Production is now less than 4 weeks away. You will need to learn the words to the songs you have to sing for our production. While you will have a copy of these words given to you, you can also find the words to the songs as an assignment on your blog page. The words to these songs MUST be learnt as these will not be shown for our production. Click on your assignment for this week to find the words to "The Race" and "A couple of Evil Doers'.

The year is 2015.  The government of the day wants our learning community to focus entirely on literacy and numeracy and has banned all sports in schools.

Do you agree?   Do you disagree?

You have been selected as part of a delegation to present your case to a select committee.

Select a stance and prepare your argument.  Make sure you support your argument with reasons.

Post this on your blog.

How important is sport to us as learners?  What attributes can we get through our involvement in sport and how can this link to us as a learning community?

Discuss your thoughts.

In term 1 we focussed on our Learning Community.  We have just finished revisiting Nutrition, healthy foods and how food is labelled. 

Over the next 3 weeks, you are to complete the assignment that has been assigned to your writing group. 

After completing your group assignment, you may complete the extension activity.

You may also wish to complete another groups assignment, but only after you have completed your assignment and the extension activity.

Mahy's Group

Does healthy food help us learn? 

Research and explain your reasons.

Exention:

Design a label that shows how healthy food can help us learn.

Crumpies Group

How does healthy food link to learning?  Or does it?

Choose a side and argue your point of view.

Extension

Try the Hill's Group assignment.

Hill's Group

Think about what you have learnt about healthy food, why it is important to eat healthly and what effects this may have on our general well being and learning. 

Then think about and design a label that persuades and sells healthly food as a product that will help learners learn.

Extension

Turn your label into an advertisement using any multi-media tool.

 You can use any tools you wish - you can use your homework book, you can use any multimedia tool, ie fotobabble, sketchup etc to complete this task. 

What is a rhetorical question?  Research and explain your understanding of what this means.

Extension:  Give 3 examples of rhetorical questions.  How might you use these in a persuasive piece of writing?

This week watch some advertisements on TV. 

Select a couple of advertisements and explain how they persuade us. What techniques do they use to persuade us.

Week 1:  

Wow, what a great bunch of characters. We have everything from Luke Skywalker, Little Red Riding Hood to Alice, Jedi Warriors, Harry Potter and Thompson off Tin Tin. Check us out.

This week has been book week and for our last day we all had to dress up as a book character. Our team decided on Alice in Wonderland theme. eam - so welcome to the Mad Hatter, White Rabbit (black is the new white!) and of course Alice.

This term we have been working on our writing based around 'Spooky Stories.' We have been using Alan Peat's books, 'Exciting Sentences and Skeleton Plot.' The children were give a plot outline then brainstormed their own ideas based around the plot. Then using what they had learnt through the 'exciting sentences' sessions they crafted their own 'spooky stories'. Each group then collaboratively decided on their criteria for assessing their writing and then constructed a rubric. The rubrics for each of the groups are below the excerpts below. Below are some 'excerpts' from some of the stories. You can read the full stories by clicking on the children's own blog pages. "Samantha had woken up with her family gone. She had shouted, “Mum...Dad..” Where are they? The phone had started beeping as loud as an elephant trumpet screaming in the darkness on a cool winters eve. Samantha picked up the phone, with only heavy breathing to be heard. They had hung up. She shivered as if someone was watching her." "As the never ending stone coloured fog got worse the mother tried to work out the least dangerous route home to her warm house. She decides to turn into the two way highway. Even though she feels blind, the woman quickly remembers that there is a rocky, steep hill just before the street on which her home is. The road she is driving on is deathly still. She is in the right hand lane, aka the fast lane. As she nears the cracked, rough start of the hill she moves into the left lane, aka the slow lane." "When John closes the door, he decides to call his mum’s mobile. When John called his mum, he hears a ring coming from the master bedroom. “Oh no! Mum’s left her phone at home.” John looked through the window and said, “Holy mongoose in a monster truck! It’s the scarecrow!” he was right. Something was giving John an evil look. John was totally one hundred percent horrified. Betty’s phone rings again but all John hears is some evil hysterical laughing. Will this nightmare end for John? When will his family get home? Will this be the end for John? To be continued..." Mahy Groups self assessment rubric Crumpies Group self assessment Rubric Hills Group self assessment Rubric

This term we are revisiting our narrative writing.  We have based this around Super Heroes which ties in with our production theme.

Here is an excerpt from Anjan Singh's piece:

The Impentrable Chrome.

He briskly walked along the cold, dark, deserted prison. It had been deserted many years ago. He was going to destroy it.

His cloak flew behind him as he started into a brisk jog. His devil stick started glowing a bright light as he exited the building.  His suit became much more tighter and he began to choke.  The Impentrable Chrome was what he named himself, but will he survive?  He jumped up onto the building and looked down, there was the Masked Jedi.....

Want to read more, then visit our pages to read our Super Hero stories.