Gientst by Hudson

This is Gientst the most popular ghost in town most popular for his secret magic carpet which can turn into everything and his potions. That’s what gave him his afro. That is really iconic. He is crazy alright well hopefully he survives. This is the story of Gientst.

Persuasive Writing - Letters to Mr Bradbeer

We have been learning about persuasive writing.  We used the prompt of the new hub to share our ideas with Mr Bradbeer about what we thought would be good things to include in the plans.  Please read our letters to see how we are giving reasons for our ideas.

Information Reports - New Zealand Animals, Birds and Insects

This term we have been investigating how to create information reports.  We have been able to make connections between our reading strategies where we are locating information and then paraphrasing so we can write about these animals.  We have been experimenting with our punctuation (check out how we are using commas!) and using a combination of both simple and compound sentences.

Mr Lewzey helped us create these reports using Thinglink - we were able to make connections with our Cybersmart learning where we found images that we are able to use for our learning.

Hannah:

Tyler:

Tobias:

Roy:

Riley:

Hayley:

Maxim:

Hudson:

John Paul:

Gabby:

Our School Environment - Learning to Use Paragraphs

We have been learning about using paragraphs so we can write some information reports.  The important parts of a paragraph are the following:

1. Main Idea or Topic - this helps our reader understand what our paragraph is about.

2. Detail - these sentences help build on our main idea.

3. Example or Evidence - this information helps our reader make connections with the information in our paragraphs.

We decided that we wanted to try writing paragraphs to help introduce the environment of our school to a visitor.  Mr Lewzey showed us how we could publish these in a special app called ThingLink so we have been able to take photos and add our paragraphs to these.  We hope you enjoy reading them.

Ko:

Lachlan:



Hannah:



Hayley:



Tobias:



Josh:



Tyler:



John Paul:



Hudson:



Fergus:



Gabriel:



David:



Ella:



Roy:



Marawan:



Maxim:

Narrative Introductions - Ruckus

We have been creating some introductions for Ruckus, an animation that we have been watching:

We learned that it is important to do the following in our introductions:

• Describe the setting - where does our narrative take place?
• Describe the characters - who is in our narrative?
• What is the problem - what is happening in our narrative?

Here are our introductions for Ruckus, please leave us a comment!

Description Writing - Our Creature Zoo

Mr Lewzey read us the Gruffalo where we learned that the mouse was giving the other animals in the story a description of the Gruffalo.  Here is a video of the story if you have not heard it before:

We decided that we were going to create our own creature zoo where we were able to write some descriptions of creatures that we made up.  We now know that we need the following parts of a description:

• An introduction to introduce our creature.
• Characteristics to help describe our creature.
• Some information that helps us show our thoughts or feelings about our creature.

Here are our descriptions - we were able to refine these by reading them to others and checking to see if it made sense to our buddies.

We then got to create an picture of our creature to help show our readers what our descriptions could look like if they were to meet them.  Please come into the hub and see our creature zoo if you get a chance!

Lets get into writing for Term 2

Today Mr Lewzey asked us to tell him what we wanted to write about for this term.  Look at all our ideas we have written on the post it notes - we cannot wait to start exploring some of these topics!

Oobleck - Recount Writing

Oobleck - it is a weird mixture!

Look at this video about our oobleck making experience!

As a group, we were really excited to write recounts about our oobleck making experience.  Please look at how we are using our sequence words - first, next, then and finally. 

We have also tried to stretch ourselves with our description writing - which description do you think suits the oobleck best?