Explanations

Today we had to look at an explanations in groups and show what we know, by identifying the structure of an explanation (What are the parts of an explanation?).  Yesterday we read lots of explanations and looked at some power points so we had an understanding of what we needed to find.  We found out there are 2 types of explanations- How things work? and Why things happen?.  We found a title (question), an introduction (big ideas), paragraphs in sequence with information, cause & effect ( complex sentences), connectives, present tense (now), specific nouns about the subject eg honey-stomach, drone, descriptive verbs eg evaporates, technical words eg enzymes and a conclusion (summarise what the explanation is about).

Rylan's Homefun Mascot

Creating Strong Joints

 It is very important that any joints made are strong and will nor come undone.  Today we investigated different ways to join two straws using the following materials - pipe cleaners, sellotape, glue, cardboard triangles and more.

Investigating Structures & Joints

  In order to make a strong bridge we must ensure that the structure is strong and that any joints are as strong as possible therefore we investigated joining straws as part of our technology unit 'Bridging the Gap'.

Jandr'es 3-D Shape

Heads Down, Thumbs Up!

Madison & Angelique are in!

Hurry, hurry.  Don't peek!

Thumbs up!

Drama - Fairy Tales

2-D Art

Thinking about the 2D shapes to use.

We used  these concepts - shape, abstraction, overlapping, use of space and focal point.

We used pastels to colour the shapes.  Where it overlapped we used a different colour.

Doesn't this completed work look great!

Can you spot the 2D shapes?

Painting on the dye.

Be careful with that dye!  

AMAZING ARTWORK!

Working together to add the background.