Problem at the Pole - Reading with expression by Talita

This week Nga Kea had the same book as the Penguins. We had the same task, and that was to...
1. Get into groups.
2. Get some books.
3. Make sure with our teacher we were allowed to record in a quiet place.
4. Start recording.
After we had done that, we posted it to our blog's. 

You never know if we are doing a video of this! So watch out for the video.
These are the people in my group:
-Venetia (Nga Kea)
-Yvonne (Nga Kea)
-Me (Nga Kea)
-Seini (Penguins)
-Waimaria (Penguins)
-Rima (Penguins)

How to Create a Silver Frame by Alisha

An Interview with Michel Tuffery by Rima and Talita

Postcards From Qui Nhon

Eating Pikipiko by Dezarae

NZ Bush layers by DJ

I am learning to find and use information from a range of sources. We are reading about the native bush and ferns. This picture shows the different layers of New Zealand’s native bush.

Camping Down The Line Part 2 by Waimaria

Never camp by the train tracks!

The World of Ferns Vocabulary by Venetia

Brilliant Facts About Butterflies - By Omari

What is a Rousie? By the Kea's Group

Junior,Lorenzo And Tevita Rousie from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Hi this is me and my friends Tevita and Junior and we were talking about what a rousie is. Hope you enjoy and leave a comment on me and my friends blogs: Tevita's blog  Junior's blog
What Is a rousie?by Quinlan And Arietta from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Quinlan and Mahana Read 'Spring Chickens'

Quinlan and Mahana have used audioboo to record their beautiful reading! Click here to read the journal article on our reading blog.

listen to ‘Quinlan and mahanas reading’ on Audioboo

Making Cheese

This is my Cheese making activity. I really like it because it is all about CHEESE!!!! Hope you enjoy it:) By May

The Magic Castle by Quinlan

This is my audio boo and story in flip snack. Please press the play button with the story. Enjoy!

listen to ‘The magic castle’ on Audioboo

Performing Plays in Room 14

This week in Room 14 we have been learning to read with expression. Reading with expression means to read with different tones, sounding like the character, and not sounding like a half asleep robot!

First we read our plays with our group and Miss Ouano. Then we practiced reading the play with our group in a quiet place. We had to make sure when we were reading with our group we worked together and worked as a team.

Once we had practiced, we then presented our plays to our class! Performing in front of the class was really embarrassing and really nerve racking, but in the end it was loads of fun!

After our performance, we recorded ourselves reading our play’s using Audio Boo. We then posted our boo’s to our blogs, so that others can hear our expressive reading.

Reading with expression has helped us to learn many skills, here are some:

• Understanding the story
• Working well with a team
• Expressing ourselves through drama
• Performing confidently to an audience
• Improving our oral language

And lastly having fun!

We hope you enjoyed hearing all about our learning! Be sure to leave a comment on our awesome blogs!

Reading with Expression

This week Room Fourteen have been focusing on reading with expression. We have been using plays from our journals to practice reading with different tones and changing our voices to suit different characters.

Listen to our boo's below to hear some of our awesome reading!  Here I am reading the whole play by myself!!!

listen to ‘junior's training day’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Antonia The royla breakfast.’ on Audioboo

Holding a Friendly Conversation

Holding Friendly Conversations - 1080p from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
This morning in Room 14 we were working on our oral language. Miss Ouano was telling us all about holding a friendly conversation with someone.

We say 'holding' a friendly conversation because we when we talk to people we are trying to talk to them for a good amount of time without it being awkward.

Conversations usually start with questions and replies. A good conversation should have at least 6 lines or more.

Here are examples of our conversation below:

James:

This morning room 14 are leaning about holding a conversations. It means when someone is talking to you. Me and my partner where having a conversation. my partners name was Tylah and we were so happy when we finished. I hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment.

listen to ‘Tylah's and James Conversation’ on Audioboo

Ritua:
This morning Room 14 were learning about holding friendly conversations. My partner was Tihi and we used audio boo to record our friendly conversation. I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation and be sure to leave a positive comment.

listen to ‘Ritua and Tihi’ on Audioboo

Tevita:

This morning Room 14 were learning about holding friendly conversations. My partner was May and we used Audio Boo to record our oral language activity.
listen to ‘Tevita and May Oral Language’ on Audioboo

Izac:

This morning room 14 are learning about holding a conversation. It's like when someone come's up to you, and you can't just drop the conversation so. Please leave a comment, thank you.

listen to ‘Izac and mahana’ on Audioboo

All About Whales by Lorenzo

This morning Room 14 have been learning all about whales. Did you know that whales have blubber to keep them warm? I hope you enjoy my poster, and be sure to leave a comment!

Visit my blog here

Whales by Maroroa

Making Reading Movies

Last term, we used our ipads to make movies to retell our stories in different ways. Look and listen to some of our examples below:

Dog Saves Girl From Sea by Sarai and Antonia


Dog Saves Girl From Sea from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

We have made a news story about based on the story Marama’s Dog. I first thing we did was write a script for our group. We shared a doc with each other worked on the one doc together. Once we finished that, we practiced it, then we filmed it on the ipad. When we were finished we editied it on imovie then uploaded it to vimeo.

When it was on Vimeo we hopped on our netbooks and embedded the video on a new blog post to share it to the world!

We hope you enjoyed our movie.

The Dog Who Chased Lighting by Elizabeth, Paris, Tihi and Maysun.

Kiwis News flash - The Dog Who Chased Lightning from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

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.