Today we played a game. Can you make a shape and describe it using words like parallel lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, isosceles, polygon, regular, four sides etc to describe it to your partner? Can they draw your shape?
What do you think? They used the iPad. WALT: extend sentences with adjectives, adverbs and phrases that tell where, when, what, who, how and why.
We made cake. On Saturday afternoon, just before my friend Jane came round to play with me, my mum and I baked some fairy cake for us to share. By Jodie Yesterday, when the sun just rose, my friends and I walked happily to the awesome Qing Dao YCIS to make some delicious brownies with Mrs. Ballantyne By : Annie On my birthday my family made a delicious, chocolate cake in my grandma’s house. By: Kyu Won On a Sunday morning we baked brownie cake at my friends house! By : Lorijn On Friday, a morning before Mrs. Ballantyne’s birthday, my friends and I made a delicious ice cream cake at school for this afternoon’s party. By : Albane My mum and I woke up on a Saturday morning and the first thing we did was bake a huge chocolate cake for my lovely dad. BY : CHRISTOFFER On Saturday afternoon, my friends happily made lots of delicious cake with yummy sweets under it for my mum’s fantastic birthday. BY: MINJONG On Sunday afternoon my mum and me joyfully made really yummy chocolate cakes for my sister`s birthday party. By: RACHEL On September 1st, my family and I joyfully made gigantic, 22 cm cakes with lots of cream and chocolate to eat with my big, muscular friend, when he come to play. By: David Sound effect openers:
“Roar!” the lion roared. “Ah!” The people ran away. David “Roar!” Some where there was a roaring sound. Min Jong “Roar!” I was frozen with fear. Jodie (metaphor) “Roar!” I closed my eyes and I wanted it to be an animal that was not lion or tiger. Rachel “Roar!” The lion made the ground shake. Chris Action openers: I’m sleeping on safari. Kevin One day I went to the zoo. Lisa One day a lion was hungry. Jade As the sun rose the next morning, Boggis, Bunce and Bean were still digging. Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox Sophie couldn’t sleep. Roald Dahl :BFG Talking openers: “Roar! I’m hungry!” the lion roared. Lorijn Yes! Tomorrow I am going to Africa to see animals that I haven’t seen before. Kyu Won. Yum! It’s a nice picnic. Albane “Yay!” I cried. “Tomorrow I am going on safari.” Annie Question openers "What are we going to do? The hole in the lion's cage was huge and now the cage was empty..." Mr B, Room R blog "Heroism or cowardice?" Michael Morpurgo: Private Peaceful Here are some of our story openers. We pretended we were in the picture and wrote the beginning of a narrative. Then we looked at some author's openers and discovered there are different types. We also learned a new word: onomatopoeia. These are our first tries - we are going to have another go to see if we can improve them. We worked out the digital roots for our times tables and we found some strange patterns. We don't know why, but 2x, 5x and 11x have the same pattern, and 3x, 5x and 13x have the same pattern. If we keep making them we are sure we can find some more. To find a digital root you work out the table and then add the digit in the multiples together until you get a single digit. so 5x: 1x5=5; 2x5=10 1+0=1, 3x5=15 1+5=6... so 1/5, 2/1, 3/6... Then you record the patterns on your circle. Can you help us to investigate 14x up to 21x and see if there are some more patterns the same? We will do this for homework. We have written our inquiry questions. We already know the names of many parts of our body. Now we will learn about which muscles we use when we exercise and whether repeating an exercise every day will improve our fitness. For homework we are keeping eating and activity diaries, and researching the names of our bones. We will find out which foods, and how much sleep and exercise we need to stay healthy. Do you have any tips for us? Our class comes form all over the world because we are an international school. We have students from China, Korea, Denmark, England, France, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Our teachers come from New Zealand and China. Mrs Ballantyne and Miss Lu share the class. Mrs Ballantyne teaches in English and Miss Lu teaches in Chinese so we learn two new languages. Only one person knew English before coming to our school! Everyone made a booklet researching their country: including favourite recipes, interesting facts, the coat of arms, the flag, the leaders, dangerous animals and landmarks. David Boy, sporty, friendly, baseball Brother of Sohee Lover of Korea, baseball and Relatives Who feels warm, happy and calm Who needs water, air and food Who gives money, presents and pencil Who fears ninjas, samurais and spies Who would like to see a live Tarantula, Anaconda and heaven 류희헌 Lorijn Cool awesome intimidating mysterious Brother of Victor, Bella and Fillipa Lover of cats, computer games and my brothers’ jokes Who feels scared and happy Who need something new and something big Who gives fun, love and hope Who fears Kaiju Who would like to see London Born in china Storm Jodie Generous, sporty, kind, cute Sister of Leila and Eloise Lover of my parents, my sisters and my friends Who feels calm, happy and joyful Who needs love, friends and education Who gives friendship, gifts and chocolate Who fears spiders, lions and the dark Who would like to see Paris, ride an elephant and go to Splash landings Born in Guernsey B Do you like them? We also made portraits to go with them. |
AuthorWe are a Year 5 (Grade 4) class in an international school in China. We all have English as an additional language. Our home countries are: Korea, Belgium, Denmark, China,England and our teacher is from New Zealand Archives
April 2016
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