Farewell

Dear Mrs Aikman,

After all these years you have been a lovely principal to Hay Park School.Thank you for all of the things that you have done to make Hay Park School look beautiful.You have never failed your job as a principal.Thank you for doing all these lovely things to our School.Mrs Aikman there are not enough hugs and kisses to allow us and show you how much we love you.

Leaving  a school is really hard.Mrs Aikman we will never forget you we will always remember you in our hearts.

My Space Inquiry.

Farewell for Miss Hopcroft.

Here is a link to the presentation that we have made for Miss Hopcroft.

Guerrilla Poetry

WALT: We are learning to use descriptive language to create a picture in the reader’s head.

Brainstorm using the padlet (password is home) ideas about ‘where you are from’ using the five senses: look, feel, smell, taste and hear.

Write your poem here:

Cold with hot mixed with  kids, running around in the sand.

In the beach enjoying the Sun.

Dirty feets in the house.

Smelly cats and smelly dogs.

Kids moaning, no food.

Cats and mud all over the place.

Legs and pegs on the couch.

Hooks and books on the table.

Once you have finished, show the teacher. Then get some chalk and an ipad and find a place around the school to share your poetry. Make sure you take a photo of it to post to your blog!!

Phases of the Moon

Explanation writing

WALT: I am learning to write an explanation.

Success criteria	Me	LB	T
I have used an interesting title that tells the reader what my writing is about			Y
I have used a general statement to introduce the topic			Y
My writing explains how one thing leads to another
I have used time connectives to show the order of the process (first...next…)
I have organised my text using paragraphs
I have linked together 2 or 3 sentences to show cause and effect (so…if…this causes...this makes...because)
I have used technical vocabulary
I have used capital letters, full stops and commas

Use this chart to help you to write an explanation on the 8 phases of the Moon.

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The phases of the Moon

Have you ever wondered why the Moon can look different every night? There are eight key phases that the Moon goes through every 29.5 days, which is the same as one month.

The Moon’s orbit takes 29 days.When the Moon is orbiting it starts with a New Moon and the Waxing  Crescent follows the New Moon.

The  New Moon is black and when the New Moon is orbiting around Earth it changes shapes.If the New Moon is orbiting Earth the Waxing Crescent comes up and it looks like a banana shape!

After  the Waxing Crescent it is the First Quarter.First Quarter is like the  half of a hole Moon.

The Full Moon gets its light from the Sun and that means the Sun reflects its light to the Moon and that is how a Full Moon gets light.

Pluto information report.

We are learning to write an information report about a topic related to space.

By Friday 5 June you need to have written and edited your information report on a topic related to space so that it is ready to be published.

Here are some ideas to write about:

• Jupiter
• Astronauts
• Earth    
• The Moon
• Eclipses
• Stars
• PLuto✔

My topic is:

Pluto

You need to attend one workshop with the teacher on an area that you feel you need help with for your writing. Here is the timetable where you will make your bookings. There is space for seven people in each workshop so book in quickly to make sure there is space!

Start researching and plan your writing here: (remember to write notes in your plan). Click here to see an exemplar of a plan.

Introduction: ask questions  and  interesting informations.
Main idea color	More detail: pluto’s color is yellowish-brown	More detail:
Main idea: Far away from Earth.	More detail: 5.8 billion kilometers	More detail:
Main idea:	More detail:	More detail:

Success Criteria for writing. Click here to see an exemplar of an information report about Mars.

Level 3	Student Targets:	Yes!
Audience and Purpose	Identify my audience and purpose for writing.
Content/Ideas	Write clearly and include all important information.
	Add factual detail to expand my ideas.
Structure: including punctuation and grammar	Use different sentence starters.
	Join some ideas using conjunctions such as: when, while, after, since, until, if, because, although, that
	Organise my ideas into paragraphs and sequence my ideas so that my writing flows.
	Use subheadings for each new paragraph to tell the reader what it is about
	Check that I am writing in the present tense (for example: the sun is a ball of fire; the stars are shooting through the sky)
	Use a range of punctuation correctly.    (.,?!)
Editing	Identify and correct most spelling errors.
	Improve my writing so that it is more enjoyable/informative for the reader.

Start your writing here:

 Pluto.

Introduction

Some astronomers  think that Pluto is not a planet anymore,but I think pluto is still a planet because Mercury is almost the same size as Pluto.

Color.

Pluto’s color is yellowish-brown which is the same as Saturn’s color.

Far away from the Sun

Pluto 5.8 billion kilometers away from the Sun.

Temperature

Pluto is  very cold.I wouldn't want to go to Pluto!Pluto is about -387 to -369 degrees Celsius. Pluto.Pluto is known as the icy planet.

When did Pluto

lost status?

In 2006 Pluto lost status as a planet because astronauts thought that he is too little to be a planet.Actually Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet.I thought that Pluto is the only dwarf,but the other dwarf planets aren't in the Solar System.

Moons

Pluto has 5 moons but  I can only tell you 3 of Pluto’s moons,because I only know the 3 of them.The first one is Charon,the second moon is Hydra and the third moon is Nix.

Why is Pluto

named Pluto?

Pluto is named Pluto, because of the Greek God under-land.  

Length of day.

A day on Pluto takes 6.39 Earth days.

Length of year.

A year on Pluto takes 247.7 Earth years.

        Thank you for reading!