S1

Welcome to Green's Galaxy, S1! I'm looking forward to a great year with you all.

We have now finished our Fairy Tales, and will be shortly moving on to a novel which I know you will enjoy. You'll have plenty of opportunities to stretch your skills, and you'll write your first critical essay at the end. I hope some of you are decent singers, because I'm not, and there's music involved...

Today we reviewed proper nouns and collective nouns.

We drew pictures of our family to help us remember proper nouns, labelling them with names, months, places and days.

When we investigated collective nouns, we drew a group of our favourite animal (i.e. a group of tortoises, or cats, or lemurs etc.). We then identified the collective noun for that animal, and worked with using singular verbs in a few lines to describe the group (remember, collective nouns are singular!).

We all felt it was a really informative and entertaining lesson--the best kind!

REMINDER: Keith Gray articles due tomorrow (digital copies--remember to email or bring your memory stick!)