Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Class Four have been writing some phenomenal information texts about a dinosaur that they chose. We are going to publish them using Book Creator on the iPads.
The children have done a great job in including as many text type features in their texts as possible. I wonder if any members can remember them and add a comment below?
To warm us up, inspire and generate ideas for their own writing we have used Google Docs to do some collaborative, shared writing about an Allosaurus. This one document was produced by all 30 of our class-members with everybody chipping in to create a fantastic text. Parents, please check it out in your child's Google Drive.

The Passive Voice

We are coming to the end of our Information Text Unit for Literacy. We are researching information regarding our chosen dinosaur to create our class encyclopaedia all about dinosaurs. A key feature of Information Texts is that it is written in the passive voice. That is when the subject of the sentence is at the end. Can you take the sentences created from sentence builder and put it in the passive voice on the blog? Can you write a comment about today in the passive voice for the blog? Have a go and we can reply to peer assess if somebody has made a little mistake.

Dinosaur Top Trumps

A really busy session today in topic-based maths. Children practised their measuring and converting measurements in centimetres to millimetres. The children learnt about dinosaurs that were 10 or 20 the size of them. They used their dimensions such as head circumference, height and others then multiplied them to find the dinosaur's body dimensions. Before doing that children came up with a formula to help them multiply any number by ten or twenty. We published our findings and rules these on the ShowMe iPad app so that we can help the entire world with our ShowMe videos! Do you remember what the formula or rules are? Does it work wit ANY number? Can you show us and prove it? How about those of you that came up with a set of rules for x20, will that work with any number? Add it to the blog and prove it!