We have been investigating the text Knockabout Cricket and decided to have a look at some influential Aboriginal Australians. Our peer tutors showed some class mates how to use a new app on the iPads called Educreations. They were able to design a presentation to share with the class on their chosen ambassador. Using their research skills and abilities to find accurate, reliable websites, the students provided us with a wealth of information on Jessica Mauboy, Cathy Freeman, Adam Goodes and Ruby Hunter . They were very mature and had exceptional organisational skills to complete their project.
Four of our students are learning the Gatthung language every Friday, which prompted us to investigate some Aboriginal terms. In the text, 'Why I Love Australia', there are a few Aboriginal terms that we explored. This created an opportunity for our students to learn about other languages and meanings. We are learning that different groups have different languages and meanings. We are going to create a class dictionary to share our learning. Once again, we had great teamwork skills on display in the lesson to show how responsible we are in 5/6J.
Why I Love AustraliaBronwyn Bancroft is an amazing author and illustrator. She has created the book, 'Why I love Australia', filled with rich language to excite the reader. The story takes us on a journey to explore different Australian landscapes. This week, 5/6J have been creating their own text to match some of the illustrations. Here is one amazing example of rich language to engage the reader: "The Great Australian Plains" Where eagles fly and ants scurry over the green, luscious grass. Calm wind blows from the north on a cool summer's day and cyan water flows from a billabong and flows down the river. You can see a fish leap gracefully from the azure coloured water. Published by Greeny. More quality work samples:
The snowy mountains looks like a coat of the whitest wall with little pops of colour around the snow. As cold as a popsicle and as sharp as blades on the top of a mountain. JB HiFi The snow that was freezing wet was surrounded by a powerful blizzard .White as sugar and tall like the majestic Eiffel Tower. Smells like wet blanket, feels like water. Snow soft as a fluffy unicorn’s fur. Smick The Frosty Mountains looks like a colossal white sheet. The Snowy Mountains tastes like icy cold water The Icy Cold Mountains feels wet, freezing and soft. The Frozen Mountains smells as plain as paper. The Snowy Mountains is terrific, luscious, luxurious,fantastic, amazing, good, spectacular, great , graceful and snowy. Tia The Snowy Mountains look like food. The snow looks like sugar and the mountains looks like spaghetti. The temperature feels like -3 but I think the ground feel as soft as a squirel. Burkey On a large landscape sits snowy white, rocky, overflowed with delight Mountains. It has a dark blue sky at night and a nice light cold aqua by morning, children full of enjoyment ready to slide down its icy cold steep hills along with luscious fluffy snow. Baker The Great Barrier Reef is humongous, bright, infinitely colourful and watery. When you’re in the Barrier Reef you feel like you’re weightless, energetic and it’s like you’re in a whole other world with all the bright colourful, fast little fish swimming all around your happy self. Schoey Children happily playing with their friends, cricket balls shooting through the sky, the trees swaying among the warm breeze, dogs running wild after the ball boys and girls all having a big game of backyard cricket, the luscious green grass breaking your fall. Perri Perry This term we are reading about a book called Wonder.
It's about a boy named August ,he has a deformed face, a tortoise mouth and a giant and miniature ear. Everyone stares at him a lot and his sister Via gets extremely frustrated. He has had a lot of surgeries to try and help fix his problems. When he first went to school in Year 5, he only had one friend - Jack Will, and he betrayed him. After that, the whole school thought that he had, "THE CHEESE TOUCH." August felt like the whole world devoured him because of the way he looked. They found it difficult to accept him into society. He had a harsh life after his Nan (Tata), passed away. |
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