News Review

Thinking About My Learning

Sentence Starters

Three things that I'm learning from doing our class contract are...
1.
2.
3.

PMI Thinking

Use the PMI framework to consider this idea.

One morning you get up for school to discover that all the adults have gone!

What would this mean for you?

What would you have to do for yourself?

What could you do?

What couldn't you do?

Group discussion - 5 minutes own thinking - then share ideas with a buddy.

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Writing Topic Ideas for the Week

Ilam Fair

School Athletics Day

Fireworks

Write a short paragraph that recreates a moment in time.  

Remember to describe thoughts, feelings, sights, sounds, smells.

Create a picture in the mind of the reader.

Understanding the Message

Look at these sports shoe adverts

Whats's the message?

The words and the pictures are used to communicate a idea

What idea are these adverts trying to communicate?

 
 

 



Try these sentence starters to help you think of a slogan

As __________ as a________________

Faster than a....

More bounce than a.......

Jump higher than...


What are some of the important features of your shoe?

Grip?  Comfort?  Weight?

Gone!

Journal Writing - My Weekend

Something I did...
Something I liked...
Something I didn't like...
Something that was hard...

PMI Television

Morning Learning Journal

Use your sentence starters to review something about your day yesterday.

I learnt...
I found out...
I liked it when...
Something hard...
Today I will...

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John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television in February 1924

How long ago is that!

These days most people have at least one television in their home.

So what are the plus, minus and interesting points for have television?

PMI

This is a thinking tool that helps us to think about a topic in a different way. 

Create a page in your learning journal to do a PMI on TV

5 minutes own thinking - then share ideas with a buddy.

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There are good programmes that teach you about the world I like to watch	Most people have a TV at home some people have lots of televisions in their home We have had tv for_____ years	Some programmes are...

Thinking Tools

Desk Move

Group of 4  in the same desk locations as last week
This week you choose!
Criteria - 2 boys and 2 girls per group.
Desks moved by 9am.

PMI
This is a thinking tool that helps us to think about the Plus - Minus - Interesting ideas about lots of different topics.

Did you have a good long weekend?

Create a page in your learning journal to consider (think about) the Plus - Minus - Interesting points for the long weekend.

5 minutes own thinking - then share ideas with a buddy.

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