Ride of the Katipo

Bari

Amber

We are coming to the end of our class book "The Ride of the Katipo" by Stu Duval. Today many of the children did some visualising sketches. Here is one by Bari created on the IWB and another by Amber created on a little whiteboard.

Madam Spry Character Hot Seat

Tiger in a Zoo Reader's Theatre

Tiger in a Zoo

Our Literacy Starter this week has been the poem "Tiger in a Zoo". The trailer to the film "Madagascar" really helped us to make connections (text to the text) to the meaning in the poem. These connections helped us to visualise with our five senses and build our understanding of the text.

Good use of your reading strategies Room 18!

Mr M :)

Man's Dominion

Listen to our reader's theatre of this thoughtful poem. Click on the images to see the words clearly.

Onepoto Caves

Summer's flow diagram which summarises how the caves were formed

Circle of Life

Our literacy starter this week has been based around the song "Circle of Life" by Elton John. Here it is for those who want to sing along!

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

We are enjoying our class book "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key". Today we drew quick visualising sketches while we finished chapter 5 "Make a Wish".

Stefan drew his sketch on the Interactive Whiteboard and did an inspiring job.

I Believe I Can Fly

We used the lyrics of R. Kelly's 'I Believe I Can Fly' as the text for our literacy starter. It was nice to have Room 19 in the class. They helped us to make connections and visualise. We used these strategies to help us identify the writer's purpose.

Play the video if you want to sing along!

Mr M :)

Famous 5 Solved Their Mystery

We finished our Famous 5 book and it all ended well for the gang and Wilfred. Raiha drew a neat visualising sketch on the IWB as we read the final chapter. Some of us drew sketches in our language books, while Reanna and Shannon provided great character voices.

I wonder what our next class book will be...

Famous 5 Visualising

Amber drew this outstanding sketch on the Interactive Whiteboard while we were reading Chapter 18 'A Most Exciting Time' from our class book, 'Five Have A Mystery To Solve'. We were all practising our reading strategy of visualising. This means creating a picture in our mind of what is happening in the text. This helps us understand the text better.

Making Connections: Text to World

Yasmin used Comic Life to show her Text to World connection. The Christchurch earthquake has affected us all in some way.
Our love and support for the people of Christchurch will be shown again on Friday, when we have a Red and Black fundraising day.

Making Connections: Text to Self

Summer used Comic Life to show one of the connections she made when reading Twister. Reanna captured the moment with a great photo.

Pania of the Reef

Breanna summarised Pania of the Reef using the interactive whiteboard in the classroom this afternoon. Thanks Breanna for a great model for others to see!

Legend of Te Mata

Key word highlighting by Katherine and Olivia. Summarising comic by Stefan and Jimmy. Both produced using the Interactive Whiteboard!

Enemy at the Gate Summarising

By Jamie



By Hollie

Enemy at the Gate, Chapter 32

Morgan created this wonderful visualising sketch on the whiteboard as we read the final chapter of Enemy at the Gate. We all really enjoyed this book and loved the ending.
Follow the link to visit the author Philippa Werry's website.

Mr M :)

Enemy at the Gate, Chapter 29

Keenan and Annie drew quick visualising sketches on the interactive whiteboard as we read 'Enemy at the Gate' today. Such an exciting and beautiful chapter. Go Tom!

WALT work out meanings of words

Check out Greer's fantastic independent vocabulary work!

Interview with Howard Carter