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// Read ​The Cay by Theodore Taylor [|The Cay] //

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Room 3 have been using the iPads to create a retell of some stories that they have read. They have been using the "Puppet Pals" app for this. First, the children had to plan their retells out on a story board planner. Then they had to take pictures for their backgrounds and characters. Finally, they had to film their retells, using Puppet Pals. Here they are! media type="youtube" key="vGxQrtnKBOE" height="315" width="420" align="left" media type="youtube" key="ALZhwi8X4II" height="315" width="420" align="right"

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Taking the important parts of the text - Lucy

Sorting out the important parts in the text - Kate

Focusing on one idea at a time - Sanae

Picking out the main ideas and putting them in your own words - Franzine

Gather up all of the main ideas and supporting details and match them up to get an idea of what the text is about - Danrey

Taking all of the important main ideas and sorting them into categories - Caleb

Picking out all of the main words in a text and putting them into one idea - Lucy

**End of unit (13/09/12)**
Gathering all of the other ideas and making one main idea - Jack

Gathering all of the important ideas and making them into a sentence - Kate

Reading over the text and finding the main ideas and supporting details and putting them into a sentence that we can understand - Sanae

Taking all the small main ideas and putting them into one, big main idea - Caleb

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading over the text, then picking out different ideas and them putting them into one - Lucy

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Get all the main ideas and supporting details in the paragraphs, then combine them all together to make a summary about the whole text - Danrey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Finding the important ideas - Sanae

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Taking all the important ideas and turning them into one big idea that we can understand - Caleb

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Taking all the important ideas and summarising them - Lucy

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Week 7 of term 2 was book week. As a school, we decided to celebrate books that we love by dressing up as one of our favourite book characters or authors. Room 3 took pictures of themselves, as their book character and then //**manipulated their** **images**// using comiclife, on the computers. Here are the finished products: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">

=Synthesizing means... (beginning of the unit - CSI)=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading the text and putting it in your own words - Sanae

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting it into your own words and finding the main idea - Lucy

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Making things easier to understand for yourself - Reegan

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Translating a big sentence to a sentence that makes you understand - Danrey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Taking notes and putting it in your own words - Kate

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting it in your own words and making connections to your life and what you have already read, to help you understand - Sanae

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">End of unit.....

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting the main idea into your own words - Lucy

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Getting the main idea and gathering information to create your own sentence - Danrey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Making your own opinion - Caleb

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Summarise the information then making your own opinion

===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today, we learned how to find key vocabulary, main ideas and supporting detail to help us understand what the poem "Tugboat at daybreak" was about (12/06/12) ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Then... we wrote poems using some words synthesized from "Tugboat at daybreak". All of the words came from the poem and described light, jewelry and sleep. The poems we wrote could be about anything, as long as they included some of these words.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Check out some of our poems:**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Queen's Bedroom __**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The light was __dimmed__ from the __dawn__ of __morning__. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her __tiara__ and __necklace__ were __twinkling__ and so was the __diamond__ __jewel__ on her ring. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her night __light__ was shining bright. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She was in a deep, __quiet__ __slumber__ in her __bed__. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her skin, __ghostlike__. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her room __silently__ filling with __light__.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Sanae


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In a mansion __**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In a mansion, it would be __quiet__ at __dawn__. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unlike a normal house, there would be __slumber__ parties and in the __morning__ it would be loud. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In a mansion, the jewelry box would have __necklaces__, __tiaras__, __jewels__, __diamonds__ and other __twinkling__ things. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In a mansion in the bedroom, there would be a __ghostlike__ __bed__ with a cat __silently__ sleeping while the __lights__ are __dimmed.__

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Abbey



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