The Weta, By Gideon

Here is a report that Gideon wrote about the NZ weta.

Spooky Narratives

Last week we worked on writing spooky narratives. We focused specifically on writing orientations that created suspense. Here are orientations and illustrations by Nox and Avalon.

As the sun was coming down, I went into a haunted hospital with my friends Jessley and Jayden. Everything was dark, we turned on the light switch. But the light didn't turn on. We heard a noise, it sounded like someone walking up to us. But the noise stopped and the lights came on, then...

By Nox

As the sun was setting, more zombies awoke and more clear white ghosts came out of hiding while we were stuck in an empty classroom. Then the girl said, "Quiet I hear something." It was a moan and they had to stay quiet as a fly. Luckily they survived...

By Avalon

We also had a go at creating spooky narratives on Puppet Pals. This first narrative is by Jayden and Gideon. They spent a lot of time drawing their characters and their weapons. They also got creative with their backgrounds. Great job!

Here is Jessley's story about a haunted car.

More Futuristic Playgrounds on Minecraft

A Spider's Web

The Ladybugs group read an article about how a spider forms its web. As a follow-up task, they had to present four facts from the story using Prezi. Here are their Prezis.

Superhero Narratives

We have been writing narratives using a story arc to plan our stories. Our narratives have been based on the superheroes we created over the last few weeks.

We imported our superhero creations into Puppet Pals and published the narratives we wrote.

What's Stopping You?

Here are some more Little Bird Tales explaining why we should wear seat belts. The first tale was made by Jessley and Gideon.

This tale was created by Jayden

Labelling with Skitch

As a follow up reading task, some of the groups in Room 5 used Skitch to label a picture from the book they read, to show what they had learnt. Here are the results. Click on the image to make it larger.

Life Education

Over the past two weeks we have been going into a special classroom called the Life Education Caravan. We have been learning all about being happy and healthy and we met Harold the giraffe!

Today during writing, we jotted down some ideas about what we had learned. Then we chose the most important idea to record on the iPad.

Here is a video showing what we learnt about the human body.

Here is a video showing what we learnt about feelings and being a good friend.

Disco Highlights

Here is a short video of some highlights from the disco on Friday night.

Talking to Room 10 at TPS!

Today we talked to Room 10 at Tamaki Primary School using FaceTime. They wanted to see how their friend Wally the giraffe was doing and we wanted to check out their classroom/school environment. Here is a short clip of the highlights.

The Ladybugs reading group had a go at making Popplets today. They used the new information they learnt from reading the book Wood Storks.

Gideon and Nox

Jaiden and Ethan Lee