Inquiry

For our writing experience I let the student make fruit kebabs. I cut and chopped, sliced and peeled the fruit and placed it all into a bowl. The students took turns to make their own combination of fruit for their skewers. We had marshmallows and chocolate sauce. We all ate our fruit kebabs outside.

     

After some discussion, thinking, and brainstorming the students began writing their recount about making fruit kebabs. I was pleasantly surprised how enthusiastic they were to begin writing. 

Writing

I'm really excited about the writing in Room 25. This week I have 3 experiences for writing. The first one is about Rippa Rugby and the next is about a student who had a birthday last week and the whole of team 2 got an ice block each. The last experience for the week was making the tallest marble run in team 2. We have a new genre this week and it's recount writing. We talked a lot about recount writing and what kind of writing this was. I'll share some of the boys writing in my next post.

Writing

 After 3 weeks of getting my boys to write using picture cards. We have had some success. The boys enjoy writing. They have become very independent in making their own sentences and were disappointed when we did not have writing. The boys said they liked making their own sentences and then having something to write. What is really inspiring and giving me hope is the boys can read their sentences back to me.

  

The image above is just a couple of the sentences the boys can make. There were lots of discussions about the "Who" would be in their sentence and "What" that person would be doing and "Where" they would be doing this. I have a set of cards between 2 students. I hear the students sharing and having  conversations about going to the super market with own family and these conversation are important.  I have already taken the full stops out of each packet of cards and next week I'll take out all the WHO cards to see what the boys will write. 

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