Book Reviews - Clever Crazy Club and Party Pack Reading Groups

The last week we have been practicing our summarising and retelling skills with creating a book review for other learners to learn about the series that we are currently reading.

Take a look at our reviews and see what book you might like to pick up!  If you have any feedback for us, please leave us a comment!

Haiku Poems with our Alliteration Identities

Last week we have been learning about haiku poems.

Traditional haiku are always the same, including the following features:

1. There are only three lines, totalling 17 syllables.
2. The first line is 5 syllabels.
3. The second line is 7 syllables.
4. The third line is 5 syllables like the first.
5. A haiku does not have to rhyme, in fact usually it does not rhyme at all.

Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds.  We made the connection that this is similar to our alliteration learning earlier in the term.

We also made the connection that learning about syllables is similar to the learning we have doing around building our knowledge about word attack.  We also wanted to write about our super hero or villains again.

The Way Back Home

WALHT write imaginative solutions for problems in a story.

We watched an animated video that was inspired by Oliver Jeffer's picture book called The Way Back Home. The video was paused after we were introduced to the problem of the story - the boy and the alien were both stuck on the moon because both the rocket and the spaceship were broken, oh no! Please read of our creative solutions to solve the very troubling problem. Enjoy!

Alliteration Superheros - Part One!

We decided to explore alliteration in reading this week when Mr Lewzey shared with us this book:

We decided that we wanted to become either super heroes or villains and use some alliteration to help describe our abilities and other information that we wanted to share with you.

Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think about our new identities!

Crazy Cookies Reading Group - Icebreakers!

This week our group read 'Icebreakers'.  We were learning how to imagine what the author meant by drawing images in our minds.

An icebreaker is a special ship that helps break ice to allow other ships to sail through water that would usually be difficult to travel through.

One of our follow ups was to describe how the icebreakers work in our own words, either drawing a picture or using some of the images from the text.

Here are some of our examples that we came up with:

Ivan:

Eleanor: