Summarising Hunt On The Ice

In reading we have been learning to summarise information in a text. We have done this by answering the who, what, why, when, where and how questions. The book we read was Hunt on the Ice, it was about a Polar Bear family who were searching for food.

I found it easy to change the size.
I found it tricky to work slowly.
Next time I need to work on going slowly.

Postcard

In writing we have been learning to think about the writers point of view. We are reading the book "The Faraway Tree" by Enid Blyton in class. The book is about a little girl called Connie whose mother is ill so she is sent to live with her Mothers friend and her children Jo, Bessie and Franny. The children show her the Faraway tree and to begin with she doesn't believe them.

We have been talking about how Connie might have felt and what she would have said to her Mother.We decided to write a post card from Connie to her Mother,trying to think about what Connie would say.

I found it hard to concentrate with lots of people talking.

I found it easy to do the post card on the computer.

Next time I need to work on ignoring people who are being loud.

Story Telling

During our Te Tuhi workshop "Creative Stories" we learnt about the different ways a story can be told. We explored our story "The Lorax" through role play and then created our own poster.

I found it hard to take my time when creating my poster.

I found it easy to work out what I was going to make.

Next time I need to work on going slower.

Volume Challenge

For maths week we have been learning about measurement. Yesterday we talked about volume. We learnt that to work out the volume of a shape you use length x width x height. Our challenge was to work in pairs and use the unlink cubes to make as many different creations as we could, with a volume of 8. I found it easy to times the length and width and then height. I found it hard to decide the structure. Next time I to work on planing the structure.