Pikelets

- on Friday we made pikelets with isaac's mum called heather.It was fun.

By Gracie and Lulu



Posted Miss D

The Giant Robot

The Giant Robot

What did the Pirates see?

What did the pirates see?

What did the Pirates See?

Simile Writing

This week we have been writing simile
We published our favourite piece of writing and put it up onto our writing chart

Come and read our stories 

Simile Writing

- Posted Miss D

Rainbow Simile

As red as blood
As orange as tangerine
As yellow as honey
As green as leaves
As blue as the sky
As purple as grape


By James A, Nicola, Isla, Brooklyn A

Rainbow Simile

As red as a strawberry
As orange as an apricot
As yellow as a lemon
As green as a kiwifruit
As blue as the waves
As purple as iris

By Summer, Eliott, Emilia, Alfie, Gracie, Lachlan

Rainbow Similes

As red as a rose,
As orange as a pumpkin,
As yellow as the Sun.
As green as grass,
As blue as the ocean,
As purple as a plum
As pink as a marshmellow

By Olly, Luke, Devon, Lucy-Rose and Ocean 

White thinking hats

We are learning to recall facts.

We shared what we could remember about goldfish from yesterday. miss D had to do some upside down writing so we could read our facts.





Look at our goldfish faces


- Posted Miss D

Using our white hat

We are using our white hat to share some facts that the dragonflies learnt about rain forests.


Rain forests are dark and wet and there is not much light - Summer

Some of the leaves climb up the plants so that they can get all the sunlight they need - Lucy-Rose

Panthers live there. The forest floor is very dark. Thousands of animals make the rainforest their home.  - Isla

Trees grow together - Brooklyn A

Some trees grow up to the very top.  - Brooklyn B

Simile Writing

Using simile... | Create Infographics

Goldfish

We are using our white thinking hats to find out able goldfish

They can't survive in salty water - Luke
They have gills - Emilia
They can be black or orange - Eliott
You can put water snails in a goldfish tank to help keep the water clean  - Luke
They need fresh water - Hugo

The Baby Dragon

Today for writing we are looking at this picture

Miss Dippie asked us where it came from:

A dangerous place - Isla
A cave in a cliff in America - James A
A cave, in the desert in China - Brooklyn A
The Netherlands, underground- Alfie
Australia - Gracie
South America - Eliott
It was born in the olden days - Summer
Africa - Lachlan


Why is it so small?

It's a baby - James A and James L
Because is meant to be small because it is a small dragon - Isla
Some magic got on him so he turned small - Nicola
It has just been born. It came from an egg - Summer
It is just a toy -Gracie


We had some interesting questions

Is a dragon a mammal?
Is it real?



We are going to write about the dragon and share our writing with you later today.

Skipper

Today we wrote about our class penguin Skipper.

We were learning to use simile to make our description more interesting


Skipper has a black and white body.  His beak is as yellow as the sun.
- Lachlan


Skipper is our class penguin.  He is black and white with an orange beak which is an orange as an apricot  He is as cuddly as rabbit.
-Orla

Skipper is a penguin  He has black feathers all over him and he has an orange beak  He is as soft as a feather.
-Alfie

Skipper's feather are as black as night. His beak is as orange as a carrot.
- Isla

Skipper has eyes that are as black as a sultana.  His beak is as pointy as a triangle.  His neck doesn't have much stuffing because he has been hugged to much.
- Brooklyn A

Who helps us at Sumner School?

This term for our inquiry we are learning about who helps us and how we say thank you.

We wrote about some of the people and how we think they help us.


Mr Cameron is our principal.  He is nice principal because he works out all the problems in the school like if the pipes are blocked.  He is also my best buddy and he cancels his own plans to help us.
By James A


Trevor is our caretaker. He tidies the gutters and fixes the lights.  Trevor helps me by getting balls down from trees.  I love Trevor.

By Alfie


Imogen is one of our head students.  I like it when she helps with assembly.  She is pretty and kind.  She helps us in the playground

By Gracie


Trevor is our caretaker  and Trevor mows the lawn on the field.  He picks up any rubbish in the school.  Trevor helps us find lost toys.

By Devon

Mr Cameron is our principal .  He is handsome and good at fixing problems.  He pays a lot of bills and writes forms.  He works and works.  He is amazing.

By Emilia. 

Asking Questions

We are learning to ask questions about what we are reading especially about non fiction texts.

We are learning to ask questions using 

what?

when?

where?

why?

who? 

how?

which? 

Here are some of our questions from our Brown Bear non fiction text today.

When do Brown Bears sleep?
Where do they sleep when they hibernate?
What do Brown Bears eat?

Athletics practice

Today we practiced long distance running and sprints.
We had lots of fun.













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imagine a place

Imagine place where boats brick houses on top with tall trees.  The boats are whooshing to Australia

By Orla

Imagine a Place

Imagine a place when a fence is a boat.   If a house is near the water,  the water would take a picture of the houses.

By James L 

Imagine a place

Imagine a place where you house is flowing through the ways and it is normally time to be brave.

James A 

Imagine a place

Imagine a place were houses on boats drift to a water playground. and others go to a park when the ocean is frozen. 

By Nicola 

Imagine a place

Imagine a place were there were are red brick houses on boats. Sometimes they float away.

By Isla

Imagine a place

Imagine a place.... the place has two boats that look like castles

By Eliott 

Imagine a place

Imagine a place where house run down into the water.
Imagine a place where the water was glass.
People are surfing on the glass.


By Alfie

Imagine a place

Imagine a place that looks like a castle.  It has lots of house drifting out to the waves
It is beautiful.  It is like a dream.

By Emilia 

Imagine a place

Imagine a place across the sea where the sky is dark on one side.  The sea is like blue glass.

By Summer 

imagine a place

Imagine a place that has boats with homes on them.  You can drift anywhere.

By Lachlan

Imagine a place

Imagine a place with lots of snazzy buildings.  The buildings look like castles in the sky blue water.

By Gracie 

Imagine a Place

Imagine a place where houses are on boats out in the sea.  People are scuba diving.

By Brooklyn B

Imagine a Place

Imagine a place where the houses are like boats that look like leaves.
The houses on the land have fences that look like boats.

By Ocean 

imagine a place

Imagine a place with boat houses on the sea, going away somewhere else.

By Luke 

Imagine a place

Imagine a place a when houses were on boats in the sea, made out of bricks, drifting in the sea

By Olly 

imagine a place

Imagine a place where houses can drift in the water, made out of bricks.

By Lucy-Rose 

imagine a place

Imagine a place where there were house boats and the house boats were on the sea and people were helping the houseboats swim.


By Devon 

Hippos

Wow look at all the information we now know about hippos.




- Posted Miss D

Hippos

Today the butterflies were reading about hippos.
We wrote our prior knowledge in black before we read and  added after we read in blue.
We got to write onto our new whiteboard jellybean table