Worldvision Talks To Us About Child Labour

The whole school saw a presentation from Worldvision last week. It was highlighting the fact that not all children in the world go to school. In some places children are forced to make money to survive. School and play is not an option for these children. We saw children making fireworks in factories and collecting paper to recycle for money. The presentation involved students from our school acting out the story. The WorldVision speaker is narrating. Haven't they got on cool costumes!

Room 3 Argues For Chalk

Our writing focus this term is on persuasive language. We have written arguments to Mrs Harris, our principal, convincing her to let us use chalk outside Room 3 at lunchtime on Tuesday. This came about after an incident in the playground where we were making the wrong choices and fighting. We brainstormed the issue as a group and decided there was not enough to do if junior and senior students wanted to play together. Below are our letters trying to persuade Mrs Harris to let us use chalk.

They were obviously very persuasive because she wrote back letting us do it!!!!! In the photos above we are working co-operatively at lunch, both junior and senior students, playing with the chalk.

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Using The Camera To Write

The camera is a good way to storyboard our writing. As a class we made up a story about a dog and Miss C. Next we took the photos for each part. Then we each sequenced a set of the photos so they were in the right order to tell our own story. Finally we labelled each photo with the action. Read Salmaan's writing below.

We Can Use Similes

This week we have found similes in other authors' writing. A simile makes a picture out of words. A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare the object to something else. Similes are a good way to build pictures in the mind of the reader. We decided to write about our classmates using similes to describe what they look like, act like and love to do. What pictures have we made of us in your mind?

Sherbet

We made sherbet at school this week. We used juice powder (Raro), baking soda, icing sugar, tartaric acid and citric acid. The acid makes the fizziness when it mixes with the baking soda. This acid doesn't harm people like the acid in movies.
We put the mixture in the cutting machine (food processor) so it didn't take ages to stir. We shared the sherbet out into plastic bags. To eat it we licked the spoon and dipped it in the powder. The powder stuck to the spoon. We also had straws so we could suck up the mixture.
We used the sherbet to write an imaginative story. This is Salmaan's one.

Jin was the naughtiest student in her class. She never listened and always says "Get a grip". Today she was inside at lunchtime. She peeked into Miss Cleveland's cupboard and discovered a strange powder.
It looked like the baking powder she used to cook with.
She held it up to her nose. It smelled like a medicine.
She put her finger into it. It felt gritty.
Finally she tasted it. She said "Yum".
Suddenly she transformed into a cat.
By Salmaan