Term 2 Week 3 'Star of the Week'

Today we enjoyed working with our Room 4 buddies. They came to our room and helped us to write autumn poems. First we looked at a leaf and discussed ways to describe it, then we followed the same pattern as the poems we wrote earlier in the week to create a poem. It was good to have a big buddy to write down our ideas.
After morning tea we glued leaves onto long pieces of paper. Our teacher published our poems and glued them onto the paper. Come into Room 2 or Room 4 to see the finished product and read our poems. Here's a few:

I Found a Leaf

I found a leaf

It has lots of spikes

It's all red and bumpy

It's curly with dark spots

It looks like it is an unopened umbrella

By Lily and Eden

I Found a Leaf

I found a leaf

It has lots of cracks

It's all brown and purple

It has a stem with veins

It looks like it is a hand waving

By Bella, Marika, and Trinity

I Found a Leaf

I found a leaf

It has lots of veins

It's all brown and old

It's scrunchy with lots of holes

It looks like it is a hand

By Amelia and Katia

I Found a Leaf

I found a leaf

It has lots of veins

It's all green and yellow

It's bumpy with holes

It looks like it is a thumb

By Danny and Sam

The  'Star of the Week’ for Week 3 is  Benjamin.

Benjamin tries hard at all his work. He is focused and answers questions about our topics of learning.

Thank you, Benjamin, it's great to have you in our room.

This week we have been learning about questioning. We know that we ask questions to find out more information. We learnt about open and closed questions and about the difference between a question and a statement/comment. We know that good question starters are: Who, What, When, Where, Why, Which, and How.

News time is great for practising our questioning skills. It is pleasing to see the progress in the children's questioning. 

Forming questions is one of the first steps in the Inquiry Process.  We are now discussing what we know about transport and forming questions to help us find out more on this topic.

Next week we will refine our questions. The next step will be to gather information to answer these questions. Keep watching this space.

Enjoy the poems in the poetry book.

Have a relaxing weekend :)