Bowen State School eNewsletter

Classroom Learning

PB

The students in Prep B are enjoying listening to and retelling stories this term. We usually work in small groups to practice our retelling. With our teacher, we read books and talk about the beginning, middle and end of the story. We write and draw about it. We have made wall stories from our retelling. Sometimes we use felt board characters or puppets to act out our retelling. What a lot of fun we have with the puppets! We plan to set up a theatre in the classroom so we can present our puppet plays and story retells to an audience. Our class has some great little actors and puppeteers so we will have a lot of fun learning about stories and retelling them!

1/2B

1/2B are looking at describing characters in stories this unit. Year 1 are looking at writing a description of a character from the end of the story. Year 2 are comparing 2 similar characters from fairytales. We need to know about the appearance, traits, thoughts and actions of characters. Year 1 read The Very Blue Thingamajig and then drew their own thingamajig and described it.

3B

3B have just completed a week of NAPLAN and what a great job they've done! I am so proud of how positive they have been throughout the whole process.

In English, we have been reading Charlotte's Web and are now beginning to write our letters to persuade city children to come and visit a farm, like us country folk are used to! For Monday afternoon sport, Mr Gulliver has put 3B through two intense fitness sessions. As you can tell by the attached picture, they must've worked extremely hard as this was the result at the end of it - bodies lying all over the ground!

4B

In 4B we have begun a visual arts unit called “Patterns in our playground”. We have been exploring the use of line and colour to represent patterns in our classroom and in our playground. On Thursday this week we went exploring through our school to find these patterns. We are looking forward to creating some collaborative pieces to display in our room.

5B

This term we have been studying the fantasy genre and looking at the characters in Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest: The forests of silence. The students have enjoyed reading and listening to the book - as well as making their own judgements about the actions of the characters in the text.

6B

Currently in 6B, students are learning about advertising in order to construct a multi-modal advertisement to persuade readers as to why Bowen is the ultimate holiday destination! Students are learning about the text structure of advertisements including the headline, sub-headline, copy text, logo, images, and slogan; as well as the language features used to persuade readers such as modality, repetition, emphasis, rhetorical questions, figurative language, and evaluative language.