Our School Environment - Learning to Use Paragraphs

We have been learning about using paragraphs so we can write some information reports.  The important parts of a paragraph are the following:

1. Main Idea or Topic - this helps our reader understand what our paragraph is about.

2. Detail - these sentences help build on our main idea.

3. Example or Evidence - this information helps our reader make connections with the information in our paragraphs.

We decided that we wanted to try writing paragraphs to help introduce the environment of our school to a visitor.  Mr Lewzey showed us how we could publish these in a special app called ThingLink so we have been able to take photos and add our paragraphs to these.  We hope you enjoy reading them.

Ko:

Lachlan:



Hannah:



Hayley:



Tobias:



Josh:



Tyler:



John Paul:



Hudson:



Fergus:



Gabriel:



David:



Ella:



Roy:



Marawan:



Maxim:

Description Writing - Our Creature Zoo

Mr Lewzey read us the Gruffalo where we learned that the mouse was giving the other animals in the story a description of the Gruffalo.  Here is a video of the story if you have not heard it before:

We decided that we were going to create our own creature zoo where we were able to write some descriptions of creatures that we made up.  We now know that we need the following parts of a description:

• An introduction to introduce our creature.
• Characteristics to help describe our creature.
• Some information that helps us show our thoughts or feelings about our creature.

Here are our descriptions - we were able to refine these by reading them to others and checking to see if it made sense to our buddies.

We then got to create an picture of our creature to help show our readers what our descriptions could look like if they were to meet them.  Please come into the hub and see our creature zoo if you get a chance!

Lets get into writing for Term 2

Today Mr Lewzey asked us to tell him what we wanted to write about for this term.  Look at all our ideas we have written on the post it notes - we cannot wait to start exploring some of these topics!