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WALT: write a thoughtful list of things for Christmas.
WALT: Write a diamante poem using nouns, adjectives, verbs, synonyms and antonyms
Camp Bentzon Recount
WALT: write an effective recount about your experience at camp
Structure
Title
P1: Introduction: Who? When? Where? Why?
P2: What happened? Why/How?
P3: What happened next? Why/How?
P4: What happened next? Why/How?
P5: Conclusion: What happened in the end?
How did you feel about your experience at camp? What was your overall favorite part? Why would you recommend the camp to the Year 5’s for next year?
Paragraph Rubric
Fables
WALT: retell fables as plays
The Cat, The Rooster and The Mouse Story
A fable is a story with a moral or a message for the reader.
My Record of Fables and their Morals
Being a Good Friend - Explanation for Writing Sample
WALT: explain to your reader what being a good friend means
Think about friendship.
Write to explain to your reader what being a good friend means.
Think about:
* what your reader needs to know about the topic
* how you are going to introduce your ideas
* the order of your ideas and how you link them.
Remember to:
* choose your words carefully
* take care with your spelling, punctuation, and sentences
* edit – add or delete words or sentences to improve your work.
Paragraph Doctor
WALT: rework paragraphs to meet effective paragraph criteria
Diamante Poem
Camp Bentzon
Fables
Being a Good Friend
Paragraph Doctor
Sun Smart
Capitals
WALT: write an explanation telling people what capitals letters are and when you use them.
Collaborative Planning and Notes
Paragraph rubric for our 4th paragraph
Use my brain, Use my heart,
I'm going to be cybersmart!
WALT: write an explanation about use my brain, use my heart, I’m going to be cyber smart.
Punctuation
Punctuation
Punctuation Exercise - Winston
Newspaper Reporting
Newspaper Reporting
WALT: use the structure of newspaper articles to write news reports
Use my brain, Use my heart,
I'm going to be cybersmart!
Capitals
Newspapers
Main Elements of a Newspaper Article
Interview with Mrs Flavell about School Jackets
Diamond Poems
Diamond Poems
WALT: Write a diamante poem using nouns, adjectives, verbs, synonyms and antonyms
Building Site images Plan of new build
Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games
WALT: Locate and summarise information that we can clearly present to our audience about the Commonwealth Games.
We are looking at different sites to gather information.
Official Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Site
Our information is organised and planned into a cohesive piece of writing.
Each paragraph is drafted and reworked according to our paragraph rubric
Monday Questions to Investigate
Whaling
Whaling
Postcard To The Icelanders
Postcard To Greenpeace
Year 6 Writing example - how does ours compare?
Year 6 Writing example - how does ours compare?
WALT: Use our rubric to assess Year 4 and year 6 writing samples
WALT: Use our rubric to assess Year 4 and year 6 writing samples
Here is an example of year 4 and year 6 writing.
Wanted Poster describing Book Character
Wanted Poster describing Book Character
WALT: dramatically describe the character of a story.
WALT: dramatically describe the character of a story.
After listening to the teacher read a story to you use the information to create a WANTED Poster for the main character.
You will need to dramatise the events of the story to create a delicious imaginative description on the poster.
Link to Poster You will need to make a copy.
Link to Poster Requirements You will need to make sure you have read this carefully to produce a quality Wanted Poster that is detailed and delicious to read......NOT just boring and ho hum!
After filling in your writing you can change the background and theme of the poster to suit the character. Post this on your blog.
Family descriptions using a variety of simple and complex sentences
Family descriptions using a variety of simple and complex sentences
WALT: add detail to sentences ideas to form juicy complex sentences(This doesn't mean putting lots of ideas in one sentence).
Describe a sibling in a paragraph.
Describe Dad, uncle or Koro
Describe Mum/Auntie/Nan
Buoyancy
Buoyancy
WALT: record designing and testing of a buoyant raft.
We have to design a raft using 2 pieces of A4 paper, masking tape and four straws that will keep teaspoons afloat.
Link to Bill Nye's explanation about buoyancy.
Our thinking gets recorded on Educreations and the record of our learning is presented in this google presentation template.
Book Learning Conversation with the teacher.
Titanic
Titanic
WALT: write effective paragraphs using our Effective Paragraph Criteria.
In learning about different kinds of boats we have looked at the Titanic and why it sunk. Titanic Information.
We are writing a new paper report to tell the world about the this terrible disaster.
Swimming
Swimming
WALT: use our own criteria to write effective sentences.
Pt England Camp
Pt England Camp
WALT: create our own criteria for effective sentences and use these to reflect on our own and others sentences.
Look at these sentences.
Which sentences do you like? Why?
What makes a good sentence?
Vocabulary you can use for your own sentences
Pedestrian Crossings
Pedestrian Crossings
WALT: explain how and why we use a pedestrian Crossing
We have a pedestrian crossing (sometimes called a zebra crossing) out side our school.
Write to explain
*what it is,
*why we have it,
*how to use it.
Presentation to explain how to to write Explanations
Commonwealth Games
Whaling
Year 6 Writing example - Rubric to see how does ours compare?
Wanted Poster
Family descriptions
Family descriptions
Buoyancy
Titanic
Swimming
Pt England Camp
Pedestrian Crossings
Good Friends
Good Friends
We are explaining what it means to be a good friend.
This is our easttle writing sample where our teachers use easttle progressions to mark our work. This helps us work out our next learning steps.
Explanation Writing
Explanation Writing
How and Why we use our WITS
Template for writing explanation
Fair Testing
Fair Testing
13/2/14
WALT: Plan and record an investigation to find out what plants need to grow well
We are going to plan a fair test to find out
Record your science test here.
Butterfly Life Cycle
Butterfly Life Cycle
12/2/14
WALT: listen to and record sentences accurately.
Dictagloss - this is what we do
1. The teacher reads out a paragraph to us so we can listen to the meaning and the key words. The key words are recorded and discussed.
2. The teacher reads the paragraph out slowly so that we can listen to and record the sentences accurately. We have to think about the punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, vocabulary.
3. The teacher read the paragraph again so we can check we have recorded it accurately.
This is the paragraph we worked on today.
The female butterfly flies to a plant she knows her young will want to eat. She sticks the eggs to the plant with a special glue from her body. The glue protects the eggs from the heat and cold, and stops them drying out.
Planting Bean Seeds
Planting Bean Seeds
10/2/14
WALT: write clear instructions on how to plant seeds
Analyse these instructions on this template
Good Friends
Explanation Writing
How and Why we use our WITS
Recount Template
Paragraph Rubric
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