Stage 2 Speeches

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Stage 2 students have been busy all term with public speaking and writing interesting speeches. They have been learning about eye contact, stance, clarity, engaging introductions and using expression when speaking.

They have had lots of time to get better and better at speaking in front of their friends, their group and their class; but today they had to speak in front of the whole stage! It was very exciting but very nerve wracking as well 🙂

Everyone gathered in the Library to hear the finalists speak on a number of interesting topics – including re-cycling, aliens, and being able to talk to animals!

The speakers were terrific – they used eye contact, spoke clearly and had funny and interesting things to talk about. Congratulations to the winners – Selafina, Abdullah and Solomone.

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Searching, searching, searching!

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This week Stage 3 students were introduced to better search techniques to use when they are searching the internet for information.

Below is a You Tube clip that mentions a number of the strategies we used this week.

Why not watch it and then practise your searching techniques online?

Origami Ninja Stars or An Information Text!

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Today Year 3 students watched a You Tube clip that showed and told them how to make a ninja star. Here are some of the interesting things they noticed about this text:

  • it was an instructional text – it showed you how to make something
  • it was a type of procedure, with steps to follow
  • you had to listen to the words as well as watch the pictures
  • the video was really helpful to watch as if you couldn’t understand a part you could watch and see what to do next
  • the video supported the words, you could watch the video over and over at each part – to see how the narrator was actually moving the papers and making the folds
  • the photos inbooks are static (they stay still) the video showed the movements to make with the folding
  • the spoken words + the written words + the video worked together to make sure we could actually make our ninja stars!

Here is the clip we watched:

 

 

And here are our finished ninja stars 🙂

 

Holy Bagumba!

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Stage 2, here is a great little story that we will be reading together over the next few weeks.

It’s about a superhero squirrel called Ulysses and his friend Flora Belle Buckman.

The story has many references to comics and the language and features found in comics – click here to read comics online at

Marvel Comics for Kids site

DC Comics for Kids

Kidjutsu Comics for Kids

Make your own comics at Make Beliefs Comics

Here is the book trailer for Flora and Ulysses for you to enjoy 🙂

 

Leave a comment below if you love to read comics

Origami Yoda

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We have started reading “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” this week and have had a few giggles with the descriptions of the characters (which are all kids).

 

Some people thought they would like to try and fold their own Yoda, so here is Tom Angleberger’s site – with instructions and videos to make your own Origami Yoda at home.

 

There  are lots of other interesting things on this site – have a look and leave a comment below telling us what you think!

 

Here is You Tube of how to make a simple Origami Yoda!

 

 

2013 – up and running!

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Welcome back AllStars -ready for a big year in the Library?

I can’t wait, my “LEARNER” plates are off and I am bursting with ideas to share with you all!

To start us off – did you know that reading gives you super powers?

Dav Pilkey (The author who writes Captain Underpants stories) tell us how …….

Hhhhmmmm ….. just what sort of super power do you think reading gives YOU?