We used our senses to help us write descriptions and included similes to make it more interesting. Some of us used personification and onomatopoeia.

Internet Research – Roman Shields

During ICT, we searched the internet for different Roman shield designs. When we found one we liked, we used Paint to draw the design. Here are some of our designs.

Open Afternoon

On Friday afternoon, parents were invited into school. Children were able to share their work and work with their parents.
It was a wonderful opportunity for all!

 

Creating a Clay Dragon

We have had an amazing time making our clay dragons with Louise. We used lots of utensils to create a range of effects on our dragons. Some of us made 3D dragons and some of us made square shaped pots with dragons wrapped around them. We will have our clay dragons back in approximately two weeks, after they have been fired in the kiln.
Here are some photographs of us creating our clay models and holding our final creations.

 

Information Text – Komodo Dragons

This week we have been writing an information text (non-chronological report) on komodo dragons. We worked in pairs to write the paragraphs but decided independently how to present our work.

Here are some examples.

Dragon Dancing

In PE we have been creating sequences of dance moves to represent dragons.

Features of a Non-chronological Report

Next week we are going to be writing a non-chronological report about komodo dragons. In preparation for the writing task, we looked at a range of information texts and drew out the key features.

The most common features were:

• Big, bold title
• Paragraphs
• Subheadings
• Facts/fact boxes
• Pictures / photographs
• Captions
• Labels
• Diagrams

We used Post-it Notes and stuck them on examples we found in a range of texts.

Basketball

We are fortunate to have a basketball coach with us this term, to teach us lots of new skills and techniques. Friday afternoon saw the start of our basketball sessions, with lots of dribbling and passing to our partners.

Pentatonic Scale

As part of our music curriculum, we have started learning about the pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale consists of five notes and are the black notes on a keyboard. Many songs have been sung using this scale. We sang a few songs including ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ and ‘I’m Gonna Sing’. We also experimented playing the pentatonic scale.

Listen to our beautiful singing!

This is a youtube clip – it is hidden and unlisted, you need the link to be able to view it.
We had a great time trying to play songs on the pentatonic scale.

This is a youtube video showing Bobby Mcferrin demonstrating the pentatonic scale

We wrote some facts about the pentatonic scale.

      

Materials in our classroom

Today, we have been finding objects in our classroom and identifying the material used to make them. We found lots of different materials including, wood, metal, plastic, glass and rubber.

We created a tally chart and bar chart to show our results.

      

This a tally chart showing the different materials.

This is a bar chart representing our results.