Hi everyone,

I will be taking five students from the Blue Building to the next RoboCup Junior workshop today, so Mr Uzelac will be with you. Keep up the great work you have been doing with relief teachers!

8:45am: Unpack and catch up with everyone from the weekend

9am: Team Meeting

9:30am: Creative Writing

• Use the below prompt to write a creative piece of writing. Aim to write at least 100 words.
• Before you begin writing, I want you to consider the following things:
  • What is the purpose of your text? To entertain, to describe, to inform, to instruct….
  • Who is your audience? Young children, teenagers, adults, boys, girls… your text will be different depending on who you are writing for.
  • What form of writing will you use? Short story, interview, journal, poetry, fable, newspaper article, letter, etc. You are not restricted to any of these.
  • Brainstorm your ideas. Spend about 5-10 minutes on this.
• After you have completed the pre-writing tasks, you can start your first draft. Focus on doing the things that we have talked about: punctuation (capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, full stop / question mark / exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, quotation marks for dialogue); simple, compound and complex sentences; descriptive writing, word choice.

Whilst on a walk, you discover a mouse-sized elephant with butterfly ears flitting among some flowers. You could write a story about your encounter with this creature, you could write a poem about it, you could write a (fictional) information text about this new species… and so on. 

Image by thethreesisters licensed under CC-BY 2.0 Generic

We’ll be editing tomorrow, so you must have it completed by the end of this lesson or it becomes Monday’s homework.

10:10am: Fitness

10:35am: Science – How Does Electricity Flow?

• Read through the text, “How Does Electricity Flow” and then answer the set questions. Mr Uzelac will give the the sheet.

11:30am: Building Maths

12:50pm: Eat lunch in your seats

1:30pm: Spelling / Literacy Pro Test

• Mr Uzelac will give you your words. Get together with people in your group to discuss what word feature/s you are looking at this week. Mr Uzelac will help you if you need him.
• The following people need to complete a Literacy Pro test: Judy, Emma, Blake, Que Anh, Quyen, Trang, David, Tien, Jason L, Praban, My, Riley, Zulfikar and Tiana.

Homework for this week – you MUST record it in your diary.

• Spelling – 100 points need to be completed and handed in on Friday morning.
• Reading / Reading Reflections – 20mins. Complete one Reading Reflection (in detail) every fortnight. Use the reading reflection sheet from last term. Next one is due Friday 5 June.
• Creative Writing – make sure that the first draft of your Creative Writing piece is finished for Tuesday’s lesson.