Sunday, June 28, 2015

Term 2 writing : recount

Mrs Wilburn can I tell you something well, one day  my  mum , dad and brother and sister and uncle and Aunty  were  at my grandpas house and they heard somebody  calling  HELP!. It was my  grandpa . They  all  rushed into his  room.  He  took a last breath. Hle  was  dying. I  didn't know because I was at a slumber party with  Sophie.  When I come back  I asked mum where is gg and wilbur. She said they are all at snows. That is what we called  grandpa.  Anyway mum said snow died last night I burst  out with tears. I was so sad. Snow was the best. On Wednesday it was his funeral.  I  said a speech. It was  we will remember him we will  remember.



Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Reading term 2

WALT: use clues in the text and our prior knowledge to help us make sense of what we are reading.

WILF: that the words selected make sense in, and are the best choice for, the gaps in the story


The Centre of the World

By Lynne Allen


In the ocean there was an island.

On the  _______1______ there was a forest.

In the forest there was a ________2________.

On the tree there was a web.

On the web there was a __________3________.


supermarket, shop, island, school, tree, grass, leaf, cow, spider, bug


The spider sat in the middle of her _______4_______.

"This is the centre of the world," she said.

"I'll ______5______ you why."


road, street, web, sty, pen, said, tell, told, yell


"I am in the _______6______ of my web,

and my web is the best in the whole _______7_______.

My _______8______ is in the middle of this tree.

The tree is in the middle of the forest.

The forest is in the middle of the _______9_______.

The island is in the middle of the ocean,

and the ocean goes on forever,

without end."


end, start, middle, earth, universe, world, island, street, road


Just then a spider in the next tree called out.

"Well that might be the centre of your world,

but this is the _______10_______ of mine,

because I am in the middle of my web,

and it is the best web in the world..."


middle, centre, end, start




1. Grass
2. Tree
3. Spider
4. Wed
5. Tell
6. Middle
7. World 
8. Start
9. Inland 
10. Start