Archives for Writing
Visual Poet
As part of our language rotations this week we are using the app ‘Visual Poet’. Today’s group did a good job and found it easy to use. Calista submitted...
Our Haiku Decks – A Term in Review
We have all now had the opportunity to use the Haiku Deck app to create a visual image about Term 1. I haven’t been able to embed them into...
Our Journeys
We have been working hard on increasing our knowledge of latitude and longitude this term. For a writing task, the students were asked to create a journey and list...
The Literacy Centre Visit
Last week we were fortunate to have the Literacy Centre visit our school. One of the books we were introduced to was ‘The Little Refugee’ written by Anh Do...
Character Traits
This week in Language we are building upon our knowledge of characters and are looking how we are introduced to characters and the specific qualities they have. To start,...
Shared Reading – National Numeracy and Literacy Week
As part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week we have spent time reading to a Pre-Primary class, participated in a shared writing activity with our creative classmates in Room13...
The Last Viking – Book Week
I am looking forward to finally reading this book today as we have spent a bit of time doing some pre-reading work. One activity that we enjoyed as a...
A Cloudy Lesson
I came across a fantastic language site towards the end of last term called The Literacy Shed One of the pages that really caught my attention had a link...
Descriptive Writing
This term we have been focussing on improving our descriptive writing. To complete our unit, students were asked to write a narrative based on the topic – Out in...
Class Poem
Last week we used the ‘jigsaw’ method to create a class poem. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it. A HARSH CONTINENT Sun...