We are learning how to use complex and compound sentences. We are also using great sense words like fabulous, amazing and horrific. We learnt how to do this by playing with cornflour goo and using our senses to describe it.
Cornflour goo is very sticky because of the ingredients it has inside.
If you don't put water in it (which is basically plane cornflour) it feels ruff.
When you look at it, it looks strong and when you pick it up it turns into a liquid.
Cornflour goo tastes horrific, putrid and terrible. Only because of it's yuck cornfloury taste, if it didn't have that taste it would still be tasteless. But something tasteless is always horrible, so that would be bad as well.
It smells as bad as it tastes or worse.
It sounds wobbly and silent, if you drop it, it does a big splat.
This week we learned how to analyze an author's purpose. An author's purpose is why an author has written something, like to persuade or to entertain someone.
Today we looked at a book called Energy and tried to find keywords in it. Keywords are like the super important words on each page that help us to get the main idea. We also summarised the main idea on each page into 2 or 3 sentences, changing it into our own words as well. We were learning to think about these main ideas by using keywords as clues. I know that key words are called key words because they are like the key to unlocking the ideas in the story.
This week we are learning to identify key words in the story. Key words are important ideas that are important to the main idea. We can remember them by remembering that they are like the key to understanding a text.
