Our main genre type that we have been focusing on this term has been Persuasion Writing. What is the purpose? The purpose of a persuasive text is to develop ideas and supporting details in order to present a logical argument from a particular point of view. We began by discussing the structure of persuasive texts… Read More Can you convince me?
Division is splitting into equal parts or groups. For example if there are 12 chocolates, and 3 friends want to share them, how do they divide the chocolates? The answer would be 12 divided by 3 is 4: they get 4 each. As a class we talked about how division is the opposite to multiplication. Therefore if… Read More What is Division?
This Term Ms Sweeney has been teaching our class about Great Sea Journeys. So far we have looked at two important explorers called Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus. We began by creating some questions that we wanted to research about these two explorers. Everyone created 7 questions and then half of our class researched… Read More Great Sea Journeys
The quotes are back! This is a great one to begin with!! Can you explain what this quote means in your own words? Do you think people can predict the future, why or why not?
Our science topic for this term is called Material World. In this topic we have been learning about: the properties of materials and how they relate to use how to test the properties of materials fairly and how to use this knowledge to choose materials wisely. Which materials have desirable properties but have less impact… Read More It’s a material world
National Simultaneous Story Time is a yearly event that helps encourage young Australians to read and enjoy books. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. It is now into its 15th… Read More National Simultaneous Story Time 2015
From Monday – Wednesday of Week 4 Room 10 and Room 12 went to Camp Illawonga at Swan Reach. It was an action packed camp with so many activities to do and new information to learn about. Below are just some of the many activities we participated in: A boat ride along the Murray… Read More Camp Illawonga 2015
It is important for everyone to learn and know a range of reading strategies. At the moment we are focusing on the strategy ‘predicting’. Effective readers use pictures, titles, headings, and text—as well as personal experiences—to make predictions before they begin to read. Predicting involves thinking ahead while reading and anticipating information and events in… Read More What can we predict?
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Mum’s around the world! The celebration of Mother’s Day began in America in 1908 and was created by a lady named Anna Jarvis. She wanted a day where people could honor their Mother’s, and from there countries like Australia followed in their footsteps. This year we made our mums… Read More Mothers Day 2015
We have been very lucky last term to have had the opportunity for Allan to visit our room and teach us about playing chess! This is something Grange school values highly and many students in all different year levels including from our class attend chess sessions with Allan at school on a regular basis. The… Read More Chess Tournament 2015