R3 Writing Fraser, Tyler and Nicholas

Learning from the Hawks in the UK

We've previously posted on our class page how we were using the work of the Hawks Class from the UK as an inspiration with our writing, and their 'I am Tim Peake!' creative letter writing.  As well as creating a slideshow for their class we thought that it would also be fun to make a video talking about their work.  This video was filmed, edited and put together by Aroha and Ashley.  You can click on the link here to the original post.

Video for the Hawks in the UK from Auroa School, NZ from myles webb on Vimeo.

Writing Exemplars from the UK

We're always looking for fantastic examples of work of other students that we can use as examples.  In writing at the moment we've discovered some writing from the Hawks from lford Primary School in the UK.  They're been writing letters from the perspective of Tim Peake, a UK astronaut who has just arrived on the ISS (International Space Station).   They have posted a series of letters from him describing his experiences from his perspective.

In Room Three, Auroa Primary School, New Zealand - we've spent two days looking at their writing.  We have highlighted the writing features that have been used like metaphors and similes.  We've blown the writing up to A3 size and we've added colour and additional information and we're about to mount it on our wall - and use it to improve our writing.

IamTimPeaker - Kizoa Video Editor - Movie Maker

Monarch Butterfly by Paige

Over Christmas we had Monarch butterflies arrive on our Swan Plants (milk weed). So I decided to photograph the stages that they went through. First the Monarch lays its eggs and lots of hungry caterpillars hatch out. It takes about four days to hatch out of the eggs. They ate all the leafs. After two weeks they turned into chrysalis. It took them ages to turn into butterfly. They came out and dried their wings and flew away. These are the photos that I took of what happened.
Monarch butterfly (1) from myles webb on Vimeo.