Our Teddy Bears Porridge Picnic

To celebrate our Talk For Writing text "The Magic Porridge Pot" we made porridge on Friday and ate it with our favourite teddy! This week we will be writing a procedure to wrap up this unit of work. We have had a great time learning the story, changing it, writing it and using the story to promote our non-fiction writing.

Toys R Us

To distinguish between the terms past and present, we were asked to bring in a toy from home. On Thursday we sorted out our toys into two groups past and present; we then talked about how some of our toys fall into both categories like our dolls and Darth Vader. We used a Venn Diagram to sort our toys and then compared the toys based on their features. Our toys from the present had many similarities such as: what they were made of, their special features (sound and light) and the need for batteries to make them work. We also talked about the toys differences and pondered what toys from the future may look like.

Thank you all for remembering to bring in a toy- it was a great sharing activity!

Disco Fever

 Thank you to our wonderful P&C for organising the school disco yesterday. We had a ball dancing the afternoon away. The video below reveals just how much fun we had. 

Capacity

This week we have been comparing the capacity of different containers. We filled up the different containers with water and wrote down how many cups they hold. We then compared the containers by ordering them in sequence from the containers that hold the most, to the containers that hold the least. We have had a lot of fun measuring and learning all about capacity with Mrs Duffy and Ms Davis.

What's Cooking?

The Magic Porridge Pot

 This term our Talk For Writing text is The Magic Porridge Pot. We have orally recited the story many times and are now able to imitate it confidently. 

The Hook

 One day, early this term a magic pot appeared in our room. Where did it come from? Who put it there? Does it's magic work? These were just some of the inquisitive questions that were asked.

The pots illuminating lights led us to believe it may have some magical powers. We also found an old porridge tin next to it. We were a little confused by what we discovered but then we found a note which read "Dear Room 6, Look in your trays and see if you can piece the puzzle together." Our questions were answered when we found words in our trays. We worked together as a class to put the words in order to see what it spelt out. They spelt out "The Magic Porridge Pot". That's how all the fun began!

Over the past week we have been innovating our story. We have created our own text Jake and the Magic Pasta Pot. This is a must watch!

Now that we have innovated our text we will be writing the story over the next couple of weeks!

Watch this space- some fabulous writing to come.