Our Key Pals In Spain!

Room 14 are very excited because we have new key pals from Spain! They are a class of 5th graders from Madrid which is the capital of Spain. We call them 'key pals' because we use our keys on the keyboard to type emails to them, instead of calling them pen pals!

Here are some examples of google drawings and emails we sent to our new friends:

 

Wednesday 20 November, 2013

Dear Key Pal,

Kia ora my name is Alla. I am 9 years old and I am a girl. The country I live in is New Zealand. I go to Pt England School. I like Pt England school because you can make a lot of good friends and there are lots of very nice teachers at Pt England school. Pt England school also has a wonderful principal.

My hobby is playing with my friends. My favourite food is sushi because I love the tuna one. My favourite place is school because I can play with my friends. My favourite sport is Netball.

My favourite book to read is Goosebumps because I love scary books. The best subject that I like at school is Maths maths is my favourite because we do fun stuff.

I hope you write back From your new friend Alla.

Wednesday 20th Nov 2013

Dear Key Pal,

Bula vinaka and my name is James. And I I’m a year 5 student. I am a boy and I go to Pt England School in Auckland. PES is a lovely place where you can have fun and learn a lot.

I live in New Zealand. My favorite food is KFC. My favorite places I like to go is the movies and the JB Hi Fi. Every day I like to go with my two brothers and play video games.

The best book I like to read is Jack and the beanstalk. My subject I like is maths because it helps you and think fast. In my family I have two brothers and one sister.

At home I have a Xbox 360 a Playstation Two and a Xbox. My brother has a flat screen and a ipad. I hope you really like my letter. Thank you for reading.

Ka kite ano and have a great day.

From James    

Creating E-Books in Room 14

Do you know what an e-book is? No its not an egg book, it is a 'electronic book'. This week Room Fourteen have been learning how to create an e-book using google presentation.

The week before Easter, Room Fourteen used Story Starters to find a prompt for their writing. Miss Ouano guided us through the structure, helped planned, and away we went writing. 

After we had edited out writing, we marked with a buddy then with Miss Ouano. Then we used our writing to create an e-book using a template that Miss Ouano had prepared. We had to draw pictures for each page to show what was happening in each part.

Some of the prompts from Story Starters were hilarious! Check out some of our cool e-books below!

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Tim The Super Dog by Toma 

My story starters was:Write a quick story about a fast dog who can fly in the sky.

This is a story book that I made in class with my teacher. I hope you enjoy It.

Gerry's Day by Antonia


My story starter: Write A horror story about a spider monkey who finds a newly discovered planet.

My Letter To The Jumping Banana by May

This is my story starter that I made myself that I think I done lots of work on.

My Prompt: Write a birthday letter for a jumping banana who goes to the beach for the summer.


 The Milkshake Who Joins The Hungry Class by Dartanian
Prompt: Write a funny story about a milkshake who is in your classroom.


My Postcard to the crazy princess by Elizabeth


Prompt:  Write a postcard to a crazy princess who eats muffins all day.

You will see why she is  a crazy princess in the story. I Hope you enjoy.

Goosebumps:Clowns in the Amazon by Junior


My story starter: Write a story about a horrible circus performer who is lost in the Amazon.

The Sheep Who Only Wore Green Clothes by Izac

Kia Ora today you are looking at is a writing story that is about a Sheep Who Wears Green Clothes.

Prompt: Write a quick story about a red sheep who wears only green clothes.

The Very Short Cat by Sarai
This is a story about The Very Short Cat named Tylah I hope you enjoy my story.