Sound of the Week: Short /o/

 Optimus Prime, octopus, oregano and binoculars!

Our Orange Octopuses

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.