Research using Text Features, Persuasive Writing and Editing, East Coast Boat Final Design and Insect Observations...

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Literacy:

Text Features:

We have been reading diagrams, photographs and captions in order to find out important information about or insect such as their Life Cycle the stages their Complete Metamorphosis or Incomplete Metamorphosis and the important parts of their bodies:

We have then been practicing adding our research insects life cycle to our graphic organizers, paying close attention to each stage.  We have also been practicing sketching our insect and labeling all of it's important body parts.

We have been paying close attention to photographs and what they can help us visualize and understand about our insect/bug.

Captions can help us to understand these visuals better. It is important to read the captions when we are reading a photograph.

Next week we are excited to begin adding all of this research information we have gathered and putting it into our final Google Slides presentation of the year!

Persuasive Writing and Editing

This week we have worked hard to use or ideas from our graphic organizers to write a rough copy of our persuasive writing about which part of Canada we would like to visit the most.

We used our OREO organizer to help us with format.

We then used or Transition Words sheet to help us choose a suitable transition word for or beginning, First Reason, Second Reason,Third Reason and finally our concluding sentence. These words make our writing flow better and sound more interesting instead of and, and, and!!

We remembered to double space our rough copy so that we have lots of room for editing. We will be editing for Capitals, Periods, 'No Excuse' spelling words, and descriptive details.

We get to choose between if we want to type up our final good copy on Google Docs or if we want to use fancy writing paper to neatly print our final copy.

Final Boat Re-Design

After all of our work learning about the East Coast of Canada, investigating Boats and Buoyancy and designing and redesigning boats we are working in groups to design one final prototype of the perfect East Coast ship. 

We are taking turns talking through what worked the best, what did not work well and combining our ideas to come up with one final prototype. 


We will be using Explain Everything to talk through why this is the perfect design and reflecting on why we chose the ways we did. 

Watch for this to be posted to IRIS next week!

Insect Observations

We looked at insect and bug specimens. We observed these specimens through the lens of a ENTOMOLOGIST. We looked for body parts, sketched what we saw, labelled our sketches and wrote notes about what we knew, thought and were wondering about each specimen: