Alice's Margaret Mahy Fotobabble

Have a listen to Alice's fotobabble about Margaret Mahy!

Online Creative Writing

Here is the link you need to help you do some writing!

Interactive Story Guide

Senior Olympics tomorrow!

Hey Room 9,

Don't forget to come prepared tomorrow for our Senior Olympics morning! You need to come dressed up in colours that represent the country you have been given. Can't remember which country you had? Look below:

Red house members:
England - Molly, Jack M and Hamish
Japan - Alice and Matthew

Blue house members:
Argentina - Georgia G, Scott and Jackson
France (not Scotland like it said on your notice!) - Emily, Macaulay and Hoani

Green house members:
South Africa - Georgia L, Sam and Anja
Ireland - Brooke, Rob and William

Gold house members:
Brazil - Lucy, George and Callum
Australia - Millie, Jack G and Cameron

See you tomorrow!

The Olympic Creed

I was just checking out the insandouts blog and they had a post about The Olympic Creed. Do you know the Olympic Creed is? Well here it is:

"The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well"

The insandouts thought the video below was a fantastic example of the Olympic Creed and we have to agree!

Some Olympic Links!

Click on the links below to take you to some websites about the Olympics.

PV Olympics Wiki
Olympic Mascots London 2012

Virtual Incredible Science 2012

Over the next couple of days we will be checking out the Virtual Incredible Science website. This website has lots of interesting and fun science activities and tomorrow we will be watching some science live!

Click on the link below:
Incredible Science

Georgia L's Fotobabble

Voki wouldn't work on our class iPads so Georgia L (and Alice!) were A+ Adaptable and created Fotobabbles about Margaret Mahy instead.

Jack M's Voki

George's Voki

Cameron's Voki

Jackson's Voki

Millie's Voki

Matthew's Voki

Anja's Voki

Hamish's Voki

Rob's Voki

Anna's Voki

Today we made Voki's about the death of Margaret Mahy - here is Anna's.

More show not tell!!

By William

By Lucy

Hoani and Molly's "Showing Not Telling"

By Molly

By Hoani

Show Not Tell!

This week during writing time we have been working on giving our readers clues rather then telling them exactly what is happening.

We read "Beans" by Patricia Grace which has a part about a boy playing hard during his rugby game. We thought about a time when we have played hard. We did lots of visualising to help us remember this time and then we wrote about it.

We still have a bit to work on but here are some of our first attempts at showing rather than telling our readers what is happening.

By Jack G

By George

By Jack M

By Anja

Movie Making - Genre Continued

Here are two other movie previews we watched yesterday. What genre would these be?

Movie Making - Genre

Yesterday we started our new Movie Making unit. We got into our filming groups and we talked about how there are different genres of movies. We watched some movie previews and tried to come up with the best fit genre for them.

Here is one of the previews we watched. What genre do you think it is?

Exciting News!

Hello Room 9!

I have exciting news that I couldn't wait until the start of term to tell you - I have to tell you now!!

We are so lucky! We are getting some iPads for Term 3!

I know I can't wait to use them! Can you think of some educational and creative ways we could use them in our classroom? Leave me a comment if you think of something!