This week Kindergarten learnt all about verbs. A verb is an action or movement word. They learnt a song about verbs and were able to identify verbs in sentences. 

Year 1 have been revising recount structure. We wrote a recount of our swimming lessons at West Wallsend pool. A recount has a title, orientation telling who, what, when, where, events in order and a personal comment at the end. After writing our recounts we found out that we need to improve our punctuation and to use capital letters for proper nouns such as West Wallsend.

Stage 2 - Year 3 & 4

Stage 2  have been looking at writing paragraphs for the body of an informative text. We looked at the layers involved, modelled as a hamburger, and after viewing multiple other texts and discussing our findings with each other, we created the criteria required to be successful when writing. The images attached show our final attempt at writing a paragraph about the staff at OLV. Miss Gallagher and Ms McGann were incredibly impressed by the word choice, sentence structure and depth of thought that has gone into their paragraphs.

This term Stage 3 have been looking at analysing Information Reports. Students were given a rubric to assess a variety of Information Reports against and then provide feedback on what the author did well and how they can improve the writing. Once students had assessed others work, they then used the rubric to assess their own Information Report and compared them to give themselves a star rating. Students then used the rubric to help them improve their own writing.