Pet Day - What a blast!

Can you share one funny, weird, strange or wacky story from Pet Day? This week - try to improve our intention of sounding like we're talking and not reading from our books.

Still write a first draft though, it helps us know what we're going to sy in advance - another one of our criteria. We can't wait to hear about your day!

Tribute for Mr McCaw!

Here's our voicethread for Mr McCaw. We're practising how to give speeches and this is our chance to get better at knowing what we will say without reading it out loud.

Buddy Reading in Room 1

Buddy Reading in Room 1 from mark herring on Vimeo.

We paid a visit to Room 1 in Term 3 to practise our oral language focus - reading out loud with expression and clarity.

Reading with expression

We're going to learn how to read with fluency and expression. Let's watch this talking book and see what makes a great reading! We'll add the criteria below the vid.

fotobabble for your Problem Solving Hero

Once you've written and seen me or Mrs Wilcox you can record your problem solving hero story on this - fotobabble. Make your hero, take a screen shot, upload the pic into fotobabble and record your story as audio with the picture.

Then you can upload your fotobabble of the hero to your new blog!

Ryan's Thinkers Keys!

Today for Pow Wow Pals we started using Tony Ryan's thinkers keys. You can see the PDF of them on our 'Thinkers Tools' page. Here are a few ideas we came up for the 'Different uses' key.

Red nose
- a top secret spy disguise
- a light bulb shade
- a pin cushion
- a sponge -the foam ones
- a pet ant boat
- a car wheel
- a reindeers nose

A yellow raincoat
- a kite
- a whip
- a parachute
- a blow up ball, stitched together
- a big yellow blob monster!
- a safety jacket for a pony on the road.

The beginnings of GE TV News

Today we started looking at what makes a great TV News show. Here's our first success criteria to help us plan our show for next week. Each group of 3 or 4 is planning to present a news presentation on the topic - 'What makes our school cool!'

There are two parts to our criteria - the planning phase and the presenting phase. Over the next few days we're hoping to use the criteria to make a fantastic first screening.

It will be broadcast live over the net, using ustream, and also recorded for our blogs...in case you miss the broadcast time. Watch this space!