LITERACY WEEK Term 4 Year 2016

What? 

This week was literacy week. I did the scavenger hunt with Maxim. Year's 3 - 8 went to the hall to see Soraya Nicholas - visiting author. There was also the dress up day on Thursday.

So What?

My favourite part of literacy week was the dress up day.

Now What?

I want to put more effort into my costume for next literacy week.

future school design JACK

our design

our design

Vocabulary Week 8 Term 3

WHAT?

I am learning to develop my skills about Idioms.

SO WHAT?

I have learnt about Idioms such as kicked the bucket means died.

NOW WHAT?

I want to improve on my Idioms skills so I  know what Idiom means.

swimming at starfish term 3

WHAT?

2 weeks ago rooms 5,6,10,11 and 24 went swimming at starfish.

SO WHAT?

I've learnt more about breathstroke and a bit about butterfly.

NOW WHAT?

I feel that i am doing really well in my swimming.

Word study Term 3 2016

Word Study - Blog 1 term 3

What?

I am learning to understand how words are formed using roots, prefixes and suffixes.

So What?

I have learned that words that have the root hydra- and aqua- mean water. For example, aquamarine is the colour of the ocean.

I have learned that words that have the root spect- mean look / see. For example look at the spectacular sun shining.

Now what?

I feel that I have an excellent understanding of the root words aqua-, hydra-, and spect-

IALT: develop my reading comprehension skills

Recently I took an asTTle reading test. I read a number of texts and answered a range of questions to check my understanding and comprehension. The aim is to take a test at a level where I will make some errors so that I can identify what I need to work on to be a more successful reader.

I have looked at the results of my test and identified 3 goals for this term.

My reading goals are:

[1] Consistently read to understand the meaning of a text

[2] Make a conclusion or an assumption

[3] Know what different words mean

# 1 and 2 are about understanding the text, especially by thinking about the text more ‘deeply’.

# 3 is about developing my vocabulary and being able to use the information around a difficult word to make sense of it.

You can help me with [1] and [2] by asking me about the book I am reading at home;

• about the characters, setting, plot and resolution (fiction)
• Get me to explain why I believe the characters have acted in certain ways and how this influences the plot and outcome of the story
• Ask me to make a conclusion about different aspects of the story and encourage me to make assumptions about characters, events, moods and what might have happened in the text if the character [s] acted, behaved, made different choices.

You can help me with [3] by;

• encouraging me to explain in my own words what I think a word means
• helping me to identify parts of a word that might help explain its meaning (e.g., in submarine the ‘sub’ means under so that will help with making an educated guess about the meaning of the word
• encourage me to come up with words that have a similar meaning, or look in a thesaurus for words with similar (synonyms) and opposite meanings (antonyms).

Week 1, term 2 blog

My Writing Goals for term 2

IALT: Improve my writing by learning how to:

* organise my writing into paragraphs

* use a variety of sentence starters

* use the correct language features of a narrative - dialogue

Use a variety of sentence starters

To help me with this goal I am using a 'Sentence Starter Menu'

It will help my writing to be more interesting and to hook the reader in more.