Good authors have a talent in creating a picture in the reader’s mind using descriptive language. When writing, take the time to describe the setting and scenes properly. Don’t TELL your reader everything, SHOW them through your vocabulary. Rather than saying – It was raining heavily. Write – Heavy droplets pounded against the window pane as the…
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Earlier this year 5/6J had to create a magazine article on a crazy invention. They had to write an informative text on either a blimp, penny farthing, dynsasphere or segway. Their page had to include a timeline and a table. You can click this link to read the criteria for the Inventions Task. Once finished their…
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Leave a comment about this image! Write a short narrative in ‘5 lines’ for 5 line writing based on this image. Then go to the this post to click the links to look up different types of boats and storms.
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Boats are an ancient form of transport, existing long before cars, trains and bikes. But there are so many different types of boats! How many do you know? Here is some photos taken by Miss B and of Miss B on boats around the world. Miss B has even…
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This term 5/6J read J.A White’s novel “The Thickety”. We LOVED it. Definitely our favourite book of 2014. At the end of term 5/6J had to select some homework tasks based on the novel. Here were the tasks that the students could chose from: Below is a gallery of some of the students’ awesome work! It…
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LEARNING INTENTION: To use literary devices so our narratives and poems are more entertaining. We all love narratives. And what makes a good narrative? LITERARY DEVICES. What? What are they? You already know many. Things like similes, personification, metaphor, alliteration and onomatopoeia. If you are not sure what they are (or have forgotten) click the…
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“The Snoozatron” The snoozatron is a device invented by Wallace, from ‘Wallace and Gromit’. Wallace made this device to help him get to sleep. It is a series of machines that helps him count sheep. When Wallace pulls a lever, a loud bell rings in Gromits room, this causes him to wake up as…
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We have been reading a lot about what it was like to live on the Gold Fields for the diggers, the women, the children, the Chinese and the policemen. It sounds like the food wasn’t very pleasant and you would have been very dirty! Though we all agreed that finding a large nugget of gold…
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Last Week, 5/ 6J read “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales” by Jon Scieszka. We especially liked “The Stinky Cheese Man”, but also liked “The Princess and the Bowling Ball”, “Jack’s Bean Problem” and “Cinderumplestilkskin”. We have had many discussions about the book and the characters and the idea of Fractured Fairy…
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For the last couple of weeks 5/6J have been reading, studying, discussing, pondering, theorising and writing about “The Watertower” and its sequel “Beneath the Surface”, written by Gary Crew and Illustrated by Steve Woolman. We spent hours analysing the illustrations, searching for clues, trying to piece together the story… What happened to Spike and Bubba?…
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