Sunday 15 September 2013

Stretching sentences

Stretching sentences

Today we were working at stretching our sentences to add detail in a concise and effective way.  How do you think we went???

The wonkey key
What =
The wonkey key was found 
who =
The wonkey key was found by the young boy
where =
The wonkey key was found by the young boy jammed into the rusty door
when =
The wonkey key was found by the young boy jammed into the rusty door after the building was abandoned 

Rachel, Trent and Winston


Stretching ourselves as well as our sentences

Thursday 1 August 2013

Recycling Posters

With Mrs. Fowler we made recycling posters. We had to try and convince the reader to recycle. Here are some of the posters.

OUR OCEANS

This Term room 3’s Inquiry is about our oceans. It is still related to our print on the planet. We are looking at the good the bad and the ugly. As part of our inquiry we are visiting the Maritime Museum for a day. At the moment we are writing reports about a famous person related to the ocean. Some examples are AbelTasman and Jacques Cousteau. 

The DingBat

In room 3 we have a class activity called Dingbats
   
You have to guess what the saying in the box is here is an example
The answer to this card is book ends because it has the two end letters of the word book. Here are some for you to try.
2           3    4   
Make sure to post your answers in the comments!

Thursday 18 April 2013

Scary Stories on Garageband

Following on from writing our scary stories (which are published on this blog), we used Garageband to record reading our scary stories and composed music to create a scary atmosphere to enhance our stories. We hope you enjoy them.

Deen and Harry Laura and Tapaswi Annie and Celina William and Connie Meadow and Isabella Jamie and Janet Blake and Caleb Lauren and Kyla William M and Cory

Thursday 11 April 2013

Spotlight Poems

Room 3 wrote poems about spotlight at camp.
Our W.A.L.T entertain our reader by recounting spotlight.
Our S.C. Use descriptive language, include metaphors and similes, use other language features. Here are some of our examples.

Above me trees cheering people on silently, silently because they don’t want to wake their other tired friends. The Man in the Moon with his flashlight yelling 1, 2, 3, torch on as the gentle breeze carries his voice as far and fast as it can. Unlike Emma nobody tagged him. People peeking prudently from their places while Emma searches the forest floor. I hear giggling thumping and leaves shuffling about. The stars like tour guides are showing us where to go. People diving into an Olympic swimming pool filled with leaves because they hadn’t reached a tree, Emma’s torch searching for us in the darkness.

Below me the trees have chosen children they want to reach Emma. They are tripping the others with their long twisty roots, and moving their arms so they are in your way. The leaves running around with the help of the west wind, running because your weight would break every bone in their body. Rocks try to stop us by appearing in our path. They are going out of their way to make us slip back down the steep slope.  A bug crawling round as I reveal where it hides while trying to hide from Emma’s blinding torch that picks us out with the light it provides. I’m running faster than a cheetah, flying like the wind with each step I take towards Emma and victory at the top.

In front of me the towering pine. It’s bark digging into my skin like blunt needles. Its root as slippery as wet soap. The blade of light cuts through the forest searching like a hound dog for me. I notice that my classmates elbow is sticking out. I want to warn him but I would have to give myself away. The light comes round and Emma notices his elbow. The torch goes off. 1, 2, 3, Torch on. Nowhere to hide I jump onto the leaves. The crunchy dry leaves are rough against my chest. Twigs like soldiers swords poking and prodding me.  Torch Off.

Behind Me dark shadows approaching up the hill as loudly as they dare. Trees getting used like shields protecting us against the light that looks for us and prevent us from tagging Emma. The ropes tripping others and causing them to get caught by eagle eyed Emma. 12 people are out will I be next? I hope not. Heart pounding boom, boom boom. Feet thudding thump, thump thump. I continue up the hill any second now torch off 1, 2, Tag.
 Lauren


Above me the pitch black sky tries to stay hidden while out comes the bright yellow blade like torch of the moon with A flash. The leaves on the trees above me play on the silent tongue of the breeze. The shimmering shine of the full moon gleams on the calm water. The luminous stars above me appear like little dots.

Below me leaves crackling like paper being scrunched up. Twigs slide down the uneven slippery ground. Cicada’s run for their lives, to protect themselves, from getting stepped on. Outcome the gnarled knuckles of the trees roots. The sticks on the ground scratch my legs as if they’re attacking me.

In front of me I see kids running to find a tree. I can see Emma’s eager eyes from five trees away .I see there tree where Emma’s standing and try to make a run for it. In front of me I see Emma, where victory eagerly awaits me.

Behind me I see rocks tumbling down the hill behind I see Adults and children waiting for the three se ends to end, for them to run. I hear children waiting nervously, getting ready to run any second now. As I pat Emma on the back I note that victory is now mine
 Tapaswi

Above Me
The dark night sky is watching as we are playing. Emma’s flaming torch cuts through the tree. The orange moon sparkles into the corner of my eyes. I can hear faint giggles up ahead. The trees sway slowly in the calm breeze. I can see Mrs. Knofflock thumping into trees.
Below Me
My feet crack on twigs. Big hairy bugs crawl on my shoes. Below me the roots try to trip us up. The leaves are slippery.  My feet struggle to grip the ground as I hide behind a tree. The ground shakes like an earthquake.
In Front Of Me
Mrs. Knofflock is smacking Jackshen’s head against a tree. Tree bark is glaring at me. In front of me is the dark gloomy world. Emma is waiting with her torch. I see kids running like a cheetah trying to get to the next tree.
Behind Me
I can hear people running like they are running for their life. Kids whisper from tree to tree. I am almost there 1 2 3 TAG!!! YA!!! I tagged Emma.
Kyla
 


Thursday 4 April 2013

Art Art Art

Room 3 made paintings based on Pablo Picasso’s art. First we sketched our paintings. Then drew them to full size, painted them and used black P.V.A to go over some of the lines. He are some of room 3’s master pieces.

Before we began these paintings we leant about Pablo Picasso. We found out that his paintings had 3 stages the blue period he used colors like blue and green this stage lasted for 3 years. The rose period were he used colors like pink and orange this lasted for 2 years. Lastly the cubism period  this lasted for 10 years! Pablo was born over 120 years ago and his paintings are still famous.

We also did some Picasso art on the computer using a great program called Picasso head it’s really easy to use. You should try it!