Chapter Chat - The Lonely Lake Monster - Haiku

This week we learnt about haiku and used this format to write our own! Most of us collaborated with a learning partner.
We also painted water colour images to go with our haiku - you can see them in class.

We have been reading The Lonely Lake Monster which is the book for Chapter Chat 10. We didn't complete a lot of the learning tasks for this Chapter Chat because we had our school production.
You can be sure we will be ready for Chapter Chat 11 though - The Wild Robot!

School Production - Matinée Performance

Kia ora koutou! This afternoon we had our matinée performance for the school Production 'Treasure'. We have 3 evening performances too - all sold out! Here are a couple of photos Mrs Kingston snapped from the wings - hope to see all our whanau over the next 3 nights!


 

Describing what we can see...

Today we used Padlet to record our thinking about what we could see in an image. We are trying to use descriptive phrases and to record our ideas quickly.
We only had 3 minutes to complete this task - have a look and see how we did!

Sourced from: http://www.literacyshed.com/the-images-shed.html

Blogging Challenge and Badges - Week 7

Kia ora koutou!
This week we are going to chase some badges.
We have a blogging badge which can be added to our blogs when we have 5 posts.
There will also be badges for mastering our 2x 5x 10x and more - so keep an eye out!

Here's an example - this is for learners in R14 who have posted 5 times on blogs.

Description.
Action.
speech.
How the character is feeling.
?use cliff hanger or rhetorical question.

The small waves dipped in and out.  The mysterious boat sailed across a vast ocean. Creak! Crack! Suddenly the ship crashed  into a colossal iceberg. “What?” shrieked Cooper. I think the ship crashed

Into the iceberg sead Taylor. The ground shook  beneath them as the mysterious ship crasht into another iceberg cooper was fitted.

The ship is seeking well we survive?

The Snow golem and Alex By Harrison

This week we have been learning about DASH? paragraphs for adventure stories.

• D = describe the setting

• A = use action
• S = use speech
• H = describe how the character is feeling
• ? = use a cliffhanger or rhetorical question

We wrote collaboratively today.

Alex trudged in the thick snow he saw the
white wrecking ball like moon. Suddenly a
snow golem appeared from the ground.
Suddenly the snow golem was shooting hard snowballs at Alex. “Holy moley!” shouted Alex.
Bravely Alex killed the snow golem with a
minigun. After Alex had defeated the snow golem Alex felt great😎
 

The yeti hunters

As Nate and kymani Dashed through the freezing cold snow they followed a trail that lead them to a dark cave they bumped into a blood-thirsty hairy yeti what the… said Nate. kymani went to grab Nate's arm but the yeti quickly grabbed Nate. kymani didn't know what to do so he pulled out his big ice sword and kymani stabbed the yeti with his big ice sword and the yeti fell to his death with Nate in his hands. Nate wondered was that fun or scary.    

  

the wispering taiwha

he woka with 8 men salde the 7 seas across the ocean in a shoe. lace after lace the shoe bubbled along in the dead of midnight...as they sailed through the sea 5 men fell overboard  the ship cept going .26 years later. A modern boat sailed past the taniwha eria sam felt the leather of a taniwha!it is ok i can seil back won't we sam but sam was not there the water SPLASHED! Jack's heart was pounding like miss trunchbull thundering down the hall but samuel was dragged under by the taniwha. No head gasped for eir he was a goner!

The Star Tree - By Pax - DASH?

This week we have been learning about DASH? paragraphs for adventure stories.
D = describe the setting
A = use action
S = use speech
H = describe how the character is feeling
? = use a cliffhanger or rhetorical question
We wrote collaboratively and used a writing frame for this learning task, then we wrote our own paragraphs today.

Luka and Pax sped into the dreadful forest, leaving no fear behind them. Suddenly, there was a sound coming from a nearby tree. “What was that” whispered Luka. A look of fear filled his face. Pax and Luka strolled towards the light. What was it…