Primary 3.2 wrote a book called ‘The Day the Pencils Quit.’ As we had been using punctuation to help us read with expression, we invited P1 to hear our story. We used expression to read a page each.
Primary 1 then sang us some songs they had been learning.
We went on a shape hunt in the playground. We found lots of 2D and 3D shapes, and we also found right angles.
The windows are rectangles and squares and they have right angles. – Albie.
I found a right angle on the Buddy Stop and it’s a rectangle. – Jessica
The corner of snakes and ladders is a right angle and it’s a square. – Zoe
The corner of the rectangle is a right angle. – Josh
We were very lucky to have a visit from Hoots Owls. We learned all about owls and got to hold Magic and Merlin. An owl flew over the top of us as we lay on the floor.
We have been identifying 3D shapes. We knew all of their names and correctly matched up each shape with it’s name.
Alex – Cuboids faces are made up of rectangles and squares.
Jessica – Cones have got a circle on the bottom.
Lauren –Cubes faces are all squares.
Albie – I spotted that a some of the pyramids had a square on the bottom but one had a triangle.
Over the last few weeks we have been opening a document, typing, copying and pasting and inserting Clip Art. We also had to resize the picture and save our document.
Andrew – I used Clip Art to put football pictures on my page.
Lauren – Resizing the picture was really hard.
Albie – I resized the picture all by myself.
We have been discussing how we are all different and special in our own way. We also made posters to Show Racism the Red Card.
Jessica – It doesn’t matter what we look like we are all the same underneath.
Alex – We can all have differnt things we can do.
Andrew – We used capital letters for emphasis in our posters.
Over the past few weeks we have been using punctuation to aid our expression when reading aloud. We worked in groups to identify and highlight all the punctuation from pages in the book – ‘The Day the Crayons Quit.’ We worked out what all the punctuation meant and we each took turns to read a section out loud. We were given 2 stars and a wish by the rest of the class and we had to work on improving our wish the following week.
Alex – We had to speak loudly if the word was in capital letters and even louder if it was underlined too.
Albie – When there is an exclamation mark it means you speak louder too.
Erin – You pause when there is a full stop and it’s only a short pause for a comma.
Fern – You are asking a question when there’s a question mark so your voice goes up.
The whole class then made a book called ‘The Day the Pencils Quit.’ We wrote a letter to Mrs Wight pretending to be a pencil that was not happy and was complaining to her. We used all the punctuation we had learned in our reading to make our pencils sound very grumpy. There were lots of different complaints from all the different coloured pencils.
Our aim was to use a variety of punctuation in our reading and we were all successful at this.
It was open hour when we were redrafting our letter so some visitors got to read them. If you visit our class everyone is more than welcome to read our completed book.
