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Onomatopoeia

Today we learnt about onomatopoeia. We learnt that onomatopoeia describes words that make the sound they say. We watched a video about onomatopoeia.

Then we looked at comic strips with onomatopoeia, and art by Roy Lichtenstein who used Ben-Day dots to make art, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s.

We used Photobooth on the computers to take a photo of ourselves posing like we were in a comic strip and made our own onomatopoeia phrases with bubble letters. Come and check out our art in the Arts Festival in week 10!

Suzy from St Johns Ambulance says "Call 111 in an emergency."

Yesterday we had a visit from Suzy at the St Johns Ambulance service.  She taught us all about the very important things that the ambulance service does in our community and how they help us.  She told us about the different kinds of emergency services and how each one can help us.

Suzy talked about what kind of emergency services we might need and when we needed to call 111 and when we didn't.

Suzy asked some of us to volunteer trying on the uniform.  Suzy explained how the uniform helps to keep people protected and safe.

Suzy showed us all some of the equipment that we might see in an ambulance.  It was very interesting looking and holding the breathing mask, bandages, gloves and stethoscope.

Some of us had a go at pretending to phone 111.  We learnt some of the things the emergency operator will ask us if we ever need to ring in an emergency.  Some of the things that we need to know are...

What is your address?
What is your phone number?

Tell me what happened?

It would be wonderful if students could please practise this at home as it is so important that children are able to say their address, phone number and full name.

At the end of the session, Suzy let all of those people who wanted to, to try on the uniform.  Maybe we have some future Ambulance Officers in the making?