Our first real blog entry for 2012

Today’s blog entry is brought to you by Ben, Angala, Michael, Felix, Ocean and Kassie.

At the start of the term we began a Dr. Seuss booklet of work as part of our author study. Mrs Colliss brought in a box full of his books; my favourite book was the ‘Grinch that Stole Christmas’. The whole class loved the booklets and enjoyed the learning involved.

In the booklet there were lots of activities involving Dr Seuss, like a chart which showed the books we read, a drawing sections were you drew your favourite character…

A quiz section and my favourite part, which was the adapted poem. I wrote a Voldemort rap, featuring Harry Potter. – Ben.

We started off the year with an awesome shared book. Mrs Colliss had been recommended the book ‘Gangsta Granny’ by David Walliams. It had been short listed for the ‘Roald Dahl Funny Prize’ so we knew it was going to be a winner.

It was an exciting story about school boy Ben and his granny, who was an international jewel thief…

We all thoroughly enjoyed it, so much that we are now reading another book by the same author, ‘Mr Stink’. We’ll tell you about that one soon.

 At the start of the term we made a writers notebook. We did a title page and some of us used lettering books to make them look awesome. On the next page we created a collage, cutting out magazine pictures and photos, which we based on things we liked. We did a list of the things we love as well as a list of things we dislike. We have recently added a page about things we wish for and one other page called things we would save. We add to these when we have any spare and time and have finished all our other work. 

We created these notebooks so if we are stuck for writing ideas; we have heaps of ideas in our book. The overall theme of the notebooks so far is ourselves. – Kassie.

I am going to tell you all about our passion wall. A passion wall is a wall displaying the top three things that each member in the class is truly passionate about. The most people put soccer as their number one passion, the second most popular was videogames. – Michael.

At the start of the year the first piece of art we did was our sea creatures. Everyone enjoyed it because we got to choose any sea creature we wanted. First we used chalk to create the outline, we used pastel to colour our creature, background and border. The last step was to use black dye, which dissolved the chalk and created a black outline. Don’t they look flash! – Angala

Throughout the week we have been reading a picture book, Stellaluna. It’s about a baby bat that got attacked by a ferocious owl, she fell in a birds nest and got taught how to behave like a bird. Stellaluna found this hard. At the end Stellaluna is reunited with her mother. Room 13 found this story really enjoyable and learnt interesting facts about bats and the life lesson we took from the story was, ‘don’t change the way you are.’ – Ocean.

Next week we are heading off to camp. We have been very excited get prepared. In class we have been very busy doing camp activities, sorting groups and going over the expectations. It’s going to be great!

We will tell you more next time. - Felix.