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.

Camp Reflections

This week we have been reflecting on our camp experiences. One of our vocabulary building tasks was to think of any words that came to mind when thinking about camp. We then had to record each word or phrase onto a post it.

After that, we clustered the words and phrases that we thought went together and labeled each cluster. Some of the groups made Tagxedos with their words.

We have also been reflecting on our lowlights and highlights from camp. Jessley and Stephen have used Little Bird Tales on the iPad to record their thoughts.

Future Playgrounds on Minecraft

As part of our Learning Pathways topic: Future Focus, we spent a big chunk of term 3 creating futuristic playgrounds on Minecraft.

We used our designs to create playgrounds on Minecraft, we then had to take screenshots of the most important features in our playgrounds and import them into iMovie. We then used iMovie to make movies about our playgrounds. 

Here are some of the movies.

Our cool minecreaft playground from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Superhero Descriptions

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

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.

Poem and Speech Competition

At the end of last term, our syndicate held a poem and speech competition. All of the children in Room 5 are Year 3 so they were able to choose if they wanted to present a speech or recite a poem. Here is a video of the children from Room 5 sharing their speeches and poems.

Disco Highlights

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

The Lion and the Mouse

The Frogs reading group read the fable, The Lion and the Mouse. As a follow-up activity they had to retell the story using Puppet Pals on the iPad. Here is their movie.

We have been learning about Aesop's fables and how they have a moral or lesson to be learnt. What do you think the moral of The Lion and the Mouse might be?