Planning for Writing: 5 W's and 1 H

This term for writing we have been working hard at improving our planning for writing, and making our writing more interesting for our audience.  

We have been using the 5 W's (what?, when?, where?, who? and why?) and 1 H (how?) to help us add information that we can then transfer to our writing.  We have also been adding labels to diagrams.  These steps help us when we are choosing the sequence of our ideas too.

Here are some examples of our planning:

Cross Country

Check out some of the great photos from our recent Cross Country.  We used motivation, persistence and determination to make it across the the finish line. Way to go Room 5!

Christmas Celebration Survey

An OPTIONAL Christmas celebration survey is coming your way!  

Room 5 are learning about the different ways we celebrate.  As part of this, we have made a fun survey for our Room 5 families to take part in.  Students have been given a paper copy of the survey they developed, on which is also a link to do the survey online if you prefer.  

We appreciate any data you can give us as we will be using this in our Inquiry research and for graphing data in Maths.

If you choose to take part as a family, please either fill the survey in online or send it back on paper ASAP so we can get graphing!

Thanks 

Agricultural Day Prep

Note to parents/caregivers:
In preparation for Ag. Day, some of our activities at the end of this week are going to get a bit messy! We ask that you send your child in older clothes, that you don’t mind getting paint on, this Friday 14th November.

We are also going to be creating small flower arrangements on this day to go in vases we have decorated in class. If you can, please send along on Friday with your child, some greenery and flowers for this activity. Please remember that whatever you have in your garden (or Gran’s or the neighbour’s garden) is fine – no need to buy anything. Hunting it out is half the fun! If you have any extras, we would appreciate them too. 

Thanks!

Have a sneak peek at the first stage of the paint dipping of our vase bottles...

News Note

Coming home in a school bag near you!

3 November 2014

Room 5 are looking forward to a busy last term of this year.  Our Inquiry topic will involve finding out more about how and why we celebrate, within our community and in other cultures.  The children have begun doing some great wondering and asking fantastic questions.

Also in less than 2 weeks, we have our annual Agricultural Day to look forward to on Saturday 15^th November.  Ag. Day preparations have already begun at home for those with a lamb, calf, goat or garden, and work is continuing in class on our projects here.  Room 5 are looking forward to sharing our Ag. Day learning with you.

CELEBRATIONS

Room 5 have been doing some superb inquiring into the hows and whys of celebrations in communities.  We have been thinking about, talking about, and finding out more about some of the celebrations we know well and others that are less familiar.  We also have created a 'Wonder Wall' for our celebration wonderings and will be refining our questions for inquiry.  What curious minds we have!