Frozen Kingdom

This term, we have been exploring the Frozen Kingdoms of the world by learning about the North and South Pole.  We have located them on the world map and learnt about the climate, the landscape as well as about the animals and people that live there!  We have had so many questions, and have been fascinated by the amazing landscape and its beauty. 

In literacy, we have continued with our topic and been utilising film to fire our imagination.  We have loved using the short film Tuurngait - https://vimeo.com/114876998 to explore film and inspire our writing.  Also, we have developed our understanding of descriptive language to create images.  We have written amazing poems entitled 'I want to be an explorer...' - the imaginary and figurative language used has been outstanding!  Really proud of the efforts made - check out a few of the poems below! 

We have also immersed ourselves in the life of being an explorer in preparation for our new literature text - Race to the Frozen North.  We set up base camp, organised a fitness regime to ensure we are physically fit to survive the adventure and designed our base camp flag!  

As part of our topic, we have also been learning about the Titanic!  We have learnt all about the 'unsinkable' ship and what happened that tragic day!  We have also been thinking and learning about the science behind how a boat floats and been helping Cockle Picker Hari to design and make a boat to carry the most cockles.  We designed and made lots of boats to test and found the perfect boat shape in order for Cockle Picker Hari to make the most profit!  We have also been news reporters and analysed news reports from the tragic event - so many newspapers reported the wrong story!  So we set about finding out the facts and created our very own news report - Newsround style!  We needed to stay in role, use a loud, clear and suitably expressive voice, and use formal language to share the news with our audience.