Congratulations Jack and Oliver

for completing the first 'StoryBird' Picture Books...

We will all enjoy using this online tool as part of our literacy programme.

Ice cream to the rescue by JackMcCabe on Storybird

Landing on planet Superhero by room182012 on Storybird

Certificate Winners Week 9

Even More 25 Night Readers - Fantastic

Smart Box

As part of our unit on 'how do we learn best' we created individual identification cards to go into our 'room 18 smart box.' On the identification card there was....

1. photo

2. what smarts we are

3. house colour

4. what we would like to do when we grow up

Currently, this box is travelling around the school to different classrooms. Room 22 were so proud of our efforts that they all wrote letters to us. Have a listen to a few examples of what they wrote.

Botanic Gardens Afternoon

What a wonderful, sunny day we had at the Botanic Gardens last Thursday. It was great learning outside in the park, especially having Park Rangers to teach us about the environment. Our activities were...

• take a blind folded friend on a tree walk and describe the tree
• bug and insect hunt with a microscope
• tree and insect game with our parents
• puppets and story - learning about keeping the park clean

Thank you to all the wonderful parents for helping transport us all over to to the Botanic Gardens and helping out with the groups!!

Certificate Winners Week 8

More Fabulous Readers - 25 Nights Reading!!

'StoryBird' Fun

Meet My Friends by room182012 on Storybird

In week nine, children will be learning to use the 'StoryBird' website - http://storybird.com.

They will be completing the "Meet My Friends" story (above) in pairs. They need to drag and drop different characters into the page and write a couple of sentences about each in the text box that comes up.

For this 'StoryBird', they will be using the illustrator, Paul McDougall. He can be found by clicking on the "Meet My Friends" story and then click on illustrator, Paul McDougal. If they wish to save because they have done a great job, please make sure that they do not publish their work. Keep it unpublished until it has been checked at school and then it will be published.Our Class Login and PasswordLogin - room182012Password - stalbans18
25 Nights Already What Outstanding Reading

Certificate Winners Week 7

Certificates Week 6

What Ways Do We Learn Best?

Visual Language

This term we are exploring the different features of picture books. When reading stories at home you could talk about the....

- Author / Illustrator
- Layout
- Size of text and pictures
- Amount of text in relation to picture
- Use of colour
- Special effects e.g. construction, pop ups, kinesthetic
- Purpose: entertain and inform
- Audience

Last week we read 'Our Big Blue Sofa' by Tim HopGood. We created our own imaginary stories about where we would travel to on the big blue sofa. This week we will create a textured picture to accompany our writing.

Towards the end of term we will write an ending to a story that Miss Campbell has started. Using 'StoryBird' we will add text and characters to the website using different features of picture books.

Investigate 'StoryBird' at home.

http://storybird.com

Certificates

Week 5

Week Three

Tatsumi Is The Teacher

We all enjoyed watching Tatsumi making an origami bed out of paper. Have a look at what steps he took below.

The Final Product!

Then It Was Our Turn At Making a Fish....

Cameo Writing

Multi Skills

This term we are learning about Jump, Skip and Run. We are really lucky to have an expert teaching us new skills. In week 8 we will be travelling to Mairehaui Primary school for a fun afternoon with other schools.