Day: August 7, 2024

2 words 2 minutes

Today we used the ‘2 words 2 minute’ challenge to write a description about the ancient olympics. Before I tell you what we did, I will explain the 3 rules. 1. Don’t stress just guess, 2. Write as fast as you can and the 3rd rule is Make sure it makes sense. We first talked in pairs about the things we knew about the ancient olympic. We chose the words ‘Greece’ and ‘athletes’ to help us think about what we were going to write. After we thought about it, Someone started the timer and it was our turn to write what we knew about the ancient olympic. The timer was up and we readed to our pairs what we wrote. After that we missed a line under our story, then we wrote PLI which means Personal Learning Intention, I needed to focus on my compound sentence and my complex sentence. I had fun with this activity because it made me think what I should write and I also had 3 rules to remember while writing my story/sentence about the ancient olympic.

Calling all Riders

LI: To make connections (self, text, world)

LI: To read and understand a informational text

LI: To make inferences about the events in the text using the clues provided by the author.

LI: To understand the purpose of the text.

Our guided reading text was ‘Calling all Riders’. We worked cooperatively as a group to unpack the text and answer questions using evidence from the text to support our thinking. All our responses were written in the comments tool. 

Ancient Greek Olympic Research Challenge

LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games

LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor

Our challenge was to work in our groups to carry out a mini collaborative inquiry into the ancient olympic games. We used our smart searching skills to help us answer the questions. Our group worked astonishing. Something I found interesting was Zeus was the god of the sky in ancient greek mythology. The ancient Olympic Games were even made to honour him. He is considered as the ruler, protector, and the father of both god and human.