Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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
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!
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