Joe and Ryan's Blog

Journalist Day:

On Journalist day we have been learning about news reports and Journalists. On Wednesday we were dressing up as Journalists but u didn't have to. We were wearing ties and it looked really smart . A news reporter come in to our school,Her name was Martine Croxel. We were talking about The 5 W's and the skills and responsibility to be a Journalists.  After the talk we started to plan are news report.  We got split into groups and then we started sorting out which part we were having in our groups. We started rehearsing in our groups and it was really fun and interesting. when we started are news report we were not allowed to make any mistakes or laugh. Finally we finished all of the news reports and watched them back on Thursday.

Art:      

In art we have been learning about mosaics, we could either do a snake or a face.It was really hard but fun. When they were finished they looked very effective and stood out a lot with the bright colours especially with the yellow and red.

    Spelling:

We are learning in spelling about silent letters and this week its N, P and U. We also have been learning about how to spell them and try ad use them in sentences in our writing. Soon we will be doing a test on the words we have learned.

 

Maths:

In maths we have been  learning to use subtraction column method. We also have been learning how to use decimal subtraction. Also we have been learning about solving problems.

Literacy: 

In literacy we have been learning to find the Orientation, Reorientation, Headline, Caption and the Photo. Below will tell u what they mean.

Reorientation: what's happening right now.

Caption: is the label of the photo, describing it.

Orientation: is a quick summary about what happened.

Headline: is what they are talking about.

Photo: the picture to get a better scene of what happened.

Science: 

In Science we have been learning to about particles. We wrote a story on what we think a perfume particle  would be like, overall I think we did well and everyone wrote good stories.

Star of the week:

Joke of the week:

Writer of the week

This week's writer of the week is Flo for her fantastic poem based on smiling.

The piece has been published on lendmeyourliteracy website and has already received some lovely comments. Why not have a look and make a comment yourself? 

http://lendmeyourliteracy.com/smiling-poetry/