UHPS Room16 2011: May 2011

This weeks recounts!

We are getting very good at writing interesting recounts about a slice of life in a personal experience. See if you can spot language features, strong verbs, feelings and thoughts and direct speech.

Dad's Birthday- By Jessie Pritchard
I woke up. I had blurry eyes. I called for my daddy. I felt dizzy in my head. The lights were on. I felt happy. I gave my dad a hug. It was my daddy's birthday today. We haven't given him his presents yet. We will give him his presents after school. I can't wait!

Ice Skating, By Monique
On Saturday me and Vasti had a freezing day, because we went Ice skating. It was as slippery as a slug. We saw ice, white-cloud boots and a DJ.
He said that there was going to be a race. So Vasti zoomed like a racing car to the ramp. She was so fast that she won!
After that we had hot chocolate and hot chips.
"Home time!" said Vasti's mum. So I went home and Vasti went home.
"Hi mum, hi dad!"
"Hi cupcake!" said dad.
"How was it? "Fun!" I said.

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Exploring Movement- Our movement immersion!

Yesterday we had an exciting afternoon. We made some interesting discoveries and asked quite a lot of questions about movement. At the same time we got to play and experiment with nine movement experiments and activities. We explored movement concepts and including gravity, friction, leverage, push and pull and flight. Here we are in our immersion learning:

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Cross country here we come!

Over the last few weeks we have started training up for our yearly Cross Country event. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings we have been training. We run a modified track around the field and down into the nature trail. It's quite muddy and reeeaaaallyyy tiring, but each time we run we are able to run a little bit further and for a little bit longer. Our training is sure to pay off in Week 5 when we run the actual track that will take us up into 'Lady Phoenix Reserve' behind the school.
Here we are training:

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This weeks writing!

This Term in Room 16 we are learning to write procedures. A procedure is an set of instructions that tells the reader how to do something. Each procedure needs to include: (success criteria)

A title
An introduction or goal
A list of equipment or ingredients
Numbered and detailed steps in order
Command verbs at the beginning of each step
A conclusion or summary
Pictures or photos

Here are some instructions from Liri and Ben. Look to see if they have included all the success criteria.

How to pack your school bag. (By Liri Jonas)

Equipment:

Bag
Book bag

Drink bottle

Lunch box

Jumper

1. Get your school bag
2. Take your drink bottle and get some water
3. Get your mum or dad to help you make your lunch
4. Put it in your school bag
5. Bring your book bag and put it into your bag
6. Get your jumper.
7. Now you are ready for school

Top tip:
Put your drink bottle into the freezer in the morning and take it out before you go to school. Your drink will be really cold!

How to make a Milo (By Ben Martin)

Equipment:
Milo
Kettle
Cup
Boiling water
Milk

1. Get a cup
2. Get a milo tin
3. Put a teaspoon of milo in the cup
4. Get the kettle and carefully tip some boiling water into the cup
5. Stir well. Try not to spill it
6. Add some milk
7. Have it normal or get 3-4 marshmellows and put them in
8. You're all done! Ready to drink!

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The Circus comes to UHPS!

Today we had a fantastic day! We raced to the hall on a very wet day, and met the the "Circus Challenge" team. We learnt how to use some cool circus equipment and also learnt some really cool tricks too! After morning tea we went back to the classroom and recorded our scientific discoveries and wonderings about movement in relation to our circus routines. It was a really cool learning experience!!

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Measuring me!

This Term we have started our Maths learning by measuring me!
We have explored why it is important to have a standard unit for measuring length. We have measure using non standard units and we have also been estimating and measuring using centimetres. metres and millimetres. Here are some photos showing us measuring length.