Today, Primary 4/5 were learning about all different types of books: Fiction, non-fiction and Comics.
We started this morning by having a ‘blether’ with our groups at our blether stations.
We were discussing our different opinions and discussing what we like and don’t like about some fiction stories.
Have a listen to one of our groups during their discussions, they become very involved.
After break, we moved on to looking at examples of comics strips and discussing how they were very short stories told in pictures, but with added detail in the speech from characters.
We looked at examples from Wallace and Gromit and Peanuts.
As a class, we decided to create our own. See some of our examples below.
This afternoon, we merged our weather topic and our reading day to talk about non-fiction books. Mr Kerr showed the class a non-fiction book about the water cycle and how its rains, just like it had been all day today. We learned about all the meteorological terms for the different stages.
Mr Kerr then along with the class created an experiment showing how water evaporates and condenses of a cold surface. You can see our experiment below.
Can you see the condensation that formed? It became heavy on the cold plastic lid and formed a rain drop.
We reinforced our learning here by labelling all the different features of the Water Cycle.
By the end of the day, the entire class agreed… books are amazing in so many ways!
