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 * ==Monitor Reading== || [[image:Reading_Rewards.png width="267" height="86" link="http://www.reading-rewards.com/pls/apex/f?p=501:60:2584625230145170::NO:60:P60_ID,P_LAST_PAGE:1583%2C74"]]

We have a class online Book Community. We have group goals and target we want to reach. When students read they should record in the back of their homework and reading books how long they read for and keep a track of how many books they have read. When it is their turn on the computer they should input all of this data onto the Reading Rewards site by clicking on the picture above and signing into the website. We then get graphs showing how many books the class has read and we can see how far we are away from meeting our termly targets. Students may be asked to write book reviews and to discuss books they enjoyed or wouldn't recommend. This is a team effort so please do not cheapen our efforts by entering false data into our space. You must finish a book reading every word in the book for it to count into the book count. Minutes reading still count if you do not finish a book. You will not be asked to review a book that you have not finished. This is a closed space, people in other book communities can not see what your write and you can not access other parts of this website. || At times you will be asked to contribute news to the class blog via a written report or a podcast. If you need some guidelines to help you with this activity you can find these by clicking on the picture above. ||
 * ==Blog Post or Podcast== || [[image:news.gif link="oral language"]]
 * ==Acrostic Poem ==

[|Acrostic Poem]

[|Read other children's Acrostic Poems] || ||
 * ==Alphabet Challenge == || This is a Thinkers Key activity. You need to think of a word for every letter of the alphabet that has something to do with the topic you have been given. see the example below.[[image:thinkers_key.jpg align="right"]]

New Zealand

A- All Black B- Beaches C-Christchurch D-Dog trialing

etc ||
 * ==Making a Poster == || There are lots of parts to making a poster. You need to collect information under different headings and then write this under each heading.

Then you must arrange this information around pictures.

To start find some information and sort it under the heading you have been given, then find one picture for each piece of information.

Read more about [|what makes a good poster], this is for teenagers so there are lots of tips but your posters do not have to be a big as these ones- unless you want them to.

[|Make your poster online]

To collect the pictures, use the right mouse button, select copy picture. Open a word document and copy the picture on to this. Save the document in STUDENT/ Room 16 and then under your name. Or you can photocopy pictures from books in the classroom. ||
 * ==Making Models (Diorama) == || This is when you gather and arrange materials to make a model which shows a setting. This is usually made in a box but you can be inventive.

You could use many things you have at home or at school to make your model, playdoh or other materials may be useful to have a base. you must ask Miss McLean before you use anything from the classroom to make your model.

[|How to make a diorama]

[|See some dioramas that other children have made.]

[|Other dioramas]

Check out these models. They may show an environment, a structure or how people live in a certain time or place. They might give you some ideas or inspire you with your own model.

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 * ==Making a Brochure== || [[image:Brochure.png link="http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/"]] ||
 * ==Charts and Graphs== || [|Make your own Charts and Graphs with your data on Chartle] ||
 * ==Making an Audio Book== || Make an Audio Book ||
 * ==Stop Motion Animation== || [|Training for making a stop motion animation] ||
 * ==Cartooning and Comic Life== || [|Information about cartooning] ||