LI : To vary our sentence lengths to create pace and inpact
This Week For Reading , Our Challenge was to write a letter , made my Bruno , to deliever to his grandmother .
Me and my Partner used some compound sentences , to make it look good and sound great .
A Compound sentence is a sentence that is joined from one idea , to another .
We also used FANBOYS (FOR , AND , NOR , BUT, OR , YET , SO ), to make the letter sound like it was actually from Bruno .
LI: To write a narrative from the point of view of a baby owl on its fist flight
Mrs Anderson read us the book ‘First Flight’ by June Crebbin. We talked about the narrators point of view and used a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what the story might look like when told in the first person.
“As the sun dipped below the hills, the breeze began to shake the trees. Tonight, I was finally getting prepared for my very first flight with Mum, even though my legs were swaying just as much as the branches.” I am still excited for my flight. I can see all my owl friends zooming in the sky. Well, birds peek at the tree beside me as it sounds like a clock ticking.
My heart beat racing as fast as a car.As the wind passed by like a grave stone on top of my body. “Suddenly, the wind pushed me, and my heavy wings wouldn’t open!” as I’m falling i began to panic as my wings would not spread then my Mum came and caught Me as I almost hit the ground. And flew me back to the tree where I tried to fly again and as I prepared for my second try.
I took deep breaths and my heart beat began to cool down as if I was drinking a nice refreshing drink. And then I jumped and my wings spread like if I was going for a big hug. The world looks so beautiful I can see everything. The trees move with the wind as a nice cool breeze hits my face. I knew that I could fly. I found out that if I believed in myself I could do it. I couldn’t have done this without my mother’s help and all I had to do was just be brave.
LI: To write a narrative from the point of view of a baby owl on its fist flight
Mrs Anderson read us the book ‘First Flight’ by June Crebbin. We talked about the narrators point of view and used a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what the story might look like when told in the first person.
“As the sun dipped below the hills, the breeze began to shake the trees. Tonight, I was finally getting prepared for my very first flight with Mum, even though my legs were swaying just as much as the branches.” I am still excited for my flight. I can see all my owl friends zooming in the sky. Well, birds peek at the tree beside me as it sounds like a clock ticking.
My heart beat racing as fast as a car.As the wind passed by like a grave stone on top of my body. “Suddenly, the wind pushed me, and my heavy wings wouldn’t open!” as I’m falling i began to panic as my wings would not spread then my Mum came and caught Me as I almost hit the ground. And flew me back to the tree where I tried to fly again and as I prepared for my second try.
I took deep breaths and my heart beat began to cool down as if I was drinking a nice refreshing drink. And then I jumped and my wings spread like if I was going for a big hug. The world looks so beautiful I can see everything. The trees move with the wind as a nice cool breeze hits my face. I knew that I could fly. I found out that if I believed in myself I could do it. I couldn’t have done this without my mother’s help and all I had to do was just be brave.
LI: To write a description of life with the Frank family in the annex in 1942
By 1942, the world outside had turned into a nightmare. We lived under the thumb of German decrees, trapped by a hatred we couldn’t escape. The rules were simple and deadly: if we were caught out past 8:00 PM, it was over—either a one-way trip to a camp or a bullet on the spot. We had one choice: vanish into the Annex or face the end.
Most families didn’t have a choice, but we did. I watched as Anne’s father, Otto, transformed a simple bookcase into a gateway to our hidden world. Inside, the air felt heavy. The wallpaper was peeling and jaundiced from the sun, and the stairs were so steep they felt like a mountain climb every day.
Life was measured in rations. We’d get a single can of food meant to last a month; you either learned the discipline of hunger or you starved before the next shipment arrived. When the Van Pels family moved in, things got crowded. Anne initially found their son, Peter, unremarkable, but as the months turned into years, I saw something shift between them. I watched them slip away to the attic, finding a sliver of peace in their first kiss.
There were rare moments of luck, too. I remember the day we were gifted 24 crates of strawberries from an auction. For a moment, the smell of fresh fruit masked the scent of dust and fear.
I stood by Anne in the attic when she looked out at that massive chestnut tree. It was 170 years old, reaching toward a sky we weren’t allowed to touch. She wrote about it three times—the last entry being May 13, 1944. That tree still stands today, a beautiful witness to what we lost.
The end didn’t come with a bang, but with the sound of a door being forced. We were in the kitchen, still tasting the sweetness of those strawberries, when the Germans broke in. We scrambled for the bookcase, desperate to trigger the secret latch, but it wouldn’t budge. It failed us when we needed it most.
As the soldiers gripped our arms to drag us out, Anne reached back one last time, snatching her diary from the table. We were thrown onto trucks, then packed into trains, watching the Annex disappear. Once we arrived at the camps, the world went dark. We were never seen again.
We are reading the book ‘Diary of Anne Frank’. Mrs Anderson created a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what life would have been like in the annex, what we felt and why we felt that way. I enjoyed using the Gem because it helped me improve my story about The Anne Family , how life was like in it , and it helped me use strong words , in the story . It gives hints for you , if you are stuck , or don’t know what to write .
LI: To create a procedural text to tell someone how to do something using a sequence of steps, instructions or actions in a particular order.
Our challenge was to work in our dinosaur research pairs create a prototype of our dinosaur’s skeleton. The challenge was to make teh skeleton of our dinosaur and record the steps we followed. Once we had our first prototype we revised and adapted both the prototype and the instructionsWe used the language features found in a procedural text to help us write clear instructions so that another pair could follow our instructions and create our prototype. I think this activity was fun because we got to use paper irl like it was a arts and crafts thing .
This Week For My Film Review , I had to write about the rating of my favorite movie and what happens in the movie and If I would recommened the movei to diffrent age levels. I chose to write about The Words We Carry By Roscommon School Because the movie was sad in the beggining , But at the end the movie got better By Fixing the past mistakes. There was A lot of Students in the movie that were being mean to the nice and ordinary kid that is nice and sad that the kids in his class think he is dirty minded. After The Nice Kid went outside , He decided to go on a walk at the park. But Later At The Park , There was a nice kid going around the park and giving kids that felt sad because they got called mean some red notes that said Im Loved. That’s why I loved the movie , Because it starts of sad , But Later on , It Get’s happy and awsome. I definetly recommened this movie to Ages 5- 15 plus because It Teaches them that if they are getting bullied, There is always help coming and on the way for them .
I need to improve on watching the movie and writing more description about the movie to convince people to watch athe movie and always know that there is always help later on .
I enjoyed when we had to write about one of our favorite movies and give the movie a rating .
I did well at choosing my favorite movie and writing about it .
This Week For Writing , We had to chose ether A Google Docs To Do our Writing on , Or Pixton . Some People choose Google Docs and the others chose Pixton . Pixton is really fun to do your writing on . You can create your own characters and stories and even write about it . I don’t know why the others chose Google Docs Instead of Pixton. But Anyways , Here is My story That I made on pixton . You’d Have to copy the url and paste it into your seach bar . Here’s The Link : https://share.pixton.com/q1lcmze
That is my pixton link if you want to read My Story . Here is a link for pixton to sign up or login .
https://www.pixton.com/welcome
I need to improve on Doing More work On Pixton about My story .
I enjoyed when we had to write some stuff on Pixton and we’d get to make our own characters.
I did well at doing my work and trying my best .h
This Week For Writing we started our plan and blurb for our narrative stories. Here is my plan and brainstorm.
Throughout this year, our Writing group has learnt different aspects of writing a narrative story. This week’s task was to “finish” 6 stories we chose out of the slides Miss Tele’a provided. My favourite ending I wrote was for the story Callum’s Gaming Day, because it was a day for Callum to have fun and play games all day . I did well at writing cool endings for my stories. I need to improve on thinking of some more endings and ideas. I enjoyed writing endings for some stories and making them interesting.
In LS1, this term was full of exciting things like Swimming, Art , Writing & Maths.
Thinking back on the last few months, I’m so happy about All of our work that we did which was fun to do. Like Kahoot for Writing.
I’ve been busy with all sorts of subjects, but the best part about Term 3 for me was Inquiry. I liked The Science experiments but the sad thing is that we can’t do them anymore.
When it comes to reading, my favourite text I read was Bok Choy. I most enjoyed Epic books in reading.
Writing was super fun, especially when I got to the narrative part to write in.
My favourite task in writing this term was The Kahoot because We got to answer every quiz that we knew the answer to for fun.
In Maths, I especially enjoyed when we learnt about Pencil code because We’d get to create shapes, Take pictures of them and create the best things of all.
For our special Inquiry experiments, I really enjoyed The melting ice and the Dancing Raisins. Because It looked like they were having a party in the jug but in reality, They are just dancing.
In P.E. (Physical Education), I had a blast participating in Football because It was so fun to kick the ball around and do some kicks and play football with Coach Francis. I liked the part when he told us he was a real soccer player a long times ago.He even showed us his shirt.
I learnt how to do high kicks, And most of all I learned how to be a good sportsmanship.
But you know what? I also found some areas where I can get even better. Like in reading About the read aloud Slides.
While I loved writing, I’ve noticed I need to work on My Persuasive speech and do some more thinking on writing.
Maths was interesting, but I want to get better at fractions.
In our special projects, I realised I need to work on Doing Teamwork and actually be really helpful.
In P.E., I think I could improve, especially in Football .
Looking forward to the next term, I’m excited about Art, Kahoot and Writing.
To sum it up, this term was really fun, and I’m thankful for All the fun stuff we did in term 3 like the dot art.
Thinking about what I liked and what I can improve helps me understand How to be better at helping others.
I can’t wait to see what the next term brings, and I’m ready to Learn better. Here is what our old memories look like at the pools. I’s especially looking forward for Prizegiving, Athaletics, The Film Festabal and Cross country. I need to improve on doing some more work to do some more awsome fun activities. I enjoyed whe we had to write a lot of stuff about what we liked this term. I did well at trying my best on doing some aswome fun things.
