Sculptures - Our reflections

By Hayven

By Harry

By Dylan

By Charley

By Alannah

By Alex

Sculpture Art Based on the picture book - Only one You by Linda Kranz

The Story of our Sculpture Art

Here you can find out how we made our sculpture. There are plenty of photos showing the different stages of our designs. 

AG Day 2018

Here is a short photo summary of our AG Day adventures for 2018. 

Abstract art

Amazing Machines

We have been reading the big book:

 'The Amazing Machines' by Jill Eggleton. 

In reading, we are using inference to help us understand the hidden messages and our inquiry focus is to express our ideas creatively. We have combined these two focus areas into one by designing our own machines. 

Vocabulary Building

It is important to understand the words we read. We have been focusing on different types of words this term by learning new words, their meanings, compound words, synonyms,  antonyms, onomatopoeia as well as using the words in sentences and in our daily speaking and writing. 

Here are a couple of ideas about our learning

We have been learning these words and we have practiced by completing the task on the right.

Poems help us learn too. 

Compound words

Prefixes and Suffixes

We are building our knowledge of words that can help us understand the text better when we read or that can help us make our writing more interesting. We have been learning more about prefixes and suffixes. Here is a song we have been singing to help us learn.

Here are the lyrics for the song:

Prefix or suffix

Can you hear what fits...

before a root of a word, before the word is heard

That’s a prefix there it sits...

Once it becomes applied, the word is modified

Like dis- discover,

tri- triangle

sub- submarine, subterranean and subway.

Now that the word has changed

there will be something new for us to say.

Can you hear what fits

after a root of a word, after the word is heard

That’s a suffix there it sits

Once it becomes applied, the word is modified

Like -ful eventful,

-ing beginning,

-ness happiness, thoughtfulness goodness and kindness.

Now that the word has changed

there will be something new for us to say.

Here are a few prefixes just for you

anti-, counter-, extra-, hyper-, ultra-, semi-

Just to name a few

Now that we know what suffixes do

-ation, -ary, -able, -ate, -ize

will help you too.

And it’s true some words have two,

Reconstruction, disagreement, unlikely, reaction,

Now that the word has changed

there will be something new for us to say. (X3)