Our Lady of Victories Primary School Shortland eNewsletter

Class News

Kindergarten

Kinder have viewed short clips on ducks and discussed information gathered from this source. Mrs Bradley modelled how to write a duck fact - a sentence that conveys information about ducks. The class assisted with suggestions on how to spell the words and copied the sentence into their books. They drew a picture to illustrate the information.

Kinder then attempted to write their own duck facts without any assistance. They have used lots of invented spelling, can read their own writing and have applied letter sound relationships to their spelling. Great job Kinder!

Year 1

In year 1 writing this fortnight, we have been learning about literary devices we can use in our narratives to make them more interesting. We looked at onomatopoeia and similes. We learnt that similes use the words 'like' or 'as' to compare two nouns and give the reader a clearer description. We learnt that onomatopoeia is a word that we can use to tell the reader of a sound, because when we read and write, we can't actually hear sounds from the story. Here are some examples that students wrote independently at the end of last week. Miss Payton is very proud of us and can't wait to see how we use similes and onomatopoeia in our narratives!

Year 2

Year 2 have had some fun writing some interesting Sizzling Starts. There are 6 different ways of starting a Sizzling Start: start with the action, use dialogue, make the reader curious, ask a question, use humour, add onomatopoeia. I hope you enjoy reading the following Sizzling Starts.

Year 3

This week, the children in Yr 3 wrote narratives that included the line:

Suddenly, in a puff of smoke, a dragon appeared….

Here is some of the children’s work.

Year 4

In Year 4 we recently had a Narrative Assessment.

We looked at a stimulus picture and talked about it briefly. We had 5 minutes to plan, then 30 minutes to write our story. We had to remember the features of a Narrative, including the Orientation, the Complication, the Series of Events and the Resolution.

We finally had 5 minutes to edit our work.

Everyone was very enthusiastic about their writing and made a great effort.

Here are a few examples.

Year 5/6

This week in Year 5 and 6, we used our fabulous Great Aussie Bush Camp experience to write recounts of one of the activities. We used the success criteria we co-constructed last term and drafted and edited our recounts to the amazing work you will read here. Many of you have seen the photos on Facebook, now you have the behind-the-scenes stories! Enjoy.

Year 5/6

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