We have been writing newspaper reports on Charlie finding the 5th golden ticket. We have looked at features of a newspaper and are using this knowledge to help us write our own stories all about Charlie. First, we planned what we were going to write in each paragraph and planned our catchy headlines. Then, we used these plans to write our newspaper reports using a template. Miss Kerr is looking forward to reading these!
We had our Sharing With Parents session last week and had great fun introducing our parents to our class novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We showed off the new reading strategies that we use to help us understand books and then we got to try some activities with them.
We had to complete character wheels on some of the characters in the novel. Then we had to complete a character study on Charlie Bucket. We also got to show how we can use the visualising strategy to draw characters from their descriptions. For this task we had to read the description of Willy Wonka and then draw what we thought he might look like. It was really fun to see our parents’ drawings as well!
Holly: Sharing with parents was really fun because all the parents got to see what we have been working on.
Murray: I liked having my mum and dad there because they could see all the work I have been doing.
Kieva: I liked it because I liked showing my mum the strategies that we use in class.
Here are some photos of or Sharing With Parents (see if you can spot yourself!):
As part of our novel study, we have been looking at the different characters in the novel. Roald Dahl introduces us to lots of interesting characters as we go along so we have made character wheels to help us follow some of the characters in the story.
We had to write short descriptions of each character under their names and then we drew pictures of what we thought they would look like.
Here are some examples of our character wheels:
The class are doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a novel study this term and are loving it! We have read half of the book so far and have just read about Augustus Gloop falling in Mr Wonka’s chocolate river. We are also watching the film as we go along and are comparing the book with the original film. Some things in the film are very similar but others are VERY different! For example, the Oompa Loompas in the book are pale skinned and have long golden hair and wear deerskins, whereas the Oompa Loompas in the film have green hair, orange skin and wear white dungarees!!!
Demi: I think it’s a great book and it shows us that we need to be grateful for everything we have and just because Charlie was poor didn’t mean his luck was any different to anyone else’s.
Ellah-Louise: It is a nice relaxing book because you can sit and imagine what’s happening in your head as you listen.
Adam: I think it is exciting because nearly every chapter has something new happening and it makes you want to read on!
On Friday 21st October, we had a ‘Wear It Pink Day’ to raise money for breast cancer awareness. October is breast cancer awareness month so we wanted to take part and support this great cause.
We loved getting to dress down for school and our class got really into the pink theme- some of us even dyed our hair pink for the day!
As part of our Australia topic we were given a homework challenge to research an Australian animal and deliver a solo talk about it to the rest of the class. We could either create a poster, Power Point presentation or book to use to show the class. Some of us were a bit nervous at first because this was our first solo talk to the whole class but we did really well! The talks were so interesting and we learned lots of interesting facts about the animals!
We each peer assessed someone else’s solo talk and the we self assessed them to see if we agreed. This was a really good way to get advice and ideas for when we do another solo talk.
Look at how confident we look in these photos:
Here is Jordan and Demi peer assessing someone’s solo talk.
Mrs Thomas spent time with us one day talking about her time living in Australia. She had lots of interesting stories to tell us and she brought along lots of photos to show us of her life in Australia. We got the chance to ask her questions about Australia and her life there. Some of us (including Miss Kerr) thought that Australia sounded amazing…until Mrs Thomas showed us a picture of a Huntsman spider she found in the bathroom one day!!!
Mrs Thomas even brought in her didgeridoo to let us have a try! This was such a great laugh but only a few people managed to get a sound from it! It must be the brass lessons that helped Emma get the best sound from it!
Thank you Mrs Thomas!!!
We really enjoyed our Australia topic last term! We especially liked learning about all the different animals that live there because they are so different to the animals we have in Scotland. We have also learned a lot about Captain James Cook who first claimed Australia for Britain over 200 years ago! We learned about the Aboriginal people and what happened to them when people from Britain and Europe moved to Australia. Did you know that the British Empire even sent prisoners to Australia because there wasn’t enough room in the British prisons?! It took them 9 months to sail from Britain to Australia!!
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