A5 Scientists

A5 SUPER SCIENTISTS

We loved visiting the Science Lab on Monday. A MASSIVE thank you to Mr Hewitt for having us in your lab and for sharing your scientific knowledge. We used mircroscopes to explore what cannot be seen with the eye. We saw the detail in our hair and the cells in our cheeks. We had no idea those cheek cells were even there! God is amazing in the way He created us with so much detail!

 

February Calendar Challenge

Our first Calendar Challenge for the year! The animal for February was a Brown Pelican. The brown pelican can be found on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts. On the Atlantic Coast, it can be found from North Carolina south to Venezuela. On the Pacific Coast, its range stretches from Southern California to Chile. After nesting season, it can be found as far north as British Columbia and Nova Scotia.

Sadly, due to a low resolution glitch on the ipad, only some of our photos did not come out :( Our big group photo was one of the ones that we lost, but here are a few of our entries. For the first challenge, the quality was pretty amazing! It was a real treat to have Aadhya from A5 2019 as a guest entrant. She created the clever 3D entry below.

 

Sentences

WRITING

We are learning about what makes a sentence, so we know where our sentence starts and use a captial letter, and where our sentence ends and use one of the 3 full stop brothers (. ! ?).

A sentence has a who and a do. We can stretch a sentence by adding when, where or how.

Today we wrote a sentence about what we would eat for a midnight snack! We stretched our sentence and realised we could move the 'when', 'where' and 'how' to different places within the sentence. It was fun moving ourselves around in our sentence. We just had to watch that if we moved one part of the sentence to the front, we had to give the first word a capital. We chose the order that made the most sense and that we liked the sound of the most. Here it is below. Mila (who was in charge of the full stop), your midnight snack sounds very sneaky! Looking forward to reading the finished stories A5!

A5 Superheroes for 2020

We were finally all united back today. 

What a team!

We love! We learn!
Everyone, everywhere, all the time!

Sound of the Week: short i

VOWELS ARE VERY SPECIAL LETTERS!

 

 ink, insects and an instrument

  

Our Big Book this week is called 'The Icky Sticky Trap'. It is a story about subtraction. This is a word we didn't know the meaning of this morning. We are going to use the story as a way to figure out what it means. We did figure out that 'an icky sticky trap' is another way of saying 'a web'. Here is an AMAZING video of one of God's creations making an equally AMAZING creation itself!

Who would have thought insects could be so delicious!

We made insects. We made sure we made them with three body parts; a head, a thorax and a abdomen. We added 6 legs and a pair of antennae. Then we labeled our 3D model.

Value Heroes

Congratulations A5 on collectively adding value to our class at least 400 times last week! With 400 points we earnt a 350+ point award. We love this reward because it is a soft toy at school for a day, or as we like to call them 'our softies'.

Here we are with our softies. They love to learn with us and we love to learn with them!

We love Greedy Cat!

Sound of the Week: Short a

VOWELS ARE VERY SPECIAL LETTERS!

apple, animal, Abigail and ants

Creative Learner

Check out this creative superhero! Mikaylah made her own clipboard and designed her own way of learning last week's memory verse. 

Love it!!!!

Vowels are very important and super clever

Vowels are very important and also very clever!

SYLLABLES

SYLLABLES

We are learning to identify, isolate and even delete syllables to help us sound out words when we are writing. It will also help us with our reading.

Every word has at least one syllable. Every syllable has one vowel sound. Isabelle, Abigail and Sione are doing a great job of working together to sort the words into the number of syllables they have.

This word must have three syllables. I can see three playing cards. One for each syllable.

This word must have four syllables. I can see four playing cards. One for each syllable.

Sione is drumming the number of beats (syllables) his word has. Isabelle is clapping the beats. Abigail is about to put down a playing card for each beat (syllable) in the word.

WE LOVE, WE LEARN!

In A5 we help each other! That's what superheroes do. 

We are learning that as well as getting help from adults, we can help each other too! Edrei you are doing an awesome job. Well done James for asking for help. That's what superheroes do!