Writing in the Second Person

If you thought writing in the second person was only for an instructional text such as recipes, this video clip will open your mind to writing in the second person.

Phonics Song

Kid President - Dreams

Remembrance Day 2014

A thought for the beginning of Term 4...

Genius Hour

Welcome to the beginning of Room 5's Genius Hour for Term 4...

Term 4 we will be exploring our passion with conviction.  For one hour a week students will read, research, plan and design their passion projects.  Students will take on any topic they are passionate about, create a project they can share with the class, the school... the WORLD!

Students will use Trevor Bond Questioning to develop a question related to their passion that they can research.  These will not be simple questions to find an answer easily, these will be inquiry questions, that will lend themselves to create a passion project at the end.

Projects can be media based (movie, slideshow etc), or something physical that they can build, design or create.At the completion of the genius hour timeline these projects will be shared with an audience.  Through the entire process students will be engaged in research, reading notification articles, planning through graphic organisers, writing and reflecting all integral areas of our English curriculum.

One of the Best Motivational Videos I've ever seen...

Powerful and Inspiring...

VIDEO GAME DESRTUCTION

Video Game Destruction ''Conner you have two minutes to get off that Xbox!''shouted Mrs Davison"come on just get to the castle kill that dragon and... YEEEEES!" high score beaten, the laptop reported. "Conner you better be of that thing or you'll get it." Conner was already in bed by the time Mrs Davison had got to the top of the windy staircase. The eerie silence was daunting and was only broken by the occasional pluck of water dripping... Suddenly out of nowhere came a huge monstrous beast ripping through the wall like a dog rips up homework. A thousand bricks flew in all directions and one large brick hit Conner. He ran out of the house with blood streaming out of the gash on his left cheek.Where had this strange thing come from? He started running for the monster had realised he was out of the house. The beast almost had him by the leg until conner put his hands up to protect himself when a huge ray of lava came streaming out of his palm and got the ghastly monster right in the centre of the pupil.  " How did I do that?" he asked himself "Never mind, just RUUUUN!"Another voice came into Conner's ears. Still very confused Conner started running as he had made he beast bring out his worst. As was running he was joined by a...a...a thing of which conner was unsure of. This thing looked human except for a couple of major features. One his ears were huge and pointing towards the sky as if they were being pulled.Two his eyes were the most majestic shade of purple. lastly he had a long tail just like a monkeys pygmy marmosets tail but with strips of blue and yellow.  He looked familiar to Conner as if he had seen him before, but where...?His video game, of course,he played it so much that he knew he was somehow in the game...the gigantic animal roared again breaking the moment of confusion. The beast looked interested in the blood on his face, a carnivore.DUH, it was PROOFENTICEARUSASAUR(proof-en-tice-a-rus-a-saur) the most deadly creature in all video games. The boy,jack,and conner ran into a nearby bush and watched the beast run past." you're not from around here are Ya"said jack catching his breath " This is a video game I have somehow entered"stated Conner"No it's not""yes it is!" They squabbled on like this for a while, in the end Jack realised Conner was right.  So the decided to seek a journey to the centre of the... Whatever this place was, to find the black hole.Conner had explained to jack that in the video game you had to collect tokens  and follow the quest trail to find the black hole which then lead them to the next level, or home in their case. As they were walking along the strangely joyful walk jack bumped into Conner" whoa " said jack with a worried"did you feel that earthquake" conner replied"Yeah " there was a long silence... suddenly a huge explosion from the top of the volcano started a meteor shower. The two boys started to run as fast as their legs could run them. As Conner was running he heard his mum,"Conner, conner" he looked up to see a huge meteoroid coming for him"LOOK OUT" screamed Jack. Conner awoke to the sound of his mum "Conner, conner ,CONNER GET UP,"his eyes a opened and a blurred vision of his mother stood before him." Conner you have school this morning, hurry up!" he sat up, where was the beast, all the beautiful trees and where was Jack... " where is everyone" he said to his mother." " I think you were having a bad dream, you were kicking and screaming and saying !JACK! all the time." "I was in my video game mum and the PROOFENTICEARUSASAUR was there." "well even if you were you need to get up now and get ready" At school he parked his bike and was just about to leave when Jack stuck his head around the corner" you did good mate,I look forward to more Grand adventures!" Conner smiled at him,Turned around and walked off knowing he was the luckiest kid in the world, well at the moment while there was no beasts chasing him... By Jenaya  25/07/2014

Energiser for Today

Can you...

3 x RECALLS - what are 3 things you can remember from the day, new learning?

2x INSIGHTS - 2 new pieces of info or "a-ha" moments

1 x QUESTION - what else do you need to know.

2D and 3D Shapes

Shapes from Yusni Amir

Fish Philosophy - Reading Contract

This week we are looking at The Fish Philosophy that is a positive program at our school.

Watch the video...

Read the four Fish Principles...

THINK...












Choose one Principle and create a catch phrase that explains what it means...

Now create a Fish Poster Presentation that includes your chosen Principle and Catch Phrase to be displayed in the classroom.