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.
This is the song the whole school will be singing together. Remember you do notneed to learn the rap section of the song, just the two chorus parts (English and Maori). If they can click along to the beat for the rap that would be great.
We have been learning a new strategy in our numeracy learning where we can draw or group an array to show a multiplication fact (4 x 3) and show how it is different to another one (3 x 4) but is the same value.
Here is a video to help explain what an array is:
We chose to make a connection with our learning about the forest and use the duplication function in Explain Everything to make some forests showing our knowledge of arrays. Here are some examples of our learning:
