Poetry Week Three

Why hello their awesome alliteration achievers! What great alliteration you came up with. This weeks focus is Onomatopeia's. An onomatopeia is the sound effect of poetry. It is when the word is the name of the sound. Check out this onomatopeia poem below. Then using De Bono's yellow and black hat to comment on what you thought was really good and maybe not so good about the poem?

Laundrette

Wishy, washy there's my shirt

Swirling squirming round my vest.

Splashy, dashy, two red socks

In a sandwich with the rest.

A football scaf, a bright-red hat

A pillow-slip, blue jeans, a sheet.

Oh, my goodness, what is what?

A hand, a face, a pair of feet

Someone swirling round quite bare-

How did Granny get in there?

Gareth Owen

Discovering Forces and Movement

Yesterday afternoon we had a great time just checking out a few forces at work and seeing what it means to be balanced and unbalanced. Check it out.......

Week Two Poetry

What great thoughts and feelings people had on last week's poetry. Check out this weeks Alliteration poem. Alliteration is when the words within the poem start with the same letters and sounds. We often see alliteration in tongue twisters. Read the poem below and then use De Bono's Green hat to come up with your own one.

Betty Botter by Mother Goose

Betty Botter bought some butter,but, she said, the butter’s bitter;if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter,but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter. So ’twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter

Week One Poetry

Have a read of the poem below. Then put on De Bono's red hat and comment on how the poem makes you feel and why.

WATERFALLS

The sound of water
Makes me think of waterfalls
Gushing and splashing

by Celine Goh yun yi, Singapore

School Holidays

After a huge term of Powerful learning, reading, writing, maths and so much more learning we are off for two weeks to rest our little heads.  We will be back on soon to let you know all about our knew learning and happenings in our class. Next term our powerful learning focus is Movement (for example electricity, forces, friction, etc) If you know any great websites that could help us out then please let us know.

Catch you soon.

Room 6

Our amazing learning this term.

We have done some amazing learning this term in Room 6. We investigated air, looked at how to write a procedural text, worked on our strategies in multiplication and division and raced to be millionaires in our lexile reading. Have a read of what we liked the most.

Wonderful Literacy Games

Check out this site for so great literacy games. Test your knowledge on oppsites and words with similar meanings.

http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html