A little advice for reading our narratives:
If your screen is bright you will find the scrolling text difficult to read. We suggest that you dim the screen until your eyes adjust. This is the only means that we could find to overcome this affect. Let us know how you get on.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Narrative Stories Brought to Life
Hot Off The Press -Read our Narrative Stories
These are some of the narrative stories that we published at the end of Term 2. We studied narrative text styles for five weeks. Before writing our stories, we read lots of different narrative picture books and explored the way they were written. We learned that narrative stories come in many different forms but all have a plot that includes a problem and solution. The writing process was broken down into small chunks so that we could understand what went into each part of it. First we planned our story around a theme. Then we developed the plot thinking about how the problem would happen and how it would be solved. The characters were developed to suit the story we were writing. We used visualisation to imagine our characters and then brainstormed lots of different words to describe them. The hardest part was getting started. We had to set the scene using the ‘w’ words; where, when, who and just a touch of why. We knew we had to save the what, how and why for the body of the story. We talked about whether our story would have a climax or anti-climax at the end. Most of used an anti-climax. The hardest part was going back to reread our work every two or three sentences. We were told that this was called 'recursive writing' and that it was very important. We had to make sure that what we had written made sense. After proof reading and editing our work we thought that we did a great job of writing. We hope you like these stories that have been put into an imovie scrapbook format.
These are some of the narrative stories that we published at the end of Term 2. We studied narrative text styles for five weeks. Before writing our stories, we read lots of different narrative picture books and explored the way they were written. We learned that narrative stories come in many different forms but all have a plot that includes a problem and solution. The writing process was broken down into small chunks so that we could understand what went into each part of it. First we planned our story around a theme. Then we developed the plot thinking about how the problem would happen and how it would be solved. The characters were developed to suit the story we were writing. We used visualisation to imagine our characters and then brainstormed lots of different words to describe them. The hardest part was getting started. We had to set the scene using the ‘w’ words; where, when, who and just a touch of why. We knew we had to save the what, how and why for the body of the story. We talked about whether our story would have a climax or anti-climax at the end. Most of used an anti-climax. The hardest part was going back to reread our work every two or three sentences. We were told that this was called 'recursive writing' and that it was very important. We had to make sure that what we had written made sense. After proof reading and editing our work we thought that we did a great job of writing. We hope you like these stories that have been put into an imovie scrapbook format.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Our Technic Lego Extension Activity
As a part of our 'Simple Machines' unit, a group of students who had demonstrated a keen interest in the scientific component of our work were provided with the opportunity to further their understanding of levers. William Joyce came in to spend an afternoon with these children. Nate and Teariki used digital images to record the session. These images have been inserted into a Keynote application. We hope you enjoy sharing their experience.
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