We have been learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives this term during our class literacy sessions. We have been practising the skills we have learnt at various learning stations. These photos were of our verb stations. Firstly we had verb charades, where we had fun trying to act out some of the ‘doing/being’ words. Miss Bissett also had fun watching some of our actions! 🙂 Next up, we had to write a verb of our choice in funky lettering that matched the meaning, e.g. the verb ‘melt’ was done in melting lettering like an ice lolly in the sun. Some of our ideas were very ingenious. We had a ‘juicy verbs’ task where we had to upgrade the day-to-day verbs for ‘juicer’ more exciting ones. We also worked as a group to choose a location (noun) e.g. beach, and we had a set amount of time to come up with as many verbs as we could that you could ‘do’ at that location.

Finally, we had two other stations, a noun/verb/adjective sorting area with sentences to write and an animal verb station where we had to list verbs that animals could do, e.g. lion – roar, prowl, sunbathe, etc.

All in all, we had lots of fun putting our learning about verbs into practise. Next up….Adverbs! 🙂

We have been learning more about the water cycle this week. We made our own rain clouds using shaving foam and water coloured with blue food colouring. It was so much fun! The shaving foam represented all of the rain drops when they start to condense to make a cloud. We used a syringe to add weight to the shaving foam cloud, just like what would happen in real life. The cloud would eventually get too heavy and the water droplets would get bigger and fall as rain. The proper name is precipitation! It looked really cool. 

As part of our IDL topic ‘Wonderful Water’, we have been learning all about the water cycle. We know the names of the four main stages of the cycle. The first is evaporation, next is condensation, after that it is precipitation and finally collection.

We were learning about what actually happens at each stage. To demonstrate the stages of the water cycle, we carried out a simple experiment called ‘Water Cycle in a Bowl’.

We half filled a clear glass bowl with boiling water. We put a mug in the middle of the bowl, making sure that no water got inside. We then measured what the water level was. We covered the bowl with cling film and watched what happened. We made our own predictions about what we thought would happen, based on what we know about the water cycle. It was very interesting! 🙂