Planning our writing

So far this term, our focus during writing time has been to add more detail to our planning, by labelling it.
Then, when we write our stories we can include these exciting topic WOW words into our writing.
Look at our attempts to label our planning so far:

             

              

             

              

How do you plan your writing?

Do you use labels too?

'Magic e

At spelling time this week the Rulers have been learning all about 'magic' e.

We know that when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking.

For example: pin - pine*                           tim - time*

Click on the link below to listen to the song that we have been singing each day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhl6YcrxZQ

Sharing of Cultures About Us Unit

We have come to the end of our "Cultures About Us" Unit.  As our celebration we shared our pamphlets with our buddy class, Room 11.  They also shared their inquiries with us.  At the end we had a fun quiz to see what we had learnt.

Alley cat writing

We have been working hard trying to include more interesting words into our writing, to make our stories more exciting to read.

When other people read our writing we want them to go 'WOW' at the words we have chosen to use in our stories.  (WOW words)

Which are the words in these stories that make you go WOW when you read them?

Do you have a story with WOW words that you could come and share with us?

Didgeridoo Stories

We used Aboriginal Symbols to write a story on our didgeridoo's.  This is a small sample of some below.

Making a quilt - ing spelling chunk

The spelling chunk in Room 3 this week has been 'ing'.

Our poem this was week was called 'Night-time is for Dreaming'.

Jill Eggleton, the Author of this poem  has used many words with the 'ing' spelling chunk.

This morning after re-reading this poem, we talked about what we dream about.

We drew pictures of our dreams in hexagon shapes.

Brooke dreams about mermaids swimming in the sea.

Ben dreams about living in a cruise ship on the sea.

Jazz dreams about fairies watching the foxes in castles.

Chase dreams about being an All Black rugby player.

We cut out our hexagon shapes carefully and then fitted them together to make a 'Dream quilt'.

What do you like to dream about?

Reading with our 'Furry Friends' in Room 3

This term in Room 3 we are trying to read to ourselves for longer at Reading Time.
To help us, we have been joined by some 'Furry Friends'.

When it is time to read to ourselves, we choose a 'Furry Friend' to read to.

We choose a different 'Furry Friend' every day.

Sometimes we take our 'Furry Friend' with us to read to our buddy.

Do you have a 'Furry Friend' that you like to read to?