Our Science Fair experiments are in full swing and we’ve been busy making observations and recording data! Check out all this learning in action: This week we also learned more about style in writing (see BC Performance Standards here). Style involves variety – variety with the language used (adjectives, interesting verbs) and variety with sentence lengths. We focused on the latter this week and before getting started we as a class decided that short sentences are 1-9 words in length, medium are 10-18 words and long sentences are 19 words and higher. After our teachers modelled the activity, we then took a sample of our writing and counted the number of words. Many of us were surprised to learn that most were short! And some of us noticed that only medium and long sentences were used. It became clear what we needed to work on, so we set some informal writing goals and put those into practise with our letters home on Friday. Looking forward to seeing more variety in our writing. In celebration of Vaisakhi, a few of our students shared the significance of the day with their peers and then led a craft activity. We learned that Vaisakhi is a day that marks the new year for the Sikh community in Canada and around the world and that Vaisakhi celebrates the creation of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh Ji in 1699. Great leaders in Howden & Clackson’s class!!
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