We have been learning how to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction books. Non-fiction books contain true information and often have photographs or diagrams rather than illustrations and drawings. Non-fiction books often have a Contents and Index page too. Fiction books contain ‘made up’ and imagined stories, and narratives have at least one story problem that needs resolving by the end of the story. Fiction narratives also contain characters, at least one story setting and lots of events. We read the fiction book Huff and Puff and made event ladders of the story events. The beginning events are at the beginning of the ladder and as you climb the ladder you get more story events in order.
Category Archives: Literacy
Showbags at the Royal Adelaide Show
We have been talking about the Royal Adelaide Show. We looked at the show website and how to make a show bag wish list. It was great to see what you could get in each bag. We saw how much the bags cost and what the real value of the bags were. Some bags cost $25 but were worth between $60 and $85 so they were great value for money if they were something we wanted.
Royal Adelaide Show
Magic ‘e’ posters
Magic ‘e’
In phonics we have been learning about the Magic e or silent e, which lengthens the preceding vowel sound when it comes at the end of a word. This week’s spelling words are the a-e words and next week we will do the i-e words followed by the o-e and u-e words (all Magic ‘e’ words). The Magic ‘e’ changes the short vowel (letter sounds) into the long vowels (letter names).
Term 3 News/Sharing topics
Winter Words
In English we have been talking about winter words with the focus on words that are nouns. Nouns are naming words – at this level, the names of any person, place, animal or thing. We then differentiated Proper Nouns as being the names of people and places and so they must have capital letters. Our Winter pictures have labels which are nouns.
Sounds
In Science we have been learning about sound – how sound waves are a vibration and travel through air, water and solids. We also learned about how sound waves look for high sounds and low sounds. In English we discussed ‘sound’ words (onomatopoeia) and made a short story or sentence to match our sound picture.
Week 8 Sharing
Ladybirds
In Reading we have been reading a big non-fiction book about Ladybirds. We were interested because we are finding lots of ladybirds at school – so we have been looking at their life cycle, their predators and their habitat. Some Reading comprehension work has focused around ladybirds and one section asked the children to draw a specific picture and add labels.
Time – How long do things take?
Two vowels together
In phonics we are learning about the ‘oa’ words ready for our visit to the Road Safety Centre. We looked at the You Tube ‘When 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking.’
Vowels and consonants
To help us learn the vowels we use this vowel rap/song. Y is a semi-vowel and all the other alphabet letters are consonants.
‘Whistleless Recounts
A Recount is a genre in English Writing that is part of the Year One curriculum. It must have an introduction (that hopefully refers to who is in the story/where and when it happened/ and what happened). The events then get written in order and a conclusion finishes off the work. We sequenced seven events in picture form before we started.
‘Whistleless’ – Viewing and Recounting
In English we watched the video ‘Whistleless.’ We then discussed the events in order and will use them to write a Recount with ordered events and an introduction and conclusion. If you select ‘Watch on Vimeo’ the video will play.