World Famous in NZ!

We are currently learning how to use key words to take notes  - we used Sarah Walker's life journey so far as the example.  Check out the ideas we have come up with.

You can find out more about Sarah on her official website:  http://www.sarahwalker96.com

Creative sentence starters!

As we are writing our own autobiographies we are trying to come up with some interesting sentence starters to engage our readers.  Feel free to post your suggestions in the comment box below!

Descriptive writing using Glogster

Just another idea for when you are publishing your writing work - check out Glogster!

Describing Characters

Please watch the following clip and describe one of the key characters in this short film.  Think carefully about the key features of the character (personality, appearance, emotions..) that are portrayed in the film. Remember to plan your ideas before drafting.   Happy writing team!

Descriptive Writing Tools

We are currently exploring a range of tools to help us with our descriptive writing.  Check out how PicLit could be a useful tool when gathering ideas and building vocabulary.  Have a go!


See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Detailed Descriptions

We have been writing our own descriptions based on our landscape artwork.  Check out these examples of our work!

Media Monday - Level 5 Reading task

I hope everyone had a brilliant Show Weekend!

The Level 5 Media Monday task is below - click on the link to take you to the full article.  Please complete the current events summary sheet and then select 4 new terms from the article to use for the word investigation chart.  Remember to glue both of these sheets in and write your learning intentions in your book before starting.

Learning Intentions:

•  to read and summarize a detailed newspaper article
• to understand more complex vocabulary