THE LOST SON

Catherine, Harrison and Joshua have created movies based on one paragraph of their retell of the bible story ‘The Lost Son’.

What do you think of their movies?

The Lost Son – Catherine

The Lost Son – Harrison

Joshua’s movie here: 20130919-074223.mov

To help us with our retell writing, we created an iPod Circle, using dialogue to show the characters’ feelings and point of view. Can you guess the characters? Choose from: the father, the eldest son, the youngest son.

The Lost Son – whole class

ALDI MATHS – Measuring Capacity

A group of students have prepared an introductory video to help their parents with the Aldi activity on Family Maths Night. The activity called for the user to takes screenshots of items on the Aldi website, which were sold by capacity. Then they were to be classified into those measured in litres or millilitres.
Thanks Ava, CJ, Catherine, Marcus, Darcy, Elijah, Lucas CO, Harrison and Lauren.
Leave a comment here to tell us what you know about measuring capacity using litres or millilitres.

INTERVIEW WITH GERALDINE

Harrison and Kristian interviewed one of our helpful College office staff, Geraldine. She is a big Sydney Swans fan and she was at the match between the Swans and Collingwood. Geraldine witnessed the Adam Goodes incident, and in this interview she tells us more about it.

What do you think of the Adam Goodes incident? Leave your comment here.

Untitled from brette lockyer on Vimeo.

JUICE INTERVIEW

JUICE INTERVIEW from brette lockyer on Vimeo.

Vimeo not working? Watch here: Juice Interview

Harrison, CJ and Joshua (camera) interview on of the College office staff, Geraldine. We proimsed to design and make her a fresh fruit and vegetable juice. The interviewers are also telling Geraldine about the health benefits of the ingredients.

What ingredients would you use in your favourite juice recipe? What health benefits would there be for your juice?  Tell us in your comment here.

 

THE IRON MAN – QUALITY SENTENCES

Our retell of ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes produced some fabulous quality sentences. Here are a few of them.  Leave a comment to any of the writers, telling them what you liked about their sentences, or giving them tips to improve their writing.

“Then they saw a tail, two horns and two bat-like wings.”  CJ

“It was all over the world with pictures falling off walls, cups and mugs falling off shelves and houses moving side by side.’ SARAH

‘The hill started to shake and shake and SHAKE!’ BREANNA

‘What’s that giant thing in the darkness?’ ADISA-0y

‘”I can’t take it any longer!” shouted the dragon.’ LAUREN

‘”If you don’t accept my challenge, I can’t even bother with you.”‘ MADISON

‘There, in front of you, walking in front the all mighty Iron Man, off into the cliff, then he walks into nothing.’ CATHERINE

‘It was a dark winter night when a weird shape appeared in the sky.’ JOSHUA

‘When he reached the ground, all that was left of the Iron Man was bits of his body.’ HARRISON

‘But the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon said in one week that he needs food or then he will stick his long tongue all around the world! ‘ RAM