Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Easter Hat Parade

Check out our amazing hats we made for our Easter Parade!




Mathematics: Counting

We have been learning to read numbers to the billions! Check out our learning...






Evil Sock Agent (by Catherine Baars)

Evil Sock Agent was voted our class's best narrative of the week. The students were required to write an interesting and entertaining narrative using a list of words written on the whiteboard. Some of the words included nappy, agent, socks, pungent etc. Catherine used her imagination and a variety of interesting sentence beginnings and came up with the following...

Sunday, March 28, 2010

In My Teacher's Absence (Imaginative) Recounts

We have been working very hard on writing recounts to inform and entertain our worldwide audience. We were learning to use a variety of different and interesting sentence beginnings, powerful verbs, write our recount in chronological order and in the past tense. Check them out. Enjoy!

Written by Ava

Written by Catherine

Written by Chrishel

Written by Ellie

Written by Hieu

Written by Imogen


Written by Indiah

Written by Jack

Written by Josh

Written by Lucas

Written by Luke

Written by Montana

Written by Nic

Written by Nicholas

Written by Ozzie

Written by Shyanne

Written by Vadim

Written by Caleb

Saturday, March 20, 2010

COMING SOON...

3/4AC have been working hard in their draft writing sessions!

They have written an imaginative recount around the topic "In My Teacher's Absence"

Something to look forward to... ETA: April 02

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Our Craaaaaaaaazy Class

Two Amazing Narratives!

Check out Imogen's and Jack's narratives! They wrote them about their illustrations they drew during the author visit! Check them out!



Adam Wallace... Book Titles

Check out these great books by local author Adam Wallace.

(Melbourne, Australia)

The small books are instructions on how to draw the animal on the cover using rhyming instructions.

The other books are his latest picture books! They are awesome!

Finally, "Better Out Than In" - a collection of some funny, gross stories. We looooooooved hearing some of these!


Check out "Better Out Than In" from the iTunes Store.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAudiobook?id=341012626&s=143460



































Our Questions... and Answers

We had arranged some questions to ask of Adam Wallace about his job being an author and an illustrator.

Check out what we learnt...


Author Visit

On Thursday 25th of February, we had a visit to our school by author and illustrator Adam Wallace. He shared some of his books with us, helped us understand where he gets his ideas from, and then showed us how to illustrate ourselves by following some of his basic instructions.

You may like to try yourselves by watching the video below. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil...

Have fun!

3/4AC Recounts

The children in 3/4AC have been working hard in planning, drafting and publishing recounts to inform and entertain you. Check out their final results!
















More postings are still to come.

Watch this space!

Our Holiday Recounts

The children in 3/4AC have been working hard in planning, drafting and publishing recounts to inform and entertain you. Check out their final results!