How Do Waterspouts Form?

For Reading for week 1 of Term 4, we read a text about "How Do Waterspouts Form?". We were given reading activities to do on our Literacy books, but we had to make an Infographic - a DLO (that includes pictures, diagrams, symbols, flowcharts, words and numbers) showing what we've read. I've decided to make a slideshow showing all of the information that I have learnt.#

What I enjoyed: Making the flowchart

What I found hard: Tracing the pictures

What I found easy: Typing the information

   

How Do Volcanoes Work?

In reading for week 7, we read a text about how volcanoes work. We had to make an infographic showing what we learnt about different types of Volcanoes. It had to have pictures, diagrams, flowcharts, numbers and words.

We needed to explain the parts of the volcanoes and how it works, so I put a google drawing of it and added labels as well so you'd know which is which. I also added some fun facts about volcanoes, as well as a diagram and a flowchart.

WALT: Think critically when looking at information in different texts.

I found it hard: Searching up facts about volcanoes
I found it easy: Finding pictures to trace explaining the volcanoes' parts
What I need to work on: Explaining what the parts of volcanoes are for

Boring Street

This week for reading, we had to do an activity digitally from the story that we read called "Boring Street". I chose to do the first activity which was the one that we had to draw what we think the boys in the story looked like, then we had to write every information that we find about these boys.

I found it fun: Making the characters

I found it easy: Finding information from the story about the boys

Dumbo

Dumbo

From the past few weeks, we learnt about Dumbo. The story 'Dumbo' is about a baby elephant called Dumbo (even though he's supposed to be called Jumbo Jr. or Baby Jumbo) that was separated from his mum, as Mrs. Jumbo (Dumbo's mum) attacked the people in the circus. However, Mrs. Jumbo was just trying to protect Dumbo from the people that were being mean to him and calling him names, that's why she ended up hurting the troupe members. Dumbo tried his best to get her back, with Milly and Joe's help. The two kids soon then found out that Dumbo can fly with his large ears, he got inspired to do this when Milly and Joe gave him a feather, he sniffed it, sneezed, and next thing the kids knew, Dumbo was flying. Medici and the other people of the troupe decided to include Dumbo in their next show, (they didn't know that Dumbo can fly that time) his role was to put out the fire that was set in certain places, but things went wrong. The platform went up in the air while Dumbo was on it, and the troupe couldn't put him back down. Gladly, Milly was on the rescue, she gave Dumbo a feather as she remembered Dumbo could fly just by sniffing a feather. Her idea was excellent, Baby Jumbo finally flew with his ears, the crowd was amazed. I think Dumbo will soon try to find his mum.

I enjoyed: Making the characters' names

What I would like to do differently: Put more details on what the animals in the circus can do to entertain the audience.

What I found interesting: Making the characters by tracing them

The Perfect Gift

For reading from the past few weeks, we have been doing a slideshow about our reading activities. We had to choose five activities out of the ten of them. The title of the story that we needed to do two weeks ago was "The Perfect Gift". It was about a man who worked from home, and a stray cat that found the right house that she needed because winter was there. But when the the cat had to move houses as spring was approaching, she tried her best to find the perfect gift for the man as the cat wanted to thank him for taking care of her, so she somehow came up with a brilliant idea on what to give the man instead of giving him fancy things that he didn't need to use because he was already rich.

What I found hard: Doing the 'Seeing Both Sides' activity
I found it easy: Getting all the facts of the characters in the story
I found it fun: Making the Pictures
 

"Because Of Walter"

For the past weeks, we have been doing 'Novel Studies' and have been reading a book named "Because Of Walter". It was written by Carol Krueger and was Illustrated by Mary Dahl Winton.

The story was about a girl named Kaysha who has been in different foster homes because her mother was too young, and she couldn't take care of Kaysha. Once, she got to the Parkers Family, Victoria, the Parkers' daughter, didn't want to share her parents to anyone. So she puts Kaysha into trouble by pretending that Kaysha stole her money, and Kaysha stole Mrs. Parker's necklace. But Shakespeare, the Parkers' dog, found the necklace burried under the tree. Then, many whales and Walter, an old male whale that Victoria and Kaysha helped, made Kaysha convince the Parkers' to adopt her, and Victoria and her were friends after helping Walter and the other whales get back to their natural habitats. At the end, the Parkers' have decided that they would legally adopt Kaysha.

We have been writing notes and activities like what Kaysha would be doing in the future. We also have been looking at the Author's background. We also have been doing notes if we would recommend the book. I actually would recommend this book, because it tells us many lessons, and because the characters' roles can be relatable, like Victoria's, it can be relatable for the people that used to be or is actually an only child. Kaysha's role can also inspire other people to do nice things that you need to do, even when no one is watching. The story also teaches us to be contented on what you do and what you have. We also have been making Y charts for Kaysha and Victoria

Y chart of Kaysha and Victoria

The past weeks in Literacy, we have been working on a Y chart about Kaysha and Victoria.