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Most important: Animations. Record your voice-over if you haven't! You can do this in Creative Space at lunchtime too.

Instructions:

We have been reading and learning about birds this term. Now, we are going to listen to a story in which you imagine you are a bird!

After listening to the story, it is time to complete your writing tasks.

When you have finished, share the tasks on your blog:

Task 1: take a screenshot and post the image in a new blog post

Task 2: copy and paste the text from the doc into a new blog post

Labels: 2017, Literacy, Creative writing, I'm a bird,

Image retrieved from Wikimedia

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

How is your animation looking? Have you thought about what you are going to say in your voice over?

During writing this week, you are going to work on creating a script for your animation. You will be able to turn this script into your voice over.

Remember to include:

- A short retelling of what happens in the myth/legend

- Adjectives to make your writing interesting.

- Links to the environment and 'Te Taiao o Tāmaki'

Read your script carefully to check that it makes sense. Read it again to check your punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks).

Finished? Share your animation script on your blog with a screenshot from your animation.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

1. We have watched a couple of videos and talked about how we create quality blog comments.

2. Now it is time to create your own quality blog comment for one of our Te Taiao o Tāmaki buddy blogging classes.

3. First of all, please make a copy of your task presentation. Move to your Cybersmart folder.

4. What do you need to do next? Let's go through the presentation!

Instructions:

How cool was camp?

Writing template

Have a good discussion with your group and your teacher as you think about your highlights from camp.

Camp was an awesome time, and it would be really awesome to share those experiences on our blog. It would also be nice to have them there for next year.

After you have written about your amazing experiences, take time to read your writing again. Does it make sense? What about punctuation? Does every sentence have a full stop and capital letter?

Here are some words to help with your writing.

If you have finished your camp recount, you have a choice:

Choice 1: Write a thank-you letter to Mr Burt for creating such an amazing

Year 5-6 camp. Create a doc and move to your writing folder.

Choice 2: Create a presentation to share your writing in a different way for your

audience. Look at Noah's example to give you an idea how you might

want to do this.

Check out Noah's camp experience from last year

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

What did you do at the picnic? What did you enjoy?

1. Have a chat about it with a buddy and as a class.

2. Use our template to plan and record the ideas you want to recount.

3. Write your recount in full sentences underneath your plan.

4. Read your writing carefully to check that your ideas match your plan. Then, read it again to check that it each sentence makes sense.

5. Ask a buddy to read your recount. Do they have any feedback for you?

6. Create a drawing/image to represent your experience.

7. Publish to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Recount, picnic

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be interesting for our audience.

Open presentation

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

We will look at how we use there, their and they're as a whole class..

After that, it will be time for you to complete your task.

You will read your sentences to a buddy. Did you both use the correct there, their or they're?

Next, it is time for you to create Task 2!

Open presentation

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

We will spend time exploring our environment.

1. Once we have completed our experience, we will talk about it with a buddy and as a class.

2. Use our template to plan and record the ideas you want to recount.

3. Write your recount in full sentences underneath your plan.

4. Read your writing carefully to check that your ideas match your plan. Then, read it again to check that it each sentence makes sense.

5. Ask a buddy to read your recount. Do they have any feedback for you?

6. Create a drawing/image to represent your experience.

7. Publish to your blog: Personal title, Labels: 2017, Writing, Recount.

We want our recounts to

share our personal experience and be interesting for our audience.

Teacher Notes

Instructions:

Welcome to 2017!

It is a new year. You have created a new blurb 'About Me' for your blog.

Now it is time to think about your learning goals for 2017. What do you want to improve on at Reading, Writing and Maths?

We want our goals to be:

- Different to everyone else's goals!

- Helpful to our learning.

- Short and specific.

Write in full sentences, making sure to check sentence punctuation.

Instructions:

Welcome to 2017!

It is a new year, and you need a new 'about me' on your blog!

Your 'about me' blurb represents yourself, your family, and your interests for 2017! But we also need to make sure that we are being cybersmart because anyone in the world can read this!

We want our blurbs to be:

- Different to everyone else's blurb!

- Short and sharp! = Audience appeal!

- Cybersmart

We also want our blurbs to flow. We do this by:

Using a variety of sentences! Make sure you start your sentences in different ways.