Casebrook Speech Competiton

Our Year 7s set an incredibly high bar for public speaking this year! Room 16 is so proud of Remi and Mase for REPresenting themselves and our class so well. 

Huge congratulations to Remi for being named one of the Top Year 7 Speakers!

Tim Tam Slam

For writing, we have started to look at procedural writing. We have been focussing on writing instructions that are clear and sequenced in chronological order.

We used the Tim Tam Slam as an igniter to engage us in our procedural writing. Once we had completed our writing we followed our instructions and completed the Tim Tam Slam.

This proved to be a very engaging, yummy and messy activity.

Online Learning - Sentence Styles

This week for our Daily Writing Challenges we have been learning how to use the Explore the Subject and Em-Dash Sentence Styles. These sentences change up our writing and make it interesting for the reader.

Check out some great examples of these sentences from students writing this week.

Walter, who is a racoon, likes to explore. - Written By Makiya.

Walter and his family, who are going on a road trip together, are all racoons. - Written by Keela.

Walter, an adventurous little racoon, who always got into trouble. - Written by Olie.

Walter, who is a local sports star in Timaru, gets paid to play rugby league for New Zealand. - Written by Monique. 

Walter, who loves playing the guitar, was in the back of the car. - Written by Boraq.

Walter is not known to be very good at driving, mostly because he’s a racoon, in fact his whole family are racoons. - Written by Luke.

I am complaining about my wet fur—sodden and about to get hypothermia—it is most disturbing and cold. - Written by Makiya.

I mean you Ashley—so careless and selfish—took me out in the rain and thought it was a good idea. - Written by Holly.

My owner—a moron—thought a leaf was going to not make me get wet. - Written by Boraq.

My owner Jason—forgetful and doubtful—forgot to check the weather report before taking me for a walk, again. - Written by Ash.

Daily Writing Challenge - Tricky Tuesday

Today for our Daily Writing Challenge we had to come up with a sentence with exactly 17 words following the prompt we were given.

One sentence sounds easy - but 17 words and trying to make it descriptive is a challenge!

Agatha, a child monster, an annoying little brat, a very weird girl and also very very talkative.
- Written By Boraq.

What Agatha saw, was a majestical quite big and chunky animal, by the name of the Turtle.
- Written by Dan.

Agatha saw something with short brown hair, something with big scary horns, something ten times her size.
- Written by Liam. 

Agatha just spotted a colourful, fluffy looking flying monkey, it wooshed past her like a speeding car.
- Written by Olie.

Agatha was searching for the biggest and scariest creature alive and it was a big slimy snail.
- Written by Phoenix.

Agatha used her big black binoculars and spotted some small colourful birds high in the blue sky.
- Written by Sophia.

Agatha looked through the binoculars, to see a humongous monster, as her heartbeats loudly like a drum.
- Written by Wiparata.

Moment in Time Writing T3 2019

This week we watched a Nike football commercial to prompt us for our Moment in Time writing. Once we watched the video we then had to write about the 'moment the winning goal was scored' or the 'moment the winning goal was missed'.

We focussed on describing all the elements in that moment of time and using the five senses to build an image in the mind of the reader.

Explain That! T2 2019

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about explanation writing. We have been focussing on structuring our writing correctly and using technical language.

We have been explaining things such as how earthquakes occur, how volcanos erupt, what extreme sport is, what a balanced diet is and more.

Write That Essay Lesson

Today we were lucky to have Andrew from Write That Essay come in and take a lesson with us. Write That Essay is an online writing programme that all Year 7 classes are using this year. It was awesome to have Andrew take such an engaging lesson and show how great the programme is.

Letter Writing T2 2019

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about the Tangiwai Disaster. After researching, completing activities and watching documentaries around the disaster we wrote letters of our experience as if we were a survivor.

We have been focussing on recounting the main events in detail, writing in first person and using formal language.

Acrostic Poems T1 2019

This week we have been writing acrostic poems about our Adventure Days. We have been focussing on being descriptive and using language features.

Sense Poems T1 2019

This week we have been writing sense poems about our Adventure Days. We have been focussing on being descriptive by using descriptive language and language features such as similes and personification.

Speech Finals 2017

Well done to Dylan and Kaitlyn who represented our class at the Year 7 Speech Finals. Dylan presented a speech on Endangered Animals and Kaitlyn presented a speech on Why you should own a pet.

Kaitlyn made it through to the School Finals and will now represent Casebrook at the Rotary Speech Comp.

Collab Writing - T3 2017

This term we have been doing writing with our collab class Room 10. This has been a great opportunity for students to work with other students and Mr Leys. Throughout the term we have been working on different writing tasks and attending workshops in the areas students have identified they need to improve on.

Check out some of the great pieces of writing for this term that have been posted to students learning blogs.

You can check out student learning blogs by clicking on the students name on the right hand side of this blog.

Click here to read Alexis's My Whānau Story

Click here to read Ravnit's My Whānau Story

Click here to read Emma's My Whānau Story

Click here to read Zion's Persuasive Speech

Click here to read Drelyn's Persuasive Speech

Click here to read Alyssa's Persuasive Speech

Information Reports

Check out some of the information reports that students have posted to their learning blogs. These reports are on the evolution of McDonalds and how they have evolved into a multi-billion dollar business.

You can check out their blogs by clicking on the students name on the right hand side of this blog.

Click here to read Kaitlyn's report

Click here to read Sam's report

Click here to read Deana's report

Creative Writing T2 2017

Check out some of the great pieces of creative writing that students have posted to their learning blogs.

You can check out their blogs by clicking on the students name on the right hand side of this blog.

Click here to read Zion's writing

Click here to read Jess's writing

Click here to read Ruby's writing

Procedural Writing T2 2017

As part of our procedural writing assessment we used our piece of writing to create 'how to' videos. This was a great authentic learning experience. Check out the videos below, you may learn something new.

Watch in HD for better viewing.

Click here to go to our class Youtube Channel

The Tim Tam Slam T2 2017

In writing we have started to look at procedural writing. We have been focussing on writing instructions that are clear and sequenced in chronological order.

We used the Tim Tam Slam as an igniter to engage us in our procedural writing. Once we had completed our writing we followed our instructions and completed the Tim Tam Slam.

This proved to be a very engaging, yummy and messy activity.