Mnemonics

We have identified words that are difficult for us to spell and made mnemonics for them to help us remember the spelling. Here's a few examples:

Brother - Berries Roll Over The Hedge Every Rainfall (Armaan)
Flush - Flush Like Ugly Stinky Hens (Farshed)
Friend - Fat Rhinos In Endless Naans Digging (Yaman)
Defeated - Dogs Eat Fish Eggs And They Eat Dogs (Meem)
Nuts - Nobody Uses The Shoes (Ashfaq)
Because - Bees Eat Cats As Useful Sandwich Errors (Sohel)
Views - Very Icky Environment Works Somewhere (Rushmila)
Contest - Cannonball Over Nasty Terrible Everest Stinky Tomato (Saqlain)
First - Fire Is Roasted Sun Toasted (Rhythma)
Neighbours - Night Eat Ice Gorilla Hate Burger Our Umbrella Rains Strong (Farhana)
Until - Unicorns Need To Iron Lobsters (Yaman... again!)
Leopard - Leopards Essentially Often Park At Rusty Dumptrucks (Mahabubul)
Rip - Rest In Peace (Lubana)
Hamster - Hot Ants Made Stupid Terrible Eeww Roast (Rushmila... again!)
Hot - Hotty October Termites (Mahabubul... again!)
Finished - Ferry Is Naughty In School
Roast - Rats Of America Stink Terribly (Rushmila... again!!!)
Popular - People Overcook Popcorn Up Lying And Racing (Lubana)
How - How Odd Wow (Farzad)
Muslims - Monks Use Sauce Like Iguana's Meal's Size (Moin)
Intelligent - In Nile Telling Environment Like Lime In Gazipur Environment Notice The (Zahin)
Believe- Babies Eating Lolypops In Evenings Very Educatedly (Yaman... again!!!)
Could- Crazy Old Ugly Little Duck (Lubana... again!))


Have a look at these websites for more information about mnemonics:
http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnem_example.html
http://www.nathhan.com/mnemonicexample.htm

Literature Circles in 4S

We have started doing these this year and, so far, they have worked really well. Small groups of students read the same book and then do some activities about it - activities chosen either by Mr. Sherratt or the students themselves. The books and groups were chosen by Mr. Sherratt for the first few times (Cloudforest with Zaima, Rawan, Yaman and Lubana, Serve Me Stefan with Saqlain,Sohel, Afsana and Afif). Soon the students will be making groups and choosing books themselves.

BBC Website has some great language activities

Check out the language activities on the BBC website. They're suitable for kids from age 4 to 11.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/literacy.shtml

Our class book - Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman

We're reading Boy Overboard. Here's some information about it from the Puffin website (http://www.puffin.co.uk/).

A story of adventure, ball control and hope.
Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to football glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face landmines, pirates, storms and assassins.
Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?
Sometimes, to save the people you love, you have to go overboard.

We'll be putting some of the work we do about this book on this site soon, so keep a look out!