Our Literacy Programme

At the end of last week Room 3 started to explore writing our autobiographies. We looked at a biography of Martin Luther King Jr to see what information we find in a biography.
The children then created a mind map in their writing book about themselves. The information included in their mind map was

• birth date
• siblings
• parents
• school
• significant events in their life (broken arms, holidays)
• achievements

Once this was complete the children placed their information in to a timeline. We are now editing some time lines as they were not in chronological order!

Also the children created a family tree to assist with their biography.
Currently we have not started to write our biography as we want to explore some other examples. In writing today the children received a cut up biography of Barack Obama and they had to put it in order. This was a difficult task and the best group only got 2 wrong.

In our reading programme we have begun to use CSI on the biographies of famous New Zealanders. The children are unsure of who these people were but hopefully through some deeper meaning in their reading they can learn about these inspirational figures. This week the children are reading about

• David Lange
• Peter Fraser
• George Nepia 

Hopefully they will come home and share with you some information about these famous New Zealanders.

Mister A