Story Cubes

This week for Writing in Room 8 we were introduced to Story cubes!
Story cubes are where you roll 3 dice and they land showing three different images. The task is that you then have to use your imagination and create a story based on those three pictures.

We saw lots of really creative, unique ideas in the classroom. Here is Mary-Janes awesome work!

Images I used for this story - Tower, Flower and Key.

 

One day a man named Jake thought of building a very high building, a few years past and his building was finished, He called it the long line tower, The long line tower was one of the world's biggest building. One day Jake went to go ask a builder to build him a custom made door, the door took for weeks because jake wanted it to be the best door anybody had ever seen. After the door was made Jake went to get his key measurements, the man the was measuring gave him the measurements and Jake walked down to the key maker and gave the man his key measurements. 

A few days went by and Jake went back to the key maker and picked up his keys for the long line tower, Jake was so happy he could get his tower more upgrades and make his tower better, Jake was over joyed seeing his key, he put the key in the keyhole and opened up his tower, it had all the gib wood in it. About a 6 months later all the towers walls were painted and they looked amazing, a quarter of the tower was a hotel some was a restaurant, some of the tower was a arcade for kids and adults, Jake thought of making the back and front of the building a garden for crops and plants so Jake got a great gardener and the gardener made plan grass into a beautiful garden with crops and flowers, Jakes Long line tower was getting popular and popular. 

About 7 months later Jake's long line tower was one of the best towers in the world, Jakes gardener came back to plant some more flower and crops, a few days later Jake got told he was now able to see his garden the gardener took him outside, Jake was as bouncy as a kangaroo Jake looked around and then he saw a big bunch of purple hibiscus flowers, Jake loved them because they where big bright and beautiful, and his tower stayed there for a long time.
THE END

Great work Mary-Jane!

The Holi Festival

Do you know what the Holi Festival is?

In Room 8 today, 9 of our students completed a reading on the "Holi Festival" and learnt all about what it is, why it is celebrated, and where it is usually celebrated. 

I could tell you all about it myself, but instead, why not have a look through their brilliant presentations!

Here is Leilani's DLO

Here is Troy's DLO

Here is Hamish's DLO

Here is Lydia's DLO

Here is Levi's DLO

Here is Akih's DLO

Here if Fe'ao's DLO

Here is Mary-Jane's DLO

Here is Taonga's DLO

Our Marvellous Medicine

Lately in class, during milk time, we have been reading "Georges Marvellous Medicine" by Roald Dahl. As part of our creative writing, we decided to write our own 'Marvellous Medicine recipe!'. The only rule was that it had to be a recipe that would do something good!

Here are a couple of examples of some of the students work!

Mary-Jane's Marvellous Medicine!

Troy's Marvellous Medicine!

Stephney's Marvellous Medicine!