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Pen Pals

Room 14 has pen pals. Everyone has someone to write to, some people have two people to write to.We have to set out our writing like a letter with the date and address.We will also get to know about where they come from.

Our first paragraph had to be about ourselves and included our likes and dislikes. It also had to answer their questions. The second paragraph was about our school, mine included my friends, favourite subjects at school and our school camp. Our third paragraph was asking questions that we wanted to know the answer to when they write back.

Room 14 cant wait for them to write back! Its really cool being able to write letters to people because if you think about how often you write a letter to someone it might not be that often, but having  pen pals gives us another person to write a letter too.

Sherman's Struggle

After watching the 'Wing it' video clip from the Literacy Shed, we had to write a newspaper article reporting on the new intention that Sherman had created. Here is Kade's story.


After years of being told he couldn't do it and the death of his father, Sherman has come up with an idea that works just like his father once did."I call it the seaplane" Sherman said. This could be an invention that completes the way of travel for the world."I did this to carry on my fathers work and make him proud and not disappoint him". Who knew that someone from Taupo could build a thing like this. Sherman has said that the night before he came up with the idea he had a dream of some aliens coming and giving him ideas with a device. When we asked him what other inventors should do his reply was "never give up". This may be the biggest invention for 1979.

Pompeii

On Thursday the 27th of March, Room 14 started to work on a piece of writing about a song called 'Pompeii'. 

First of all, we watched a music video about the song Pompeii. After we watched the video, we brainstormed our ideas in our focus writing books. Next we went on the iPads and researched about Pompeii and the Mount Vesuvius eruption. We put all our facts into a bubble map. Once we had all of our facts down, we watched the video again and we paused it at different parts and asked questions about the part that we stopped on. When it had finished, we wrote down some more ideas then started writing. 

Here are a couple of finished stories about our Pompeii writing.


 


Blake's Pompeii Writing from Claire Bojesen-Trepka on Vimeo.
Kade's Pompeii Writing from Claire Bojesen-Trepka on Vimeo.