Writing

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This term, the genre for writing is poetry. Room 3 will be looking at a large variety of poems and creating poetry of their own.

Ode Poems





Narrative Poems 

Poems that Rhyme

Sketch and Blank Verse Poems

**__ When we are writing our blank verse poems, we need to: __**


 * Sketch a picture of our poem subject
 * Write at least 5 lines that describe the object
 * Use words that __do not__ create a rhyme
 * Use a similar number of syllables/words for each line to create a rhythm



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Room 3 knows that it is very important to have an interesting starter to grab the reader's attention.









How to Build a Raft

  

There are many different types of procedures. Room 3 had already looked at recipes and science experiments, so we compared them to a game procedure.

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What is a greeting card?

Room 3 have had lots of practice at making movies on the iPad app "Puppet Pals" by creating retells of stories. Now, they have planned, written, story-boarded and recorded some movies of their own creations! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Here they are: media type="youtube" key="wVOj382VoZE" height="309" width="426"media type="youtube" key="pEDGRr4VoGg" height="314" width="420" align="right" media type="youtube" key="zqEBThTaNsE" height="315" width="420"





<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">All of Room 3 worked really hard on their speeches this year. It was a very tough decision to try and find the top two speeches. Sanae and Lucy made it through to the sub-cluster final. Here are their speeches: media type="youtube" key="zayIhwcYGv0" height="238" width="419" align="left" media type="youtube" key="sd0lXRbzofQ" height="235" width="414" align="right"

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">We looked at some different purposes for writing speeches. The children were split into 4 groups and had to come up with a definition for one of the purposes and some possible speech topics.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">We looked at some examples of speeches on Youtube and decided what makes a good speech and what makes a bad speech

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