Since starting Primary 4 we have been reading the novel ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons.’ The story has been very enjoyable and each day we are eager to find out what happens next.

“When we were reading the book we imagined we were holding a dragon in our hands because that is the size of Flicker.”

We have been completing a range of Literacy activities based on the book including predicting, sequencing, letter writing and today we started writing the first draft of a fact file about dragons.

We learned some facts about dragons as a whole class and then we independently completed our own research about dragons using the Chromebooks. We wrote down lots of interesting information about dragons and used this to begin writing our fact files.

Here are some of the facts we have learned:

“I found out that dragons can run up to 35mph.”

“Baby dragons are sometimes called hatchlings or dragonet.”

“I found out that they drink salt water.”

“The Emperor of China thought the Chinese Dragon was an important symbol.”

“The Eastern Dragon comes from Korea, China, Japan and Indonesia.”

“The Chinese dragon is also known as the long or loong.”

“The Eastern Dragon controlled some rivers.”

“It is believed that they make thunderstorms and lightning and they live at the bottom of the sea.”

“Eastern Dragons didn’t have wings, they relied on their magical powers.”

We have completed the first draft of our fact files and will begin to work on our finished piece next week. We will think about adding pictures and images to our fact file and consider the best way to display the information.

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been settling into our new classroom and have been focusing on building relationships and establishing rules and routines.

To support us with this we have completed some group challenges where we had to work as a team to solve a problem.

First up was our cup challenge!

We had to create different structures with the plastic cups but we could only move the cups using one finger each.

“We had to do really tricky things with our fingers because one person had to put one finger on one side and the other person had to put their finger on the other side.”

“It was really hard to try and turn the cups upside down.”

“It was hard to balance the cups on top of each other.”

“Sometimes people were knocking down the cups which made it more difficult.”

   

    

Next up was the Kapla challenge! We had to make a marble run using only Kapla. We designed our marble runs first which made us think about the slope we created for speed along with how easily  the marble could move throughout the run.

“It was tricky the first time we made the turn but then our team figured it out.”

“It was tricky to try and make speed so it could get around the track.”

“We found it hard to make it stop hitting the walls.”

“We found it hard but we ended up completing it.”

    

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