Wonder Character Art

Here are four of our awesome Character Traits artworks based on the characters in the book, Wonder. We used lots of our reading comprehension strategies to summarise our chosen character. You can see more examples on our Wonder page! Artworks will continue to be added as students finish them in their iLearning time.

Via by Maddison

Auggie (August) by Taylor

Summer by Mary

Jack Will by Liam

Tyrone's Summarising of Earthquake

This is Tyrone's summarising comic strip of the story Earthquake by Lynn Davis. The story is based on true events in the Christchurch Earthquake, 4 September 2010. I really like how Tyrone summarised the story and his amazing detailed sketches.

It is our first Student Work of the Week for 2013. This is a new feature / label on The Tree of PRIDE. What do you think?

Key Words: Moments in the Holidays

Mr Moriarty: baby, son, Leo
Ben: Coromandel, Waitomo Caves, Hahei
Marcus: Wii, iPad, Clifton
Zeb: bleeding, teeth, three weeks
Teva: Samsung, tablet, Thursday
Joshua: Hamilton, crashes, drifts
Henry: Taupo, splashes, one-ski
Liam: Mahia, climbing, Grandparents
Ellis: Sweden, cousin, happy
Inderpreet: phone, cousin, Auckland
Shivom: medicine, tummy, school
Ollie: Mangakino, fishing, Subway
Hemani: Sky Tower, travelling, 2 o'clock in the morning
Hannah: jumped, waterfall, exciting
Bree: Christmas, sick, annoyed
Tracey: Porangahau, steep hill, motorbikes
Olivia: Havelock Pools, guinea pigs, movie
Emma: wheelchair, Auckland, plane
Zach: dairy, bike, bought
Tyrone: cousins, outside, came over
Nakita:  hospital, baby, dog park
Nikitah: windy, climbing, holiday
Lily: died, dog, holiday
Dylan: sister, 24 years old, played
Crighton: Rainbow's End, Auckland, Fearfall
Elijah: cousin, Auckland, holiday
Jessica: shopping, Wellington, Te Papa
Cameron: wedding, ring~bearers, ushers
Imaan: major surgery, baby

We are learning to summarise using key words. They are often nouns. Here is a video with students from Room 16 acting out the key words of one of the group members. Can you guess their key words? Enjoy!



Key Words from the Holidays from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.
Music: Where I'm From by the Digable Planets

Pen Pals!

Wordle of our document!

Today we created a Google document to share with our new pen pals in the USA! Click on the link if you want to check it out. They start their school year on Wednesday because they are just finishing their summer holidays. We are pretty excited that we get a pen pal to share stuff with! We can't wait, most of us have never had a pen pal, none of us have had one from America. It will be like getting a new friend that we have never had before!

Summarising with Comic Life

Check out Tyler and Parris's awesome summaries of their reading texts using the Comic Life program. They did a great job!

The ANZAC Button by Parris

Killer Plants by Tyler

Literature Circle

The video below is a snippet of The Droids in their Literature Circle. I am very impressed with how they discuss their book Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

Here is an extract from the audiobook:

Here are links to student blog posts on their literature circle:

Felicity

Natasha
Brody
Felicity's Movie Maker Post
Natasha's Movie Maker Post

Where does our rubbish go?

 

Casey summarising.

Courtney summarising.

Lachlan summarising.

WALT: Summarise

Pluto Summarising from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

The Ewoks reading group read an interesting report, The Problem with Pluto by David Hill today. We are learning to summarise and I thought they did great job summarising the important facts in the report.

Ewoks Reading Group