Water Water Everywhere!

We concluded our hard work on slowing down the action in the main event today with an 'all by myself' piece of writing. Ask your child how they made their piece of work interesting with dialogue, action, variety of sentence beginnings etc. We are all ready and looking forward to looking at fractured fairy tales and writing our own version! We are ready!!

In science we have been looking at classification, mainly using the observable characteristics that the scientists used long ago when they decided to organize them. We have studied why we tend to write the class of animals in the order:

fish, amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal

Ask me if I can explain some of the reasons.

 These are created creatures that had to follow the characteristics of that class of animal. so, if it was a reptile it had to be cold blooded, lay eggs etc.

 These are 'I can' statements we have covered:

 This was what we found out as we researched each class of animal:

We have started to look at life-cyles. We chose the very relevant lifecycle of the mosquito! This parasite will lead us nicely into other parasites that live in water in part of their lifecycle. This will allow for a cross curricular study of water through the lens of health, social studies and science. We will then look at various charities and relief organizations. So, if anything related comes up in conversation, that would help your child gain some more background knowledge ...

Housekeeping:

We are starting to organize the school yearbook so know that all students will be included unless I get specific notification, either by email or in a written letter.