What we did during Book Week

As Amy said in the previous post, Book Week was a week of fantastic celebration of books.  We had fabulous guests and fun activities in the classroom. 

 

This is our "You be the Judge" board.  On the board were some adjectives that described books.  What we had to do was write down titles of books that we have read that matched the descriptions.  It was a good way for us to discover new books that we haven't read. 

 We learned about Haiku poems this week and we wrote Haiku poems about books.  

Haiku poems are Japanese poems with 17 syllables. 

 

 

 

 

This is Clifford.  He comes to visit us every time we have book week.  

He brought some books for Mr Pareanga, our Pirate, to read to us.  

Clifford chose the book for us.  Itwas about a brave little watchdog.  

It was a fantastic story that made all of us laugh. 

Book Week!

This week is Book Week. Today we had to dress up as our favourite book characters. On Monday a famous artist and also an author called Stu Duval came to visit Point View. He told us an amazing story called Deep Ark 6. The following day we had a terrific lesson with Stu on cartooning. It was awsome! Miss Lee was the guest reader we all enjoyed the book! Thank you Miss Lee! :)
Written by Amy 

Be Funky!

Today is the last day of term.  It has been an awesome term full of great challenges.  The digital camera captured many of those fantastic moments and we are very grateful.  Yesterday, we had a bit of fun with the photos using Befunky, an online photoshop tool.  You can see all the photoshopping we did on the student pages on our wiki. 

Diamante Poems

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Diamante poem is...
A poem that is shaped like a diamond.
You can have heaps and heaps of different kinds of diamante poems.
In Room 18 we wrote our own opposite diamante poems.
We collected our ideas and wrote them down.
In the ICT suite we got together with
Our partners and came up with
A diamante poem ourselves.

                                                              During lunchtime I (Paige)

came up with my own
Diamante poems.
I am now going
to share them.



Dawn to Dusk

Dawn
Beautiful, bright,
Shining, dripping, glistening,
Sun, cloud, moon, stars,
Lighting, prowling, sleeping,
Scary, dark
Dusk

School & Home

School
Noisy, dramatic,
Playing, sharing, daring,
Pupils working, studying homework,
Sleeping, waking, watching,
Peaceful, loving,
Home

Winter to Summer

Winter
Frosty, chilly,
Shivering, shuddering, freezing,
Gloves, beanies, t-shirts, beach,
Warming, boiling, shining,
Sunny, hot
Summer

By Paige

Self-Portraits

Yesterday we created self-portraits.  First we practised drawing ourselves a few times with a pencil.  Miss Ahn timed us each time so we would not focus too much on the details but the whole picture.  We also practised non-stop drawing.  Non-stop drawing is when you draw an entire picture without lifting the pencil until the drawing is finished.  This made our portraits look pretty funny.  For our final copy, we used vivids without drawing a pencil sketch.  It was hard because we could not make any mistakes, but it made us think about our picture on the paper before we started drawing.  Here are the finished products.  Click on the picture to see the larger version of it.  Enjoy!  We are very proud of our portraits.  

Mean, Median, Mode

Today in class we talked about what mean, median and mode are. Then we played some games to help us understand what they are and how to work them out. Here is the game:

Christchurch Earthquake Recounts on Glogster

For the last few weeks, we have been looking at different articles and video clips of the Christchurch Earthquake.  We spent some time thinking about how scary it would have been for the school children during the earthquake.  We imagined ourselves in their shoes and wrote a recount about the earthquake experience.  We published them on an online tool called 'Glogster.'  Please visit the student pages on our wiki to have a look at them. To see the full view version of it, you must put your mouse over the word 'Glogster' and click on 'View Full Size.'

Here is a sample of the recount written by Paige, Kate and Kaitlin: