This week The Rising Stars have been super busy setting our learning goals and thinking about what we need to do to achieve them in preparation for our 3 way conferences next week. We are looking forward to seeing all parents and children on Tuesday 17th of May and Wednesday 18th of May at your booked time slots to discuss these goals.
Writing
In Writing we have been learning about explanations and their purpose and structure. We looked at an example of explanation writing which was called- How is food digested - which helped us to identify the different parts of an effective explanation. The purpose of an explanation is to explain how or why something happens. We also learnt that an explanation has the following things in the structure of how it is written....
1. Title: This is a short statement about the topic.
2. Definition: Defines the thing or process.
3. Description: Describes the parts or elements to the process.
4. Process: How the thing or process works.
5. Application: Application of the object, machine and process.
Reading
During Reading this week two groups had the opportunity to perform their group plays in front of the class and they did an amazing job. Sometimes getting up in front of other students and performing can be really nerve wracking.....but I was extremely proud of them all for getting up and giving it a go.
Awards
On Friday at school assembly we had several award recipients...
PRIDE Empathy Award:
Congratulations to Ofeira for always being considerate and thoughtful to others.
Duffy Award:
Congratulations to Ana for showing great effort and improvement in all curriculum areas.
100% Attendance Awards
Congratulations to Stanton, Ofa, Sasha, Dantae, Margaret, Harrieta, Ofeira and Angelina
who were at school every day in Term 1.
What an awesome blog ... full of information! Congrats to your award winners and I would have loved to have seen one of your plays performed ... Well done and good luck with 3 Way Conferences Rising Stars!
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