Read Aloud Task Room 28

This is further information about our read aloud task as discussed at school and included on the last Home Learning sheet.

Learning intention: we are learning to read a self-selected excerpt from a book aloud to entertain an audience of our peers.

Suggested process
• Select a text you enjoy reading.
• Practise reading different excerpts out loud until you have a piece you feel comfortable with and that takes you between 1 and 2 minutes to present.
• Choose a place to stop that either creates an air of suspense or completes that section of the story.
• Plan a brief introduction to your selection which gives some background information.
• Practise many times, so you are very familiar with the vocabulary, remembering to use appropriate expression and pace.

This 'read aloud' presentation will be given by each member of the class in Week 2 or 3, Term 4

Where did the term go?

Ten weeks have whizzed by and we are about to embark on two weeks of holiday before the final term!

This week all the 3-D athletes have been labelled, sprayed with polyurethane and photographed ready for being presented at the Art Exhibition in week two next term.

Most children have almost completed their author presentation. It is pleasing to see the range of ideas that have been used to show the information.

Today we discussed our environmental questions and stressed the importance of writing subsidiary questions to help with scaffolding the information required to answer their big question. Because the last few weeks have been very busy we are still at the research stage and if the children have time over the holidays to gather any further information that would be great. Next term we will discuss presentation ideas before publishing.

Creating tangrams and then manipulating them to form representations of animals and other objects has been fun and challenging during our ICT time. Look out for these in our next portfolios.

The foldouts related to the novel study that many of you viewed at the conferences are now on display and the children can now spend time reading each others' interpretations of the plot.

Another ICT task completed this week has been the making of a person in the Paint program and the adding of a speech or thought bubble containing the next learning goal that was decided during the conferences. These are also on display.

Look out for updates on Taylor's holiday on his personal Blog.
http://taylor-londontrip.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to visit some of the good learning websites recommended on our Blog if you have some spare time in the holidays.

I am off to WOW...I wonder if their designs will be as good as the ones Room28 created.

Disco Dancing

Field Day Reflections

The B rugby team had a lot of fun through out the day even though we lost every game!!! We improved through out the day and I scored a try.
Callum

The soccer A team had a brilliant time at field day winning two, tying two and losing two placing us seventh on the table.
Max

The soccer C team had a fantastic, fun day, even though we lost all of our games! We definitely improved through out the day. The parents were very supportive the whole time and we are very thankful for them.
Ella

The rugby A team came third at the field day, it was a huge achievement because we were missing four of our players to weight and injuries, and I scored seven tries!!
Niko

The soccer B team won all their pool games (1-0, 1-0, 2-0), but against St Kentigern, in the quarter finals, we lost 3-0. Cameron played brilliantly as a defender and saved many goals.
Joshua B

Three-Way Conferences

Mrs McConnell and Mrs Jamieson are very proud of the way the children in room 28 contributed to the interviews we held this week. It was a new experience for all of us and listening to the way you talked about your learning to your parents we know they too were proud of you.

Thank you parents and children for making the time to be part of the conferences.

More Hyperbole

My friend is so small he could use a drainpipe as a slide.
Taylor

My Grandad's hair is so grey you can mistake it for a storm cloud.
Georgia

The man was so smart he made Einstein look stupid.
Shyam

My sister is so skinny that people mistake her for a pencil.
Lydia

Mrs Bruce's speech was so long that we taped it and sold it on Trade Me for people with sleeping disorders
Joelle

The Drying Room

'The athletes' had a new layer of papier mache two weeks ago and have spent the time since then in the drying room. A further smoother layer was applied on Thursday and the models are now resting again.

Hyperbole Examples

Our learning intention for writing was:
To recognise hyperbole and learn to write examples of hyperbole.

We had lots of fun sketching our ideas and writing hyperbole to match.

Our next learning step is to find opportunities to include relevant hyperbole in our writing.

I grew so tall I could do chin ups on the door frame.
Joelle

My brother is so gullible he will believe you if you tell him the Eiffel Tower is made of licorice.
Mary