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Adventurous Fun Camp!

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Listen To Our Stories!

Watch this space! This week we will record some of our adventure stories. We hope you enjoy listening to them!

Writing Exciting Adventure Stories

In Room 9 we have been writing stories.  First we read lots of stories and had lots of discussion about what was in each story and what made them great!  Then we had a go at writing stories with Miss Watts' help.  Today we brainstormed all the things we needed to make a great story!

Story Structure:

1. Title - a short bit of information about the story
2. Orientation - describe who, when, where and why (don't give too much away)
3. Complication - describe the problem, ask a question to create a climax
4. Resolution - solve the problem, describe a happy or a sad ending 

WOW words

1. Onomatopoeia 
2. Alliteration
3. Exciting verbs
4. Adverbs - describe how, when or where the verbs happen
5. Adjectives - describe what nouns (things/objects or people) look, feel or sound like

Use punctuation

1. Ellipsis... to create a pause make it exciting and create tension
2. Exclamation marks  - to make it exciting 
3. Full stops & capital letters

Type of sentences

1. Choose different words to start sentences
2. Short sentences to create excitement and tension
3. Long sentences to describe characters, setting, action, emotions, feeling (can be short)

WE LOVE SCIENCE!

Ivy was really keen to do MORE SCIENCE experiments.  We wanted to link it to our inquiry 'Against All Odds'.  So we watched a leopard seal swimming to give us some ideas.  We watched the leopard seal swim and glide through the water.  It floated and dived under the water.



Here are some our questions we would like to test...

Fish Philosophy

We want our class to be an awesome room.  We want people to feel welcome at our school.  We try and be their friend using fish philosophy. This means being there, making their day, choosing your attitude and playing!  Having fun makes you feel happy in the inside. (by Jaxon)

We use fish philiosophy to practice the key competency 'relating to others' :)  It also links to our school value 'getting along'. At the end of each day a student awards the fish to a class mate they think has demonstrated fish philosophy that day. On the slide show are students who have been awarded the fish this term and the fish philosophy cards we display in our classroom. (by Miss Watts a.k.a Emma!)

Room 9's Vege Garden

In our garden we have been planting vegetables.  First we pulled the weeds out of the garden.  And we picked out some strawberries, potatoes and cucumber.  We pulled out some roots and the roots were really hard to pull out.  We planted brusslespouts, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and marigolds.  We are trying to make our garden a nice and clean place to work in!  We also want to grow lots of yummy vegetables!