Clocks

Please remember to bring boxes and your decorations to start making your clocks on Thursday.  If you would like to make it into a real working clocks you may order a clock mechanism at $6.95.

Welcome Back

Welcome back to 2012.  Please check our blog as I will be putting lots of information and activities on it.
Please bring to school this week an empty 250ml bottle or bottles as some children will be making sand times as part of our time unit in maths.  Also we all will be making a clock, with really working hands.  Can you please bring boxes, and items to decorate your clock. 

Gingerbread

Heat 125g butter, 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup golden syrup.  Take off heat.  Add 3 cups flour, 2T ginger, 2 T spice.  Dissolve 1t baking soda into 2 T cold milk.  Mix well into dough, leave to cool.  Roll out.  Cook at 325F for 15 minutes.

Really easy to make. Have a go.

Katlin

I loved having to ice the biscuits. I hope we can do more icing the biscuits again later on in the year.
Katlin

Icing biscuits

Diamante Poetry

In week 3 we will be writing a Diamante poem.  A diamante is a seven line poem that takes the shape of a diamond.  A diamante poem is about opposites ; the first and last words have opposite meanings. For example

Lion

Majestic, proud

Roaring,snarling, prowling

Mane,muscle ... Fleece, fluff

Bleating, leaping, grazing

Meek, gentle

Lamb

Light

Clear, bright

Glowing, shinning, revealing

Mirror, candle ... Whisper, shadow

Deepening, sleeping,shrouding

Black, quiet Darkness

The seven lines follow this sequence:

Line 1 Topic A (must be a noun)

Line 2 2 adjectives to describe topic A

Line 3 3 ing words action verbs to describe topic A

Line 4 2 nouns on Topic A, 2 nouns on topic B

Line 5 3 ing words action verbs to describe topic B

Line 6 2 adjectives to describe topic

Line 7 Topic B

Cinquain Poetry

We are learning to write Cinquain's.  These are a 5 line poem and follow the format of line 1 -one noun, line 2 - 2 adjectives, line 3  - 3 verbs, line 4 - 4 descriptive words, line 5 -1 noun