Room 10 Writing planning
Term 4, 2017
Immersion Assembly Writing
Monday: Immersion Assembly.�- Read aloud�- Discuss the topic for this term.�- Students to add their ideas/vocab to the padlet - explain how this is to help each other.�- Planning for writing.�- Timer - 35 minutes to write.
Wednesday: If needed, use today to complete writing task from Monday.�- If finished, spend today free writing about anything you already know about music: think about cultural/religious aspects of your life. Do you play an instrument? Is your voice a musical instrument?
Recount Writing
Tennis ball race - using nothing but your nose. Equipment: 15 tennis balls�Blindfold aim. Equipment - soft toys or mini bean bags; blindfolds�Invisible seats illusion.�Freeze. Stand in a circle. One person walks into the middle and freezes in a pose. A second person enters the scene and continues the scene. Call out freeze. First person leaves. Next person comes into the scene and takes it in another direction.
While activity occurs, use a range of language, rather than “and then…and then...and then.” Use language such as: “After that, following this, next, Suddenly, All of a sudden.” �Language: acting; freeze; frozen; swap; emotions; feelings; scared; nervous; uncertain; funny; hilarious.�Paragraphs: �Intro: What, when, where, who, why, how. Describe the setting and who is there.�Paragraph 1: Walking down to the field. What are you thinking? What do you see/ hear? �Paragraph 2: Instructions and starting the game. How do you feel? Do you understand or are you confused?�Paragraph 3: Your turn.�Conclusion: Your opinion. Would you play this again? Were people playing fairly?�Follow the easTTle protocols - treat this like an actual test.
Links: Recount Writing; acting without words
Expressing music in different ways
Tuesday: As a class, listen to a song. Discuss how there are fast sections and slower sections. Discuss how the animation tells as story.
Vocab: Fast/ slow/ piano/ forte/ loud/ soft/ accelerating/ slowing down/ staccato/ legato
Listen to a second piece of music. Listen through once. Second time through, give students a piece of paper to draw a picture as they listen. Students to talk to their classmate about the different pictures they have drawn. What does this tell us? Why does everyone have different pictures? Do you think the composer had a story in their mind when they wrote the music? What do you think their story was?
Music: Flight of the bumblebee
A concert goes wrong!
Monday: �- Discuss how a concert could potentially go wrong.�- Share ideas.�- How could you be more creative? What could go wrong now? Use your imagination!�- Plan for writing (boxes on the doc).�- Begin writing
Wednesday: Proof-reading. Could you alter your vocab? What vocab could you change to make your writing more interesting? Have you captured your audience in the first couple of sentences? How could you change the first sentences to make it more interesting? Does your writing make sense? Get a friend to read it? Create a screencast of yourself reading it - make changes as you go if you realise something doesn’t sound right.
Friday: picture and share on your blog.
End of Year Reflection
Monday: Explore the Summer learning journey resources (2016/2017). Create 1-2 blog posts by choosing several tasks from this summer learning journey.
Tuesday: Give students a chance to sign up for the Summer Learning Journey (2017/2018). Give students a chance to go through their blog and post any drafts which are sitting there. Check through final drives - is everything organised? Remind students to be filing any new work which they create. Students to move anything from a desktop into their folders on the server. Students to share their music creations with me so we can share them on their blogs. Photos of their instruments which they created. Kiwi Kapers concert feedback.
Students to use the template to create an end of year reflection. �Students to discuss what they have learned in literacy this year. What challenges they have overcome. �Students to discuss what they want to focus on as their next step at the start of 2018 in literacy (1 reading and 1 writing focus). Meet in learning groups to discuss this further.�Students to write their blog post. Add a photo to express your feelings of how your learning went this year.