Descriptive writing

Read Steadfast's piece of descriptive writing.  The task was to choose an image and describe it using the best descriptive vocabulary they could.  I think this writing is amazing!  What do you think?

Writing Challenge

Today Miss Bolton challenged Room 8 to write a story in 15 minutes.  Each person chose a setting from a list on the board, then had 15 minutes to write.  Every one took this challenge very seriously, nothing could be heard apart from fingers tapping on keyboards.

After the time was up, we all shared our writing with another person and we had to make a comment on their writing.  Then we had time to share our writing with the class.

Room 8 were so involved with our writing that they convinced Miss Bolton to let them carry on writing!

Here are the links to our writing:

Destiny's writing     

Kaleb's writing

Steadfast's writing

Lihai's writing

Ofa's writing

Phoenix's writing

Tui's writing

Brier's writing

Ana's writing

Susana's writing

Layton's writing

Robin's writing

Karll's writing

Tapu's writing

Antonio's writing

Kaumea's writing

Tara's writing

Sonny's writing

Room 8's writing

In writing this week, we have been working on making our writing more interesting to read.  We have been discussing WOW words - descriptive words that make our work more interesting.  Words like:
     enormous instead of big    or      icy instead of cold.

Below are some videos of our work using the website telescopictext.org - we started with a very simple sentence, then added WOW words and extra detail to make the sentence more interesting.

What do you think of our work?

2 from mbolton on Vimeo.

1 from mbolton on Vimeo.

Storybird Books

This week we have been using a website called storybird.com where we can write our own books.  We can choose the art that we want to base our writing on, then we can write our own stories.

Here is Naiya's book.  Enjoy!

Feta Cheese

On Friday 15 November Miss Bolton brought some feta cheese to school.

The Fraggle Rock reading group had read a story about a boy who had feta cheese in his sandwiches.  No one in the group could remember trying feta cheese, so Miss Bolton said she would bring some for everyone to try.

Here are some writing we did about trying the feta cheese.

Robin wrote:
Today we tasted a different type of cheese called feta cheese.  It tasted like salty water, but cheese.  It felt slimy.  It looked nice.  The feta cheese was yummy.

Fonua wrote:
Today Room 8 ate feta cheese.  The feta cheese looked like a piece of vanilla cake and it felt smooth.  

Kaleb wrote:
Today we tried feta cheese to see what it tasted like.  The feta cheese looked like a piece of a cake, because it was shaped in a square.  It smelled like ordinary cheese, but tasted different.  The feta cheese felt like melted cheese.  It tasted yuck because it was like salty water.

Writing Buddies

This term Room 8 are going to be using writing buddies to try to make our writing even better and achieve higher marks. This week we are practising how to listen carefully to our buddy and what to say to our buddy. 

These are some photos of Room 8 practising being writing buddies: