ATIONS, By Shel Silverstein

The Tigers reading group looked at the poem ATIONS, by Shel Silverstein.  They used the ipad to take pictures of each of the ation words.  Once they were happy with their pictures they used imovie to put them in the right order and record themselves reading the poem.  Here is the finished movie.

Monsters of the Deep, by Marshal

Marshal has written a powerful description of a Fangtooth. He has worked hard to include emotive vocabulary that paints a picture in the reader's head.

Dancing Straws

Last week Room 4 did a sound experiment as part of our Inquiry topic.  Marshal has written an explanation to tell you what happened and why.

Moving Straws from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Complex sentences

For writing some of the students in room 4 have been learning to use conjuctions to write complex sentences.  Here are some of the sentences we came up with.

The white unicorn looked at the moon as he slid down the mountain and snapped his horn.
Azuredream

The white unicorn looked at the moon because his friend was trapped on it. 

The white unicorn looked at the moon while dancing on the mountain edge. 

The white unicorn looked at the moon as it slowly drifted down while the sun was rising. 

Superhero Day

On Friday we had a superhero mufti day to raise money for the year 7/8 camp.  We had a lot of superheroes protecting our school and it was a great day.  Take a look at the pictures to see what we got up to.

Waitangi Day

This week we have been learning about Waitangi Day and the Treaty.  We all had alot of questions about why we have Waitangi Day so we got into groups and did some research using books and Google.  We then used ipads and made a movie to share what we had learnt.  Here are our first two movies.

Waitangi Day Group 2 from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Waitangi Day from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.