Jade's Storybird Book

Storybird

We have been using Storybird to create picture books this week - this was a really fun way of writing and publishing our work. The beautiful illustrations gave us some really good ideas for our writing. Have a read of some of our work here!

Ben - The Love Prank
Jack - The Wildest Pet
Max - The Wildest Pet 

Describing a process - writing

Click on your link to watch the video of your process. Have a go at following your video and completing the task. Then do the task again, with one partner photographing each step. Print your photos and stick them on the process board under your name.

Max and Byron
Jakob and Ben
Jade and Charlotte
Taylah and Jack

How do we remember the Anzacs?

Here are the links you need for the investigation stations.

Station 1
The Anzac Poppy

Station 2
Otago's War Memorials
Online Cenotaph
Lighting up the Wellington War Memorial

Great White Shark

The Orca

The Golden Eagle

Wordshake

Have a go at Wordshake! How many words can you make in 3 minutes?!

Who is the world's greatest predator?

Who do YOU think is the world's greatest predator? Here are the links to help you research your chosen predator.

Great white shark video
Great white shark fact file

Wolf video
Wolf fact file

Orca video
Orca fact file

Crocodile video
Crocodile fact file

Golden Eagle video
Golden Eagle fact file

Giant Hornet video
Giant Hornet fact file

Lion video
Lion fact file

Descriptive Writing

What do you think of our descriptive writing film? We were inspired by Charlie Chaplin videos like "The Lion's Cage" and learned a little about silent movies. We took the paragraphs that we had written from the point of view of some objects like rulers, scissors and books and used an app called ChatterKid to make them "speak their thoughts." We added some descriptions of a day in a boring classroom and then turned our videos into a film in the style of Charlie Chaplin's, using effects like black and white, aging the film and piano music. Did it make you laugh?! Did you like our acting?!

Lighting Up The Dark - Descriptive Writing

Watch this video of the highlights of the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival - can you see any similarities to your reading book "Lighting Up The Dark"?



Write a short descriptive piece on this video, using the writing in the book as a guide. Brainstorm descriptive words and similes before you begin.

Descriptive Writing Stations

Clue: Find 3 across, 2 up in a grid of cubby holes

Descriptive Writing Stations

Clue: Find a tray for a hippo

Descriptive Writing Stations

Clue: Find a trophy for a champion

Descriptive Writing Stations

Clue: Find another book by the same author as "Lion Adventure"