Celebration of Learning - Literary Charcter Parade

We had a wonderful morning of sharing and celebration for our literary unit. Room 6 shared their writing inspired by Margret Mahy and we read some of her brilliant, beloved books. Room 7 children had studied Joy Cowley. The children had gone to a lot of effort to dress up as their favourite character. A big thank you to Dylan's mum, Denise, for supplying us with the following photos.

Literacy Day

Daniel's Comic

Gravity - Research and Narration by Mason Kennedy.

Jay's Comic

The Vicious Shark by Daniel Keatley

The vicious shark swims in the deep blue sea. He has a Parana as a pet. He takes it for a walk around the underwater playground. Everyday he feeds it scallopshells. The Parana scoffs them then they go to bed. In the morning they both eat scallopshells.

Our Margaret Mahy Assessment

Our Margaret Mahy Inspired Writing

Below are two photo stories of the children's writing. We read a book by Margaret Mahy called 'The Big, Black, Bulging Bump'. We used her opening sentence as a starting point and added our own endings. The children have drawn their own illustrations and have narrated their text.

The Big, Black, Bulging Bump Prt 1

The Big, Black, Bulging, Bump

Our Questions About Being In the Middle Syndicate

Starship Children's Hospital - By Therese.

Therese has been researching Starship Children's Hospital and has presented her information below. To see it in a bigger screen you just need to double click on the photo and it will enlarge. When you have finished reading it just click the back arrow.

Read-Aloud-Story by Tayla . The three Little Pigs.

robbie's fish photostory

Congratulations Dylan

Below are some photos from Freaky Friday. Congratulations to Dylan for winning the best dressed for Room Six. The seniors who organised the day were in charge of the judging and Dylan was presented with his prize at the Freaky Parade. Well done to everyone who chose to participate.

Freaky Friday

Rubric Max

Create your own Rubik's Cube

See if you can do the on line puzzle of Robbie!

Kyle on Television in Cat World

Greta in the Art Gallery

Congratulations Room 6 on your Ag Day activities.

What a fantastic Ag Day we had on Saturday. I was so proud of our animal handlers and of the work displayed in our classroom. A very special congratulations to Greta who won Grand Champion with her calf. The judges were so impressed with how well the Juniors led their animals. A credit, I think, to the fantastic support given by our parents. Below are some photos taken of the day. They include our animal handlers plus examples of our character bottles, collections and writing.

Ag Day

Goldilocks. A book review by Tyla Topia Hurst

My story is called Goldilocks. This story was written by 'The Book Company'.

I liked the baby bear. He is small. I want a soft baby bear like it. I didn't like Goldilocks going in and breaking the baby bears chair.

I think boys and girls aged 4 to 7 will like this book.

Margaret Mahy Study - Term 4

We will be studying the fabulous new Zealand author Margaret Mahy. Here are some sights you may find useful.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/margaret-mahy/

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/MargaretMahy/

Olympic Celebrations

Learning to podcast cast - Mrs H's example

Below are some sites which you might like to check out in support of our Olympic inquiry.

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/school-libraries/olympics-websites

http://www.olympic.org.nz/Front.aspx?ID=3783

http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp

Welcome to our Class Blogg

What is a blogg? Well it is like an online diary. You can post examples of work, writing, photos, videos, etc. It can be public or private and only the person with editing writes can add to the blog. You can view and make comments about our posts, but they will not be published until they have been checked and OKed by the editor (Mrs Hayman) Her hope is that we can use our blogg as a windoiw into room 6. Displaying our work, keeping everyone up to date with whats going on in our classroom and for students to include photos and experiences from their life outside of school.