Cinderella ... celebrated on 'Inspiration'

Inspiration is a mind mapping ICT tool that we are lucky enough to have the chance to use in our classroom. It is really great because Ms O'B is learning with us how to use this. We have all completed our Story Webs for Cinderella and now Ms O'B has published them on Inspiration. We chose our own colours. First we checked our own one on our teacher's laptop, then our whole class looked at all of them on the data projector in our classroom ... they look fantastic. All the other teachers in our school have seen them too. Ms O'B will load these and the other pictures into our blog tomorrow.

''Telling Our Stories' - Cinderella

We shared our Cinderella stories and our art work with Learning Community 8. Apparently the word was out from the Palace that someone from Learning Community 9 at West Melton School was thought to have left the glass slipper after the ball. They are coming to check all the slippers to find out who it belongs to. We created our slippers from collage, we had to use 3 different things... small cut up pieces of ... material, shiny coloured paper and bright coloured small cardboard tiles. They were very fiddly to handle but we all had fun, especially when we got to choose our own sequin. Pop in to see them in our class room if you can. This is one we shared with Learning Community 8 children and Mrs Herring ... 'We love to tell our stories and become the teachers, it is so cool'.

Story Web - Wacky Ms O'B T3 Week 3

What a surprise we got when we arrived at school on the Thursday to find all our teachers dressed up for 'Wacky Teacher Day'. We just couldn't stop laughing ... they just looked sooooo funny! Ms O'B looked so ridiculous! Our class decided to use this great opportunity to use describing words to write our Story Webs and build sentences. We will include a picture of Ms O'B, a Story Web, story and our class Inspiration. ...

Kiwi Jump Jam Promotion - T3 Week 4

The whole Kiwi Team had an awesome time with Steph Rumble leading us in the new Jump Jam routines. We were very lucky to have a lot of children from both Learning Community 7 & 1 to help us out with the moves. What a great way to start our day!

Junior Rugby Skills- Term 3 Weeks 3 & 4

Learning Communities 8,9 and 10 had an amazing 3 sessions of Rugby Skills with Lee Golding from the Canterbury Rugby Union. Lots of us wore our rugby boots and of course our mouth guards. Our teachers were shocked to see how great our ball skills were. Here we are having lots of fun! Oops! ... I am really having trouble getting the pictures on our blog again, so it's back to some more learning for Ms O'B tomorrow at school. With some help from someone, perseverance and Team 9 'stickability' I am sure I will should get this sorted tomorrow. Signing off now...

We have been creating 'Story Webs'. We used 6 main ideas - each with a describing word. Then we numbered them from 1 -6 in the order we wanted to write about them. From this we wrote our Holiday Stories creating a sentence from each idea. This is helping us to build the right use of both capital letters and full stops. It has taken us lots of work as we have done both a draft and a published copy. Ms O'B thinks they are all awesome. You are welcome to come to our class to look at them.
This week we are creating our own Story Webs about Cinderella. We created a class one from Inspiration on the computer... here it is!! Signing off now from Learning Community 9.

Inquiry Learning - 'Telling Our Stories'

26 July 2007


We have been learning about different types of stories and what they are used for.














Today we had a 'Story time Lunch' where Ms OB read a mad book called 'Harry Hobnail and the Pungapeople'. This was a fiction book - we know that is when the story is made up - so it is not real. We also know that non-fiction books are about facts.