Writing A Procedure, Guest Speaker & Buddies

During this unit of inquiry - How we organise ourselves - we have been learning about procedures and what they are. We looked at various types of writing to see if we could recognise what procedural writing looks like. We had to arrange the pieces of writing into two categories - procedure and not a procedure.

We knew that a piece of procedural writing should be telling us how to do something. It should have instructions and tell us step by step what to do. The students did a really good job at organising the different pieces of writing.

We also discussed the different procedures we have in and around school. We had a big discussion about procedures having a system and steps to it. We could recognise many things in our everyday life that are procedures and even when we try to cook something we need to follow a procedure. 

We had a turn at writing a procedure. Mr Jon showed us how to make a lovely cup of tea. First we talked about each step he would have to do to make it. Then we watched as he showed us the steps. Next we had a set of photos for that procedure that had to be put into the correct order. Finally we wrote the instructions for making a cup of tea.

Captain Mike

On Thursday Mr Brown came over from the secondary school to share with us his knowledge of sailing and how he has to be mindful of the weather to safely travel on the sea in a boat. We had so many questions and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the answers.

Buddies

Also on Thursday our buddies came to hang out and help us with measuring using standard and non-standard units. We had a lot of fun measuring various things and were challenged to find out if some theories were true or false.

- Is your arm span the same as your height?

- Is your forearm the same size as your foot?

- Is the circumference of your neck the same as your waist?

- Is you pointer and thumb the length of your nose?

Ask your child to show you what we did. It was a lot of fun!