Welcome to another week in room 9.
Literacy: In room 9 we have been having fun with balloons. We hope you saw our balloon video we posted last time, we had lots of fun! We wrote about the balloons describing what we saw, how they moved and felt. We used lots of description words. Our favourite part was when we were allowed to bounce the balloons and yell out descriptive words.
Later we wrote about the activity and published our writing on balloons which we will hang around the room. Come and read our writing anytime.
Another lead in activity we did was to watch a video on ice calving. This is when ice breaks up quite dramatically because of global warming.
This is Francesca's story:
My knuckles turn as white as the big wave of ice moving hostily toward me. It crumbles and breaks as it sinks into the raging sea. As the bright mudslide moves towards me my body shivers and my hands brush the cool ice. Ice shoots in all directions like a volcanic eruption. The white sticky sand dune hurdles in all directions.
It reflects on my eyes as the jagged mountain breaks up like a roller coaster, then ice breaks up and down before melting into the ocean. It makes a crumbling stormy noise before another mountain is gone.
Eager to keep going another crumbling noise is heard opposite me. Ice shoots out of the ocean, colliding and breaking up again. Blue, black and white smash together creating an amazing experience. What a serendipidous encounter!
Swimming:Our last session of swimming was great fun as we got to do some life saving practises. One of these was to have a turn with the life jackets. You can see some of us here in a group huddle all wearing life jackets in the pool.
Thanks for reading
Ribh and Lara
