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.

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 :)

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.

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!