Autumn Writing

The best things to write about are the things we experience.

On Monday we went and played in the Autumn leaves behind the Senior playground.  We looked at the different colours and shapes of the leaves, we walked through them and listened to the noises they made, we felt them when we gathered them up and threw them high in the air, and we even smelled them.  The only sense we didn't use was our sense of taste. We decided that we didn't need to use all five of our senses for this writing experience!

When we got back to class we brainstormed all the interesting words to describe our experience so that we'd be ready to write on Tuesday. On Tuesday Mrs Michell taught us and we wrote some amazing stories using lots of great describing words.  Some of our class went with Mrs Nichol to learn how to blog and they wrote about Autumn as well.  Their blogs are posted below.

Have a look at the full album of autumn fun on our google site photo album page -> HERE.

Learning how to blog

Today 8 children from Rooms 25, 26 and 27 worked with Mrs Nichol to learn how to write a blog post on an iPad.  Our topic for writing was Autumn.  First the children took a photo of an autumn leaf behind Room 31 using their iPad.

  

 

Next Mrs Nichol showed the children how to open the Blogger app on the iPad, how to begin a new post, how to add a title and photo, and then how to begin writing.  When their stories were finished, the children learnt how to add a label for their name so that their parents can easily find the work that they have done on their class blog.

 Mrs Maingay came along to help us and to learn how to blog too.

We are pretty proud of our blog posts.  You can see Room 26's posts following this post on our class blog.  If you'd like to read the posts from Room 27 and Room 25, you can click on the link to their class blogs in the blog roll to the right of these posts.

Learning about the five senses aka: play dough fun!!

Today we made playdough.  As we were making our playdough we discussed each of the five senses.  We talked about what the playdough felt like, smelled like, looked like, tasted like and sounded like.  We are going to use all of the great descriptive adjectives we came up with for our writing tomorrow.

Our first movie is ready!!!  Click HERE to see us in action!