Room 12's baking soda and vinegar volcano

The volcano exploded and it shot out red food colouring like a real volcano. I like the volcano because it looked like real lava. - Suryanshu

The volcano blasted and fizzed out like red soup and it splashed in the tray. - India-Rose

 I watched the volcano and it exploded and the baking soda and the vinegar made it fizzy and I loved it! - Sophie

The volcano exploded red. It smelled gross but I smelled it. - Daisy

The lava blasted like a roar and it was like a real one. It was fun. - Sage

I saw the volcano explode and it was red and it had clay. It was nice to see the volcano and I loved it. - Gabriella

The volcano exploded. - Bryson

I saw the volcano explode and it scared me. - Poppy

The volcano burst lemonade. - Eain Si

Similes

Today the sky is as blue as the ocean.
The temperature feels like warm porridge.

Room 12's WOW day

Today was our WOW day and we celebrated our wonderful writing with all the visitors who came to our classroom.

 

Room 12's books

We went outside with chalk and wrote a sentence about what makes us smile.

Mums and Dads joined in too.  

Thank you everyone for coming to our WOW day!

 

WOW day is on Tuesday 20th November

Room 12 would like to invite you all to come and join in our writing WOW celebration.  

Please note that 'Wow day' is on TUESDAY 20th November, not Wednesday as stated in the invitations that came home on Friday.

Apologies for the mistake. 

WOW day is on TUESDAY 20th November from 1.30 - 2pm.

 

WOW day is on TUESDAY 20th November from 1.30 - 2pm.

 Everyone welcome!

Mr Punctuation

 

How many can you name?

What do they mean?

The parts of a writer

If I had a sailboat...

The children in Room 12 decided they would like to make a sailboat after reading a recent picture book.

Ms Anderson found some old banana boxes at her house and they quickly became transformed into sailing creations.

 Our imaginations took off and we decided to write an imaginative story to entertain each other and any visitors who popped into Room 12.

We used strong verbs and adjectives to paint a picture in the reader's mind and then proof-read our writing carefully using the checklist.

After we'd fixed up our writing to ensure the reader could read it, we published it with our best printing onto a page for our class book.

Then we joined eachother in and had a wonderful time sailing and enjoying the waves in Room 12.

Netball with Mrs Scott

Today we had a netball session with Mrs Scott.

 We practised dodging people as we walked around.

We bounced, threw, and caught the ball and even did some target practice with a cone.

 

 

We used verbs to describe to our friends and families what we did at netball.

I liked throwing the ball because I am good at throwing.

I bounced the cone over and it was funny.

 

Our holiday highlights

We used our senses of seeing, feeling and tasting today to describe our holiday highlights.

Here are a few examples of what we wrote.

I tasted spaghetti bolognaise for dinner.

walked to my Dad's shop.

I saw a tiger at Orana park and I fed the giraffes
 and  it was fun. And after that I went to
see some more animals.

 

mountain climbing in the slippery snow and ice.



Homonyms - words that sound the same

We wear sunhats when we go outside.
Do you know where my sunhat is?

Your sunhat is here!
Can you hear the music?
She likes to brush her hair at night.
The hare hopped away into its burrow to sleep.

Drumming descriptions

Room 12 wrote descriptions of the drumming show so everyone at home could know what it was like.

Adjectives and similes were used to help paint a picture in your minds.

She banged the drum and she used glow sticks.

I like the water drum. It looked like a flashing light.

I like the water drum because it made rainbow lights.

I like the African drum because it looks nice.



The water looked like flashing.
It looked wow to me.
It seemed like magic.
I was.....

going around the world.
I wish I was one of them.




 





a real dancer because I  love dancing
 very much.

The instruments were as funny as a clown and
I liked the flashes and I danced like...

Click the picture to play the spell and surf game

Remember to use 'magic e' if you hear a vowel saying it's own name.

Click on the picture to start making sentences

The Guinea Pig in our big book likes to gather grass.

 

We thought of lots of activities that we would like to do.

 

What a lot of verbs!

We like to play outside.
               hang on the bars
               slide down the slide
               pretend
               splash
               roar
               skateboard
               sing
               juggle
               imagine
               run
               help living things
               sing
               fish

Strong verbs

We are learning to use strong verbs in our writing to help us to paint a picture of what is happening. 

eg. The dog plays in the park.        The dog leaps in the park.

Using strong verbs makes our writing more interesting for the reader.

Painting a picture with our words

In writing, we have been learning to paint a picture with our words to describe our sport skills.

We used  as ______ as ______ to help us do this.

Come and have a look at our big book in Room 12 to view more.