Digital Devices

We love to write. We were inspired by a video clip about the effects of the overuse of digital devices. We chose our own genre to write about the information from the video clip. Noah shares his thoughts on digital devices.

A tribute to author, Sarah Johnson

You may have heard that we were very lucky to have New Zealand author, Sarah Johnson come to visit and share some author's tips to help us improve our writing. Sarah was absolutely amazing and a true inspiration to us all. We also recommend you check out her books, Wooden Arms and The Bold Ship Phenomenal, they are both great reads. As a way of thanking Sarah for sharing her time with us, Room 10 has been writing up a storm. Most of us are still in the editing and publishing stages, but Brooklyn has worked hard to get his tribute to Sarah finished. More will follow, so keep watching this space.

Character Description

Mandy has worked hard to describe her brother.

Ralph Tells a Story

Room 11 has been busy learning about how to overcome the challenge of writer's block. 

I Wonder, inspired by Jeannie Kirby

Author: Oceana

We're Out to Persuade You!

Room 11 has been working hard to learn about how to sell tickets to our school production. We have been learning about how to use emotive language, commands and rhetorical questions to sell tickets to you.

I'm Glad I'm Me, inspired by Phil Bosta

We were inspired to write our own poems after reading the poem, I'm Glad I'm Me written by Phil Bosta. For more of our poems you can click on our Author's Arcade page to read them.

Characterisation Writer's Theatre

Hot off the press, Kuini-Marnie and Felicity have used Educreations and Gloria has used Google slides to put together their description of a character from our writing page.

How Bizarre!

We have been inspired by the song How Bizarre, written by Pauly Fuemana (OMC). Room11 has used the music and written our own lyrics to write a modern day legend about Tutanekai and Hinemoa. 




To view more of our songs, please visit our author's arcade.

Tips for Writing a Comment on a Blog.

While trolling the Internet looking for resources for our Te Marae unit I stumbled across this video clip made by a class in the United States. It got me thinking about how  Room 11 needs to improve the quality of our comments. 

Watch the video and think about the improvements you need to make. 

What did you learn? What will you change?





Post a comment discussing the things you already do well and the things you will do now to improve your blog comments.

Now it's time to put your learning into practise, click on the links below and leave a quality comment on at least 3 of the classroom blogs on the list. Your challenge is to try and create a conversation between you and the bloggers. Ask questions or connect their information with the learning we have been doing or your own experiences. Perhaps you could even blog the class that was our inspiration for this learning.

p.s. Blog grades 3, 4, 5 classrooms.

http://www.theedublogger.com/check-out-these-class-blogs/

http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.co.nz

Cross Country

Vignette Writing

Room 11 has been busy writing up a storm about our cross country experience. We were inspired by the story "Cowpat Girl" written by Jessica Hemmings and used her writing as our model. Our "playing hard" learning was also incorporated into some of our writing too. We used Youblisher to publish. Click on the picture to read our ebook.

We Play Hard!

Room 11 has been inspired by Patricia Grace and her "Beans" story. You can visit our learning intentions on our writing page. This is just a taster. You will be able to view our other authors on the Authors' Arcade page as we were able to choose how we published our work.




We would love to hear what you think of our presentation and writing. We would also be interested in your view on how we could improve our next piece of writing and presentation.

We have already started reflecting on our learning.

Daytona said, "I didn't have enough time to read some of the slides."

Kuini-Marnie said, " There are spelling mistakes."

Mrs Stuckey said, "I can't read the text because of the colour of the font over the background."

It's All About You!

Welcome back to term 3. We are going to start off with getting to know each other again! We will be writing bio-poems this week. Check out our writing page to get a preview of what we will be writing.

Wow Take a Look at Our Final product!

Click on the photo and it will take you to our Author's Arcade.

A Great Start to the New Term

We Just Love Learning!

To begin our new term, we have been reflecting on our learning so far. We did this by "free-styling" for writing. For something new, we decided to publish our writing as a writer's theatre using the Explain Everything app and iMovie to be able to share it with you. Please go to our Author's Arcade page.