Throughout November the class has been working on a piece of text lifted from the story 'Swiss Family Robinson'.

Reading comprehension through context was main feature of this text The class was challenged to think about new vocabulary to gain meaning from where the word was in the sentence and in the context of the story.

Also, from this text we moved on to a 'Deserted Island' challenge where students worked in groups and from a list of items, including such things as matches, tent, radio, etc., they had to discuss the usefulness or not of the items and then present to the class. We were looking at improving fluency when speaking, and looking at asking questions. A grammar focus through this task was looking at comparatives and superlatives (ie. good, better, the best), as well as visiting making positive and negative statements in the present and past tense, and asking quesions.

For the reminder of the term we will be reviewing some of the work we covered and looking at things related to Christmas and the winter holidays.