Tara and Olivet's writing extension.

We have beeen learning about WW1 and the ANZACs. Here is a presentation we made to show our understanding of how we can ask questions, and find information.

Kiranjot's independent writing. "Fimble's Flag"

This year the whole school is focusing on improving our writing. The class has been encouraged to use their chromebooks to further their learning at home. Check out this story that Kiranjot has been crafting over the holidays! Note the cleaver use of speech, and the exciting variety of sentence beginings. . . . . . Date - 8th April 2017. Fimbles florris’s flag It was a lovely sunny day in fimble valley. Florrie was helping baby pom to build a tower, and fimbo and rockit Were having races. Just as florrie put the last block on the top of baby pom’s tower, She heard the tinkling tree tinkling. ‘’I’m getting the fimbling feeling ‘’she cried. ‘’I can feel a twinkling, I can hear a sound, It’s telling me there’s something Waiting to be found! Where is it? Where is it? What could it be? I think it might be over there, Let’s go and see!’’ florrie’s find looked like a Black and white tablecloth stuck to a stick. She waved it in the air. Swoosh! Swoosh! ‘’Oooh, you’ve found a flag!’’ chirped bessis.’’ a special flag! It’s called a chequered flag. You wave it to finish a race.’’ ‘’ fimbo and rockit love rockit “, said florrie. ‘’I’ll go and wave My flay them!’’ all the racing they had done, though, had made rockit and fimbo very hungry. And then all the apples and crumble crackers they had eaten had made them very sleepy… Zzzzzzzzzzz… ‘’fimbo, rockit, wake up! Look what I’ve found!’’ cried florrie. ‘’A special flag you Use to finish a race.’’ ‘’fimbo! Glung! Want to race?’’ said rockit. Zzzzzzzzzzz… ‘’never mind!’’ Said rockit. ‘’I’ll race bessise and roly insttgead. ‘’We’ll start and finish the race here, by pom’s tower”, said florrie. ‘’I ‘m just going to go and eat an apple to give me lots of energy’’,said rockit , Bouncing off. ‘’You start without me. I,m so fast, I’ll easily catch up with bessie and roly!’’ ‘’On your marks… get set… go!’’ shuoted florrie. But what had happened to rockit? Eating an Apple had made rockit sleepy all over again. Zzzzzzzz… baby pom and florrie’s shouting Woke rockit up. ‘’Glung!’’ he glunged,bouncing off the comfy corner. ‘’Oh no! The race!’’ rockit Bounced as fast as he could past the bubble fall. He bounced past the playdips. He bounced past the tinkling tree. He bounced as he had never bounced before. At the finish line, florrie was Holding her flag. Bessie fluttered past. ‘’Bessie’s first’’, she cried. Swoosh! Went the flag. Roly Rolled past ‘’roly’s second’’, she cried. Swoosh! Rockit bounced in at top sheed… ...straigiht into Baby pom’s tower. Crash! ‘’Rockit’s third!’’ florrrie laughed. Swoosh! ‘’Tickle my tadpoles! That was fun, even though i didn’t win!’’ said rockit. ‘’ what’s going on?’’ yawned fimbo, ‘’i ‘m ready for more races now. Anyone want to race?’’ ‘’yes!’’ shouted everyone. Swoosh! Went Florrie’s flay.