The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is amazing.  It is about a lady called Maria and she was going to be a nun but she wasn't cut out for it.  Mother Abby said that she has to look after 7 children.  The children's names are Liesel, Friedrich, Brigitta, Louisa, Kurt, Marta and Gretel. Ever since Miss von Trapp died Captain von Trapp doesn't listen to music or sing and calls his children with a whistle like in the war.  Maria realises why she is there to help them to get ready for when they have a mother.  Maria brings music and singing back to the von Trapp family. Then she realised she was the mother.  She got married to Mr von Trapp.  She was now Mrs von Trapp.

I thought the musical was fabulous. The story was very loving.  Mother Abby was very good at the opera and hit all right notes. The costumes were amazing and at first I thought "how do they get their clothes changed so fast?".  I invited Daisy and Ella from our school to come and talk to the class about what it felt like to be in the Sound of Music.  They were able to answer my question.  There are lots of tricks that go on behind the scenes to make the show seamless.  I have always been obsessed with the story so it was like a dream come true to see the show.

by Claudia

Katie and Jade's Book Trailer - Adventure in the Amazon

Adventure in the Amazon

by Susan Aguilo

By Katie and Jade

Borrowed Light

This term our class went to see the short film festival. There were 15 short films! Then Miss Stubbing had a super idea. We could write a short part from the story from one of the films called borrowed light. It is about a boy or girl (your choice) who took all the lights so everyone could see the meteor shower. We started off by writing a list of words that mean the same thing. We looked in the thesaurus for the meanings of brave,scared,worried and nervous. We had to do it all in 1st person (you as the character).Then we got to choose if the character was a boy or a girl. When we were writing we had to remember to use lots of adjectives and to show don't tell. Then we all sat in a circle and shared our writing. We think that most of the people made you want to keep on reading the story.

by Katie, Charlotte and Jade

Some of our writing:

I am about to grab the last light when I hear heavy breathing behind me.  My heart skips a beat.  I feel petrified.  Slowly I turn my head and I and see someone staring back at me.

by Tom

Creeping toward the shine of the light.  I hear a strange sound coming from the hallway. Extraordinary to see that glowing thing making the house shine.  I feel sorry that I am taking this amazing light.  As quietly as I can I take the light off. Suddenly I hear a person run worriedly.  The person sees me.  I quickly take off all of the lights.  On my way while I was running I took some more lights.

by Kali

I once saw a meteor shower.  As I twisted the first light my heart started to beat faster like lightening speeding super fast. Then I started to feel a bit ok like I was doing the right thing.  Then I popped through the window and then I felt a bit weird like someone was staring at me. I got the lights and turned around.  There was a man there. He picked me up and the lights all smashed and we saw the meteor shower. I felt amazing.

by William

Creeping to a glowing thing covered with moths.  Climbing up the brick wall. Ah! I feel the cramp under my arms.  I hear the creak in the wooden floor.  I feel anxious about doing this but I know that I am doing this for good.  The feeling of courageousness is climbing up from my feet to my brain, when I started I thought that is how all the people will think how bizarre I am.  Suddenly it’s slow motion, I'm in the air then thud! I land on my gluteus maximus with a shock. I feel tense because a man is running after me! Ah! I need to get to my secret base.

by Frankie

I ran down the town taking the lights, streets, houses.  The town was nearly pitch black.  I went back to the old run down observatory to see if it was nearly here.  It was nearly time for it to come.  I had to be quick.  So I went back into town to take the rest of the lights. I felt both fearless and afraid.  When I got to a house I got some lights, then… a man appears in front of me.

by Guy

20 Book Challenge

In Room 10 we are doing the 20 Book Challenge.  We have 2 terms to try and read 20 different books.  They have to be different genres such as fantasy, comedy, non-fiction and historical.  In our readers notebooks we have a chart to show how many books we have read.  When we finish a book we colour in a triangle.  We had a discussion about challenging ourselves to read books that are different and sometimes a bit harder than what we are used to.  The funny thing we found out is that most of our class still keep reading a book even if it's boring! We have hopeful readers in our class!

After we finish reading a book we are going to share our ideas about the book to our classmates.  We will have learning conversations with each other, book "sells" and book swaps. Part of our sharing is going to be bringing books from  home to share with others.

We are going to use our teacher Miss Stubbing as a book idea person. Miss Stubbing reads a lot of books.  She likes to read children's books and young adult fiction as well as adult novels (and picture books!). We are going to use her to help us choose books.