Inquiry, writing and Geography

INQUIRY:
For our first mini home assignment, Year 6 students will be creating a poster about '6 events that shaped my life'. Today in class, we discussed including borders, titles, subtitles, colour and information on our posters. We all selected a piece of A3 coloured paper, however if all their work won't fit on one sheet they are encouraged to come collect another sheet as well.

We started our paragraphs today and emphasised that in Year 6 students should be writing around 5 sentences per paragraph. Some prompts we discussed were What is the event? How did it shape your life or impact on your life? Why did you choose it? Who else did it impact on?

This poster will be due on Friday.

WRITING:
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about narratives and how to improve our own writing. During the first week of school, students wrote a narrative about 'The day I had super powers'. Last week we edited our writing using VCOP and wrote goals of how we wanted to improve. Today we have written a new plan for the same topic, explored how to start our narratives in interesting way and figurative language. We will continue to discuss strategies to help with our writing across this week, but it may be a great conversation starter with your child to talk about their narratives and what vocabulary they might be able to include.

GEOGRAPHY:
As part of our Events that shaped the world theme students will be mapping the tectonic plates. Below is an introductory video that we watched today, as well as, a couple of other interesting videos relating to the topic you may like to watch from home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_UBLFUpYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPghqnnTVk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvIDxu7twpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW23Z94yf24