Captain Quake - retold by Sam, Chayse and Michael

Captain Quake retold by Lachie, Siena and Claudia

Captain Quake retold by Ameya, Darren and George

Captain Quake retold by Charlie and Luke

Captain Quake retold by Sullivan and Taffy

Captain Quake retold by Georgie and Katie

Captain Quake - retold by Cailtin, Charlotte and Brooklyn

Captain Quake retold by Callaghan, Maia and Zoe

Magic Finger Lights

This term we have red, white, blue and green LED finger lights to help us focus on our proof reading during writing time.  
Soon we will be fantastic proof readers :)

Quiet Writing Time

Adjectives

mum flipped the pancake but by Darren

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Punctuation Points

Last week during story writing I introduced a new idea for punctuation.  ( from David Mitchell)
Every time the children use a full stop, comma, capital letter, exclamation mark, question mark and speech mark correctly in their stories they receive points.
Last weeks TOP 6 PUNCTUATION POINTS  leaders are:

Gemma
Catlin
Hamish
Kate
Maddie
Nivae
Liam

Well done :)

Advertising

We have been looking at ads. We have noticed differences in fonts, colour, size, content, information, layout and also the level of interest.
Have  a look at some of the ads we have made, do our ads make you want to go out and buy the - Jet-Propelled Air Pack or the Robo-Tidier??


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Soccer recount

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Soccer recount

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The story of Persephone - retold by Room 19 - part 1

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Persephone - part 2

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Persephone - part 3

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Our writing and thinking activity for today.

What do you predict this video will be about?   

 a fish that barks, a fish that thinks, facts about the fish, might be a fish with hiccups, a fish that talks, fast swimming fish, it eats other fish, has 4 fins       

How did the music make you feel?  

frightening music, suspicious about the fish, felt a bit tense, made me think the fish was horrid, scared, excited, feel funny, feel what is going to happen now?, don't know what will happen, strange 

Why do you think they pick music like that?  

because they wanted people to wonder and people to think what will happen, makes it more interesting, the music went slow when the cat was moving slow and then when the cat got faster the music got faster, music made you think something bad might happen, music to make you a wee bit scared, music to sound like the animals were moving, to make us wonder, sneaky music.  

Were our predictions close, correct or completely wrong?    CORRECT - a fish that barks, fish that thinks, fast swimming, fins 
CLOSE - fish that talks ( noise)  
NOT QUITE CORRECT- facts about fish, eats other fish, fish with hiccups     

What was surprising?  

when the fish barked, that the fish didn't get eaten, the fish scared the cat away, fish was waiting for the cat to put his head in, the cat didn't know what was going to happen, the creepy music and the way it made us feel 
       

 What was funny?  

the music, the cat running away, fish barking, cat getting a fright, cat putting his head in the bowl, most of it      
          

Were your predictions the same as ours?

What did you think of the video?

Did you get a fright when the fish barked?