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!

Puppet Show

A visiting group of puppeteers from Australia came to perform for us. They used a type of puppetry from Japan called bunraku. In bunraku the puppets are controlled by strings. The puppeteers wear dark clothing even over their faces so they blend into the background. They retold the story of Peter and the wolf. The music used in the show was written over 100 years ago. Each piece of music was attached to a character. So as a character appeared on stage the music changed. How clever is that!!!

Making Bread

This week we have made bread. The mixture was very sticky to begin with. It is made of flour with yeast added. The yeast gives the bread air bubbles and helps it rise. The honey and water help to wake up the yeast so it can go to work making air. We kneeded the dough and shaped it into the letters of our surname.

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.

A Loud Crunch Came From Room 3!

Yesterday we followed a recipe for chocolate rice bubble cakes. We wrote about the process. You can see our writing if you click on the links below. Can you hear the crunch?

Kyle's writing

Molly's writing

Bill's writing

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?