Upgrading sentences

On Friday our writing task was to upgrade some sentences given to us. We talked about what a Year 4 sentence needed. We decided each sentence needed adjectives to describe the nouns.
The first sentence we had to upgrade:

• The girl touched the cat.

The happy little girl patted the friendly cat. - Carlos, Calab, Jordan

The famous girl touched the talented cat that could climb high trees and curtains. - Callum, Leah, Tegan

 

The fancy little girl patted the blonde, furry cat. - Charlee, Jodi, Talia

The next sentence we had to upgrade:

• Slowly, the fish swims in the tank.

Slowly, the gold fish swims in the big diamond tank full of water, while a person watched him swim. - Tom, Sam, Liam

 

Slowly, the talented fish swam in the ginormous, triangular tank. - Georgie, Claudia, Josh.

Slowly, the shiny golden fish swims in the round, transparent fish tank. - Bri, Dakota, Nicole

Visiting the RSA musuem

Our first week back of Term 2 has gone extremely fast. We ventured down to the RSA museum where we were lucky enough to have Bruce Kavanagh share all his knowledge about war, especially World War 1. This has inspired some of our very own children to do some research at home about their own family members that have served and the stories/memories they have from war.

 

Here we are outside the RSA standing around a mural painted of Edmund Bowler (Gore man) who was the first New Zealand soldier to set foot on Gallipoli.

 

 

On our travels home we stopped via the Field of Remembrance next to the memorial to see those who honoured the community by serving overseas in the First World War. 

 

Dictionary cricket

Today for fitness we played dictionary cricket. Girls verse the boys! The aim of this exercise is for the girls to get as many runs as possible by running shuttles, while the boys are finding a word in the dictionary. Every boy has to find the same word before the girls can stop running.

 

Now it's the boys turn! Here they are lined up ready to go, while the girls are waiting for their given word.

 

 

Over three innings the girls are leading the table with a total of 195 runs while the boys are close behind with 186 runs.