Today.

Today has been really busy.

First up today for writing talent development, we looked at the marking criteria and talked about what we needed to do for our writing. During the session I finished my story about Quack and Madison. I printed off my draft and then Katie checked it and put some suggestions of things I needed to work on. I spent the rest of the session fixing these things up.

My story is going to be made into an animation. Next week we will be carrying on with writing and I think we will be starting on the production.

We have 6 weeks after today to finish - that's not that long.

I have completed my before school pick - daily quiz. I went to the debating workshop with Alana, and completed goal setting with Katie.

Bye,

Madison

Hi Madison.

You worked really well during our writing talent development today. You have chosen to work independently, and it was great to see you get settled straight away, planning all your ideas for your narrative story. You confidently shared your ideas with the rest of the group at the end of the session. You planning is clear, and your storyline is easy to follow. I look forward to you developing these ideas next week. It's great to see you so focussed Madison - keep it up!

Katie.

Today

Today I was carrying on with creative writing. We were working on ideas of our story and the structure of the the story. Structure of the story is the beginning, problem and solution. My story is about a rich French girl and her pet duck, Quack. She didn't have any parents so the nanny had to look after her. The nanny was jealous of her because the girl was beautiful and rich.

The nanny wasn't.

One day the nanny organized for Quack and the girl to go on a ballon ride. The girl didn't know that the nanny had organized for people to shoot the ballon!

I am so excited about entering the MADE awards!

Bye

Madison.

Term Three Day One.

Today is the first day of term three! This term we are all doing talent development. There were three things we could choose from. They were:

Art (Doing an art: clay sculpting and other things to put into an art exhibition),

A Southland documentary for the MADE Awards,

And creative writing for the MADE Awards. (We make our stories into a movie and send them to the Made Awards.)

For my talent development I am doing the creative writing. Today we started looking at fairy tales. We were mainly looking at the characters, plot and setting.

Today we also got a new must do can do sheet. This must do can do is a little time table that we glue into our books.

Bye,

Madison

Teacher comment

Madison, you have learnt a lot this term about being flexible and resilient. You have had to come up with alternatives when things didn’t work the way you had intended. You have had a positive attitude towards the challenges you have come up against during your project, and have worked hard on your time management. Great effort Madison!

Alana

Reflection of the term and Passion Project.

Reflection

Wow, today is the last day term two! So I am going to reflect on what has happened throughout the term. So two things that I enjoyed this term.... I have enjoyed the Current Affairs task on Happy Feet, the penguin, and making my posters for my passion project. Something I wished happened was that I was sure of what I was doing for my passion project earlier in the term and had sent my toys and books up to Christchurch already.

Passion Project.

Today I have finished my posters and I have put up one on the noticeboard at Enrich. Tomorrow I need to get two boxes and stick up my other 12 posters at Salford School. I am hoping to get this passion project finished so I can send the toys and books away soon!

Enjoy the holidays!

From Madison :)

Current Affairs.

Hi,

This week I did current affairs. Current affairs this week was about the Empreror Penguin that has visited Wellington. Their were 3 questions in current affairs and you have to find the answer or it could be your opinion. This Empreror Penguin was found on Peka Peka Beach in Wellington.

This penguin was called Happy Feet. Happy Feet got operated on by the best surgeon in Wellington. Some vets helped to get the sticks and sand out.

Bye!

Madison :) ;) :0