Room 18

Room 18
We are all looking forward to an exciting year of learning and fun in Room 18. We will use our blog to share our learning throughout the year. Please look at our posts and make comments. Check our ‘quality comments’ tab on our blog to learn how to make a quality comment. We love to hear what people have to say about our learning. Room 18

Sunday, 24 November 2013

Simon's Written Language

Simon decided to use the App popplet lite on an iPad to write his weekend news.
Well done Simon, I like the way you set out the popplet so it is easy to read.





Holly's Writing

In Written Language we imagined that we woke up on Sunnyhills Athletics day to find we had the legs of Usain Bolt!
Here is Holly's story, she was given a Deputy Principals award for her amazing work. Well done Holly, Room 18 enjoy listening to you read your stories to us.


The Fastest Girl in the World
I wake up to find my legs are in the best shape ever, it’s as if Usain Bolt gifted them to me.  What is even better is the fact that it is Athletics Day today at school. I run to the kitchen to tell my mum, it feels like I got there in a second. Wait, I DO get there in a second. I grab my breakfast, rush downstairs, fling open my heavy front door and run to school. I’m held back a bit because of my heavy bag, but I get to the school gate in a good 12 seconds. I leave a trail of sparks and notice a bit of dust flying around behind me.
I reach school and I suddenly realise, I can’t have people looking at these muscular legs. I panic as I look around for a solution. I remember I packed my uniform in case of an emergency and I think this just might qualify, I wear that in the meantime. I calmly settle down and walk over to the track. While I am walking, everyone is staring at me. I’m in the first heat of the races, which is a relief. I do the 100 meter sprint first and I get to the finish line in 5 seconds. I win the race by miles and leave everyone in my dust. I’m in shock, everyone is acting like it is a gobsmacking event. The crowd is screaming, shouting and running everywhere. My parents come up to me with beaming similes on their faces which makes me feel like the luckiest people in the world. I think they must be stuck for words as they look so astonished.
I turn around and see a TV van pulling up to the school gates. I watch as John Campbell steps out of the van and walks up to me. He starts asking questions, like, “How does it feel to be the fastest girl alive?” I freeze. A sudden silence falls across the crowd. “Did you say I’m the fastest girl in the world?” I say puzzled. “Yes, how does it feel?” Silence still. “It feels great” I say screaming. “How do you feel about the Olympics in a few years?” John asks. “I’m going to the Olympic Games?” I whisper into the microphone. I then scream my lungs out. “I’m going to the Olympic Games!” I strike poses, run around the field and just feel like the luckiest girl on Earth. I talk to my friends and I party like my life depends on it.
3 years later …
“Hello and welcome to the 2016 Olympics. This year we have the fastest girl alive, joining us, Holly Rowsell” says the commentater. I walk out into the middle of the huge field clutching a microphone in my hand. “Hello and as was said before, welcome to the 2016 Olympics. It is an honour to be competing for the first time ever and New Zealand wish me luck, hopefully I will be bring home a shiny gold medal this year” I say into the microphone.
I do the 100 meter sprint and I totally nail it. I won by miles. I was faster than Usain Bolt himself. After five hours I do the 200 meter sprint and yet again I win by a long shot. I go into the finals for both races and it felt as I was running, just like nothing, I could just breeze through it over and over again if I wanted to.
I fly back to New Zealand a month later with four shiny gold medals around my neck, even the plane trip felt fast. I watched repeats of the Olympic Games while relaxing in first class. I ate my lovely meals and then landed at Auckland Airport. To my surprise when I come through the giant sliding doors I am face to face with all my family, friends and fans. I catch a taxi home and somehow everybody had reached my house before me and is throwing a party for my success. I get millions of presents, a new iphone, xbox and a pet dog. The dog is a Pug which is the dog of my dreams. I have a wonderful party and everyone who joined me is gone after a while. I go to bed and I dream about the wonderful time I had at the Olympics.
I wake up in the morning to find my strong legs are back to normal. Luckily the Olympics had finished. I was so happy when I had the legs of Usain Bolt, but to be honest, I’m not much of a runner. All the glory was nice but I think I am more of a singer anyways!

By Holly


Monday, 18 November 2013

Kapa haka

Alana, Ishaan, Melvin, Brianna and Hazel are all members of Sunnyhills Kapa haka Peformance Group. They went to every Friday morning practice on time and enthusiastic to sing waiata, perform haka and the poi.
I am so proud of you all. Kia kaha.

The following videos are the Kapa haka group celebrating the year at their last practice on Friday.





Monday, 4 November 2013

Jia Qi, Amy and Michael's iMovie

Jia Qi, Amy and Michael chose to present their writing by creating an iMovie.
Well done, I like the way you added a crowd cheering at the end of the movie!


Auckland Art Gallery Presentations

Some people in Room 18 chose to present their Auckland Art Gallery writing on paper. They typed out their stories and then illustrated with drawings or photos to make their presentation look interesting.
 Well done everyone they look amazing displayed in the classroom.

Hazel
Maddison and Danielle

Meg, Kelsey, Ishaan and Daniel

Joseph, Brianna, Simon

Jonson and Alana

Auckland Art Gallery Trip Photos

Thank you to Mrs Greasley for the fabulous photos.


 

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Madeline and Will's Presentation

Well done on the Presentation of your Auckland Art Gallery writing. You worked very well as a team.
I like to the way you included photos to add information and to make your Presentation interesting for your audience to read.
Keep up the good work, Will and Madeline.

Carlos, Kerry and Devon's Writing Presentation

Well done on the Presentation of your Auckland Art Gallery writing.
I like to the way you went back and included background photos to enhance your Presentation. The photo on the first slide is effective which makes your audience want to see and read more!
Keep up the good work, Devon, Kerry and Carlos.

Brielle's Auckland Art Gallery Trip

Brielle went to the Auckland Art Gallery trip with room 17 as she was away in sunny Tairua for our class trip.
Brielle, I like the way you went back and decided to include photos of the Auckland Art Gallery as this made your Prezi more interesting and informative to your audience. Keep up the great work.

Damian and Jason's Writing

Great work, Jason and Damian on presenting your Art Gallery writing in a Prezi.
Keep up the fantastic work.

The Auckland Art Gallery Trip by Riley and Melvin

Well done Riley and Melvin you worked well together to present your Writing in a Prezi.
I like the way you have included pictures of the Auckland Art Gallery and photos of Room 18's trip to add information. Keep up the great work.

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Gardening with our Buddies

At Sunnyhills School we take pride in our whole school environment.
Today Room 18 and Room 21 worked together and weeded the gardens outside Room 1 and 2 that were looking a bit untidy. We had lots of fun together.

 













Sunday, 6 October 2013

Performing Perfect Plays

On the last day of Term 3, all of Room 18 performed plays.
Each reading group practised during the week on using an expressive voice and their actions.
We had a very big audience as we invited Room 14 to come and watch.
Everyone in Room 18 loves performing plays. Well done you are all great actors!

Here is the play Who's The Best? by Trish Puharich

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Grandparents Day

 

One More Minute

Here is Jason, Meg, Ishaan and Damian reading a story called One More Minute.
They used an ipad to create an imovie. They practised reading out loud to make sure they used expression and to sound like they are talking as they read. They assessed their own reading as well as each others and then made changes to improve their reading. It took three days to make their imovie and Room 18 think their finished imovie is excellent. Well done.


Monday, 9 September 2013

Auckland Observatory Trip


Observatory Trip

On Wednesday room 14 and 18 went to the Auckland Observatory by bus. We went there because we are learning about space for our Inquiry topic.
When we got to the Observatory we got stopped by Margaret she said, “come inside.’’ So we all went inside to watch a movie. When we got to the movie room we got to lie down. We watched a movie about Aliens and we looked at all of the planets. There are 3 types of planets. The Rocky Midget planets are Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury. There is also Gas Giants they are Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus.

We then had to go to a place for 10 minutes. We saw space costumes, two of them.

Later we went in the space room and we talked about all of the planets. I got to be Jupiter. Soon we had to go back to the bus.
It was sad to go back to school. I really wanted to stay at the Observatory.                        

 By Will
 
The Amazing Observatory
On Wednesday amazing room18 and room14 went to the Auckland Observatory by bus. We went there because our inquiry topic is Space.
We met Margret and she led us into a dome shaped theatre and we watched a really cool movie called Perfect Little Planet which was about, a family of Aliens trying to find a perfect planet to have a vacation on.  Then Margret showed us the constellations in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
After that we explored the Observatory. When I was exploring the Observatory I found an example of a black hole, you spin a ball when the ball slows down the gravity pulls the ball in and the ball spins faster and faster until it goes to the bottom.
Then we went to the space room. In there we saw how to brush your teeth in space! We also learned that Venus’s clouds act like a sleeping bag because the heat comes in and it can’t go out again.
Then we went to the bus and went back to school It was so fun I wish I could go there again!
By Daniel
 
 
Auckland Observatory Trip
On Wednesday 4 September Room 14 and Room 18 went to the Auckland Observatory by bus, the Observatory was called: Star Dome. We were going to the Observatory because we want to learn more about Space and also because it is our Inquiry topic.
First we met a lady called Margaret. She welcomed us into the Observatory. She led us into a theatre. It was obviously shaped like a dome because the Observatory is called Star Dome. The seats looked quite strange. The bottom part of the seat’s edge was facing upwards. I settled down next to my friend, Daniel. The seats felt really comfortable. Margaret then announced the rules and warnings. Soon the movie started. The movie was called: Perfect Little Planet. The movie was strange because the movie was on the roof. But obviously we were all facing up. The movie was about Aliens that wanted to go to a planet with no neighbours for a holiday. The movie talked about: Dwarf Planets, Gas Giants and Rocky Midgets. The movie ended with the Aliens going to Earth. I learnt you can’t land on Gas Giants. Throughout the movie I felt dizzy because I felt like I was moving with the movie. Next Margret showed us the constellations. I knew all the constellations except for some asterisms. I liked the Telescopium constellation the best. My second favourite is the Aquila constellation. My third favourite was the Triangulum constellation. My least favourite was the Orion constellation. The Orion constellation is a hunter that hunts down the astrologic creatures.
Soon we had a ten minute break. In the ten minute break, we were in groups. I was in Mrs Poole’s group. I found some interesting sights. One of them was a device which was touchscreen. This is how it worked: when you touched a planet, this globe on top of the device would change into the planet you selected. All the sights were fun, but soon Mrs Poole led us to a room. It was called a Space Room. We were the first group in, but soon other groups started to arrive.
We learnt lots and lots of facts in the Space Room. Margaret told some people to come up to the front. They were the people that pretended they were planets. I learnt the Axis looks like a small stick from the top of the world to the bottom. I loved the Space Room so much!
It was soon time to go back to school. I loved the trip so much! The best trip I’ve been on so far.
By Joseph

Cross Country Day

Here are some photos of Room 18 completing the cross country last Friday.
We are all proud of ourselves because we all tried our best.
Mrs Poole is especially proud of all room 18.
Congratulations to Ishaan, Will, Simon, Kelsey and Meg for making the interschool cross country team. Well done!

 

Monday, 2 September 2013

Shadows on a Sunny Spring Day

We went outside and drew our shadows with chalk on the concrete with a buddy at 10.40 am.
We then went back outside after lunch at 1.40 pm and stood in exactly the same place and again drew our shadow.

Here is what we noticed about our shadows and what we learned together.

Our shadow at 10.40 am was in a different spot when we went back at 1.40 pm.
Light cannot go through us.
Shadows are outlines.
Shadows are black because we are blocking the sunlight.
A shadow is formed by the Sun.
Our shadows have no eyes, mouth and no other features or detail. 
Earth is rotating around the Sun so the beam of light hits us at different angles at different times.

































Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Te Reo Maori

We are learning to ask what day it is in te reo Maori.
We practised together in groups and decided to film ourselves and made imovies!









Inquiry Learning - Space

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/NoUa4TidQSnb/Space

Here is a link to websites we will be using during class time to assist our Inquiry learning.

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Room 18's Role Models

In Written Language we wrote paragraphs about who our role model is and why. Here is our fantastic work!

My Mum is my role model because she teaches me to cook, be safe, read and do maths. My mum is the best role model ever because she has almost taught me everything I need to know. She knows how to cut a log without chopping your leg off and at the moment she is teaching me to cook popcorn, cut an apple and make gingerbread men. She is someone who is kind, caring and loving and helps me while I grow up. She always gives me good advice and shows me how to be safe. I can always count on my mum because she always loves me.

By Joshua



My role model is my mum because she always tells me what to do, like look both ways before crossing the road and do really neat handwriting. My mum also teaches me to cook things like cakes, pies, fudge and chocolate. My mum also teaches me how to read really hard words in books. I will follow my mum’s footsteps because she always does the right thing like when the house is messy she will tidy it up right away. Mum also goes to work and makes the family have money and I know that I can trust my mum whenever I go to her.

By Maddy


My role model is my Dad because I like the fact that he’s been doing well lately. My dad owns a retail company and he has got lots of people using Vend, which is his company’s name. His name is Vaughan Rowsell and he cares for my family and me lots. He’s also very talented. When I was about four, he rode his bike all over New Zealand in five weeks, which really inspired me. I love my Dad and I will follow in his footsteps because he has done really amazing things which has encouraged me to do the same. I wil never pick another role model because he is the best person I have met.

By Holly


My role model is someone who I look up to and someone who is very humble. He always corrects me and tells me about good manners. He encourages me when I play cricket and rugby so that’s why I play so well. I always will follow in his footsteps. He is very funny, he makes me laugh all the time. He teaches me cricket and rugby my two favourite sports. He is very smart and he shares his techniques of maths to me. I will always trust him because he has lots of experience in life. He is a very caring person and always looks after me. I can rely on him. I really love him and that role model is my Dad.

By Ishaan


My role model is someone I trust, someone who is responsible and sensible. I want to follow in their footsteps. My role model is someone who has experience in Maths and English subjects. My role model is my mum. I love Mum. I can always trust my mum and ask her for help.

By Melvin

My role model is someone who is humble. My role model is also someone who looks after me. She is responsible and she is a kind person. She is someone who gives me good advice. She teaches me more maths.  She shows me what good behaviour is. She makes me laugh a bit. She is also so sensible and she is also wise. She is respectful and explains things to me. I can always trust my sister. My role model is my sister Connie.

By Jason


My role model is someone that helps me and encourages me. She always takes care of me. She is honest and fair and I can rely on her and that person is my Nana. She is the person that I go to when I have a problem at her house.

By Brianna


Here are some reasons why my brother is my role model. He likes Lego as well as me and when I was four he built me and himself a really col spaceship. He gives me tips of advice for building Lego structures, plus he helps me research for my speech. He told me that Lego was first made in Denmark. My brother corrects me when I do something wrong. When we argue he always forgives me in the end. My brother is the best brother in the world!

By Daniel


My role model is my mum because she helps me with my maths and spelling. Sometimes when I'm not sure how to do something my mum gives me advice. My mum is nice and sometimes funny and she encourages me with my work. This is why my Mum is my role model.

By Jonson


My role model is my Grandad Gindle. I always look up to my Grandad. I walk to school with him. I respect him. He is so precious to me. I never want him to leave. I love my Grandad.

By Danielle


My role model is my mum. My mum is humble and kind. She is always in a good mood. When I need advice she is always willing to help. Mum has a really good job and earns lots of money for the family. She is never bragging and she is always reading from the Bible and I want to do that too. My mum is a great gardener and I like that in a mum.

By Michael


My role model is my big brother James. He gives me examples of how to treat my little brother and sister nicely and how to ignore them when they are annoying. He shows me what is wrong and what is right to do and if I am stuck in a difficult situation he gives me good advice. He tells me that I am responsible for my own belongings. He tells me that I am my little brother and sister's role model and I have to set a good example for them. He encourages me when I am too scared or shy to do something, but in the end I am not too shy or afraid anymore. My brother is an awesome role model.

By Amy


My role model is my mum because my mum is kind and responsible. I can follow in her footsteps and I can rely on her. My mum cares about me. My mum tells me what to do and she is respectful and sensible. That is why my mum is my role model.

By Meg


My role model is my dad because he is sensible and kind. He does everything correct. He is caring and gives me encouragement. I can follow in his footsteps because he is a good parent, not a bad parent. He encourages me for sport, doing art and doing jumps on my scooter and other stuff like that. He is the best my dad. He is a good parent so he is a role model to me. He can also be a good role model to any person.

By Simon


My role model always helps me with my maths. He tells me what to do and what not to do for my future. I will always follow his footsteps because he is really good at maths. He really influences me to do good things like to do what I'm told. He gives me very good advice for when I get older. The advice he gives me the most is about singers. My role model is my dad and it will never change.

By Hazel


My role model is my mum and dad because they are caring and they make good choices for me and my brother and sister. They are encouraging to me, they are kind, trustworthy and they are always happy and very sensible. When I cry and need help they help me and sort it out. They give me techniques for school and I can follow in their footsteps and be like them when I grow up. I love my mum and dad.

By Kelsey


My first role model is my dad because he is sensible and he helps me with tidying my room. When I do something wrong he tells me how to do it right. He encourages me with everything I do. Dad gives me good advice for the future. I always follow in his footsteps. He teaches me everything I know. My dad is the best role model.

By Alana


My role model is Sam my brother because when I do maths he helps me, he is also really nice and he plays with me. Whenever I do something wrong he helps me fix it and he give me good advice. He is a very caring person because sometimes we fight but we always make up.

By Will


My role model is someone that is kind, caring and responsible. She teaches me how to cook and if I make a mistake she tells me how to fix that mistake and she lives in Germany now. She gives me a lot of advice about life, she is very confident. I can trust her a lot and I know that I can tell her anything. My role model is my half sister Julie.

By Brielle


My role model is my cousin Maddy, she is 16. I think that my cousin Maddy is worthy of being a role model because she always cares for me. Whenever I am hurt she helps me go on. She also gives me lollies when I am sad. Maddy is also a great friend. She helped me build a tyre swing, it was really fast! Maddy is a great role model because I can rely on her.

By Carlos


My role model is somebody who looks after me and we both have big personalities. I look up to him all the time. I rely on him a lot. We do everything together. His name is Andrew he is one of my big cousins. I love him as a role model.

By Damian


My best role model is my sister Morgan. I chose Morgan because I know she is always honest and she is always there for me. She tells me if I am doing something wrong and I look up to her. She is very trustworthy because I know I can trust her very much. She teaches me new maths techniques and always encourages me. I know that I can rely on Morgan. I think Morgan is a great role model and will help me with my future.

By Devon


My role model is Mrs Poole because she is kind and caring. She is responsible and reliable and she teaches me maths so now I know that 68 + 23 = 91. I also know that half of 70 is 35. I also love the reading that Mrs Poole is teaching, she is the best role model in town.

By Kerry


My role model is my grandmother she helps me with maths and takes me to shops and zoos or Seaworld. She told me that Earth turns one circle = 1 day, when Earth turns around the Sun = 1 year and when the moon turns around Earth = 1 week. She tells me lots of information that I want to know. When I am stuck on something she always helps me out. She is good to rely on and she tells stories and sings songs and teaches me how to make dumplings. She cares about me and makes me laugh. I can look up to her as she is the best grandmother I ever had in my life.

By Jia Qi


My role model is my dad. He is the best dad anyone has ever had. He is sensible and responsible for what he says and does. He listens to me and helps someone when they need help and he would do it. I think he is a great role model and he will always be my role model.

By Madeline







Saturday, 17 August 2013

Madeline's Ballet Achievement

Congratulations to marvellous Madeline on passing her Grade 1 Ballet exam.
Madeline shared her certificate and medal with Room 18.
We are all so proud of you, Madeline.











Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Writing Paragraphs

We are learning to write paragraphs we use a set of traffic lights to help us!

Green light is the Topic Sentence and is the first sentence in a paragraph, it tells us what the paragraph will be about.
Orange light is the Supporting Sentences which add detail and they need to be about your topic.
Red light is the Ending Sentence which closes your paragraph, it means that your paragraph is finished.

Here is Devon's paragraph she wrote today about her pet cat Harold.



Inquiry Learning - Space Invaders!

Thursday, 8 August 2013

Working Together

Today Room 21 and Room 18 worked together to make friendship bracelets. The bracelets remind us that to be a good friend we must share, care, listen and play nicely with our friends. We had an awesome morning working with each other and proudly wore our bracelets all day.

Devon's Holiday Diary

In Written Language we are learning to write in paragraphs.
Devon was very lucky because when we all came back to school after the holidays, she went to Australia for a week!  Here is her Australia holiday highlights story. Devon decided to write her story like a diary using paragraphs. Well done Devon.

My Trip to Australia

Friday 26 July
I flew to Australia. When we arrived at the hotel we were staying at I was surprised because my room was amazing. It had a wonderful ocean view and wonderful beds they were so comfortable.

Saturday 27 July
My family and I went the Robina Shopping Centre. At the shops I bought a Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do It Yourself Book. I bought it at the book shop. For lunch I had Hungry Jacks it was delicious.

Sunday 28 July
It was my BIRTHDAY I turned NINE. For my birthday we went to Australia Zoo. First we saw the crocodiles they were only babies. Within minutes we saw the koalas’ one of them had a baby.

Monday 29 July
We went to Sea World. I went on Jet Rescue 4 times it was a roller coaster and it went 70 kilometers per hour it was very fast. I also touched a stingray at ray reef they are very slimy.

Wednesday 31 July
I went to Movie World. I went on the Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster it was scary. Then I ran to another roller coaster called Road Runner.

Thursday 1 August
I went to Wet and Wild and I struggled to get up the stairs to a ride called the Tornado. After that I went on the Kamikaze where you drop straight down and you’re on an inflatable boat thing, it was scary. For dinner we went to Twin Towns it was yum I had a really nice burger with tomato, bacon, lettuce and other stuff.

Friday 2 August
It was time to go I was sad. When we got to the airport we went to check in. It was a three hour flight we got back at 10:30 at night.

By Devon


Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Our Learning from Visy Trip

Visy Trip 31/7/13


  •  There is a machine that sorts plastic bottles. A scanner (optical eye) looks at the different types of plastic bottles that are on a conveyor belt and sends a message to the computer which then sends a message back to the machine to tell the machine how much air needs to be blown so that the different types of bottles are flicked up into the correct sorting bins
  • There are three sorting bins for the plastic bottles
        - milk bottles
        - coke and lemonade drinking bottles
        - any other bottles eg. hair shampoo bottles
  • Room 18 weighed 1300 kg and Room 14 weighed 1440 kg, a difference according to Riley of 140kg
  • A big magnet is used to sort aluminium and steel cans from all the recycling materials, sucks up the cans, spins around and drops the cans onto a different conveyer belt
  • Glass gets separated by colour; brown, white and green in the glass recycling building
  • Big bins sort out light and heavy materials by moving up and down so the light materials come up to the top and the heavy materials stay at the bottom. Paper is the lightest and steel is the heaviest
  • Aluminium cans get squashed together and then put into ship containers and taken to China, Korea, Malaysia and Australia to be recycled
  • Recycled plastic gets formed into a long tube and then hot air is blown into it to make a coke or lemonade bottle
  •  150 trucks deliver recycled rubbish every day to MRF (another name for Visy)
  • MRF works 24 hours a day/6 days a week
  • MRF stands for Material Recovery Facility
  • MRF can recycle paper, plastic, aluminium, cardboard and steel
  • MRF sells cardboard boxes, plastic bottles for coke or lemonade and aluminium cans
  • MRF cannot recycle plastic bags

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Teamwork!

Room 18 were set a challenge that involved spaghetti, marshmallows and teamwork!
Each Kagan group were given dry spaghetti noodles and a bowl of marshmallows and the challenge was to make a tower. 
The group who had the highest tower at the end of 15 minutes would receive 1000 house points each!
















































































 





After 15 minutes Kagan group 1 was the winner. Well done Carlos, Brianna, Maddy and Damian.

We discussed what the point of the challenge was. Room 18 said that it was about 'working together'. We talked about what was difficult during the activity and everyone agreed that it was frustrating when the spaghetti broke and it was hard to make the towers stand up.

We discussed what we had to do to work together. We had to share, ask each other for ideas, listen to each other, be patient, agree, take on others ideas, be co-operative, focus, show others, consider other peoples ideas.

Room 18 had lots of fun! 

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Written Language

In Written Language we are learning to describe a moment in time.

Room 18 all agree that it is a very difficult style of writing as it requires us to write in the present tense.
We are learning by looking at a photo of a scene and using our imagination to write to describe what we see.

Here is Holly's description of a moment in time of a boy playing in the rain.

It’s Sunday and I’m taking a walk in the park when out of the corner of my eye, I see a young boy in mid air ready to hit the ground. As I look closer, I see that he’s right above quite a large puddle! He hits the ground and it looks like there has been a water explosion! It stuns me and without noticing, a fat raindrop lands in my eye. It takes five minutes to regain my full sight. During that time, I manage to smell wet tar lurking around the air. I can now see clearly and I spot the boy’s raincoat it’s covered in mud! The mud on the jacket looks like a child’s finger painting and has transformed the jacket from bright yellow to a rather dull brown. I turn around to talk to my friend and hear the boy yelling with excitement and then I see him running up to his father once I turn back. As I start walking home, I think back to when the boy was above the puddle and think to myself, wouldn’t that be fun to do.

Holly (9)

Well done Holly!


Sunday, 7 July 2013

Weekend News by Carlos

In the weekend I went to Kelly Tarltons with my cub group.
Instead of writing in my language book I thought that I would do a pic collage about my sleepover.
I hope you enjoy reading about my fun sleepover.

Carlos

Thursday, 27 June 2013

We have Poets in Room 18!





In Written Language we have been writing cinquain poem's.
These poems written by Ishaan, Holly, Brianna and Jason were the best poems of the day. They are about our Inquiry topic, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Well done poets!