Questions..and answers!

This week in reading we've been practising the comprehension skill of asking questions. We read this text together on our IWB and wondered the following question - after we'd read.

"Why did so many people die of the regular flu back then but not today?" We thought we'd ask an 'expert' for the answer so Ben W and Jaidene typed up an email to send to a doctor. I happened to have one as a friend so we sent it to Dr Stout on Facebook! Here was his reply - that night!

We put his reply - thanks Dr Stout! - on the IWB and worked out what some of the words meant. His reply gave us three reasons and this led to a great discussion about life expectancy and what your immune system is.

Then we wondered the following question - at the top of our 'prior knowledge' graph. What do you think about our wondering?

Adding more detail to our writing!

Our writing focus at the moment is to add more detail to our writing - this will help us explain! This site will help shows us how we can 'expand' more information into a piece of writing.

What's it called when we give more information about something? It starts with 'E'. - ELABORATE!

Here is our 'elaboration; about what Hauora is. The four photos show how we expanded the sentence - Hauora is about four walls.

Here is reading the written explanation of Hauora! Great ELABORATION!

Burying our time capsule

Today we put our letters to our future selves and our special objects in the two containers that made up our time capsule. We are looking forward to digging them up on our last day of school in December and reading our letters from the past.

We made sure that we placed the capsule in a spot that had some distinctive features (landmarks) and in a water proof container. We also had a surprise when we were digging the hole. Sophie found an old glass bottle and with some more digging we unearthed a pot lid and some other crockery. (I feel an archeological dig coming up soon!)

Our Time Capsule

What is a time capsule?

Here is a success criteria for our letter we will stash in our capsule - a letter to me in the future!

1. Correct spelling and punctuation

2. Questions, predictions and some likes / dislikes for me now

3. Write in paragraphs

4. Include a photo of your height now.

5. Your best effort with presentation