Luscious Lounge Lizards to Awesome Apes!

This week we completed our cooperative task to learn about using a variety of sentence types in our writing. Read the post below to learn more about the process we undertook. In the meantime, here are our finished works of art!

By Jason, Carlos, Clayton and Ewan

By Luca, Noey, Connor and Jazmine

By Saffy, Lily and Mikaere

By Nico, Pete, Ella and Chris

By Jamie, Samantha and Samya

By Ana, Lucia, Louis and Jessie

By Eden, Shannyn, Kayla and Amber

Well done Room 3! I think your posters look amazing, and your writing is superb!

Cooperative Writing

The Lounge Lizard

The lush green grass surrounds the forest floor.

The wind whistles through the trees around him.

The leaves rustle and crack as loud as a tree falling.

The lizard's scales look like separate ripples in a green pond.

He heard the birds chirping wildly.

His eyes are like fire.

His scales are as green as the watered grass.

He sits on a ragged branch.

His claws dig into the bark of the tree.

Everything in the forest talked around him.

His bright skin was a chandelier in the broad sunlight.

What will happen when a bug flies by?

What is he looking at?

By an impressive group of writers in Room 3!

In Room 3 we have been learning about POETIC WRITING TOOLS. We have embarked on a cooperative writing task to learn how to use our poetic writing tools effectively (not too little, not too much!). We classified sentences into three different types:

• Fact (using our senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell)
• Emotive (poetic writing tools)
• Thought (opinions, ideas, feelings, I wonder..., rhetorical questions)

Here are some photos of the shared writing Fiona did with us to help us learn about the different sentence types:

Using some amazing National Geographic images we wrote a collection of sentences, published them on white paper and then got together in our group and arranged our sentences to form an amazing piece of poetic writing.

We are now creating incredible posters to display our writing using all sorts of bits and pieces. Stay tuned to see then on our blog and on the wall in our classroom soon!

Here are some pictures Fiona took of us as she caught us focusing on our writing and working cooperatively:

 

SeaWeek March 2013

Our Year 6's went along to the Nelson SeaWeek activities down at the port.
 SeaWeek in nelson on PhotoPeach

Tutorial on using Slideshare.net

Here is the finished tutorial for you Room 3. I hope you have enjoyed presenting your information reports as a PowerPoint and learning to upload them to your blog using Slideshare :)
If it doesn't load below then follow this link

How to use Slideshare

Sample presentation from room3ncs2013

Hi Room 3,
I'm sick today, just making a quick video on how to use Slideshare to upload your PowerPoint.
I hope you are having a great day! 
See you Friday.
Fiona :) 

The Grand Release!