Tuck Everlasting - Would you drink from the spring?

Tuck Everlasting

We are currently reading the novel Tuck Everlasting

 (click on the novel tab above to view more about this novel).

We have recently reached a point in the story where Winnie has to 

decide whether to drink from the magical spring and never grow any older, or not.

If you were faced with this opportunity would you do it?

I posed this question to my class.  

This is what they had to say...

Take Our Natural Resources Survey...

Natural Resources - How we use them...

Wastes and suitable disposals of them.

Prepositions

We are learning about prepositions this week.

Prepositions are words that can help show where, how and when something took place.   For example; among, behind, through and beneath are prepositions.

Read about prepositions here and here...

...learn some prepositions with this Prepositions Game...

...then watch this video of the story Scattercat by Lynley Dodd.

See if you can recognise the prepositions that she uses in the story.

Now try this Prepositions Quiz, this Interactive Prepositions Crossword,
this Prepositions Basketball Game, this Prepositions Walk the Plank Game 
or this Preposition Game and see how you go.

Good luck!

Novel Study - Term 1

Click on the 'Novel' tab above to see what we are reading this term.

Adjectives

This week we have been learning about 
adjectives and their antonyms (opposites).


Play these adjective games for practice...


PickIt Adjective


Adjective Detective


Choosing Adjectives


Enjoy :)


Miss White

Learning about nouns...

We have been learning about different 
types of nouns, collective nouns, and pronouns.


This is what we have learnt...



We have been practising identifying, choosing 
and using these nouns correctly in sentences.

Collective Nouns

Collective Nouns

We are learning about Collective Nouns.

Collective Nouns are special names for a group of things, such as a class of children.

Try out this game to see if you can identify the collective noun.

Collective Nouns Quiz

Play this game to identify different types of nouns.

Nouns Game

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

We are currently learning about The Water Cycle.  

Add any knowledge that you learn, or wish to share, 

to our Water Wallwisher.