
Welcome to Room 8 Blogsite. We are a Year 3/4 class at Our Lady of the Assumption School, Christchurch, New Zealand. Our teacher is Mister A. This blog is for positive communication between Room 8 ALLSTARS. Please feel free to comment on our blog. We hope you enjoy our blog.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Komodo Dragon Descriptive Writing Competition

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Nature's Perfect Predators - Komodo Dragon
The link above is to a clip from Animal Planet about the Komodo Dragon.
Competition:
Watch the clip and then post a descriptive paragraph/sentence about the Komodo Dragon.
The best description will receive a prize in the first week of Term 2.
Good Luck
Mister A
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Air Jaws
Air Jaws!
The students in the Room 8 writing class have been learning about sequencing our ideas in narrative writing. This has helped in students learning to write in paragraphs. Some of their ideas made fantastic reading and I wanted to share their superb learning. The context of the narrative description was on 'Air Jaws', sharks located in the waters around South Africa that breach the water.
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa. The big shark is swimming round in the murky waters it looks up and sees a baby seal swimming up the top of the waters happily. Suddenly the shark lunges out of the water and rips the seal in bits. The poor seal is chewed and ripped to shreds.
The scary shark only breach out of the water in South Africa where they have deep dark murky waters so they can pick up enough speed to jump out of the water.
When the shark has finished, he swims out to sea.
By Evelyn P
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The powerful predator stalks his prey. The monster swims right down deep and then he zips back up and lunges out of the blue and snaps his prey.
When the monster has finished his delicious prey, the monster goes to find some more delicious food.
The powerful predator saw a burst of blood and then the monster swam up to the helpless seal and lunges up to the blue sky.
The seal is gone before he knew a monster of the sea was near.
By Luka B
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The brave humungous king of the ocean is a fully skilled silent killer. He is beastly vicious animal that can breach out of high waters. The enormous air jaws have razor sharp teeth. Its scaly body can protect him from anything.
The fast fierce king devours any animal or sea creature it can seek. The giant shark explores the murky waters knowing that he is the boss. The scary air jaws jumps twists and turns because of how smart he thinks he is with his cunning plan.
Sadly his plan worked and there are not a big number of seals left in the ocean; and there is nothing we can do about it. I hope you have learned as much about the vicious remarkable air jaws!
By Isabella B
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The great white ginormous shark is in the deep of the water and look's up with his beady eyes. Suddenly he finds a little brown seal pup but he can't stand just looking at the seal pup. So he goes 50 kilometres up at the little innocent seal pup. He gains his speed slowly, the mini seal looks down because he hears something.
He sees who it is; it is the Great White Shark. The seal pup feels alarmed. The seal pup was eaten.
In conclusion 'Air jaws' is a vicious enemy of seals.
By Jed B
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The beastly sea enemy has very scary razor sharp teeth and likes to lunge out of the murky waters to feed on his prey.
The monster is very brave but very scary especially when encircling innocent seals. Seal pups only swim on top of the water and the great white shark sees them and eats them up.
The great white shark devours his prey with his humungous sharp teeth while lunging out of the water. The monster sharks are very fierce and stealth.
By Piper A
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The lunging killer senses some blood from a seal, he lunges up at the seal 50 kilometres per hour. Snap! The seal is gone in three large gulps.
Then he tries to find his next prey. It's real hard to sense the seal because of the blood.
The beastly killer thinks it's the dark red sea. Suddenly the great white hears a seal pup scoottering across the top of the ocean like a motorbike.
The starving beastly killer was so hungry that he went sprinting so fast that he missed him. Oh dang!
By Samuel S
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The killer monster smells a drop of blood from the top of the ocean. The dangerous killer is coming up with a high speed of 60 kilometres per hour. Finally the killer comes up and rips the seal apart into three slippery pieces. The killer lunges and eats piece by piece.
The monster is well adapted to the South African waters and will love its easy prey to catch.
In the end 'Air Jaws' is a vicious hunter.
By Christian McC
The big ginormous shark lunges and lurks in the under waters. The great white shark is well adapted to the murky waters of South Africa.
The scary 'air jaws' is hunting his prey and then he spots, and encircles the horrified seal. As time goes by the mother seal appears and about thirty seconds later the young seal is gone. The mother seal is terrified and off goes the shark.
All of a sudden the same shark is injured so the mother rushes over and the razor sharp teeth open up. The mother fled away so the shark releases the young seal.
By Caleb S
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Air Jaws

TGhe beastly sea enemy has very scary razor sharp teeth and likes to lunge out of the murky waters to feed on his prey.
The monster is very brave but very scary especially when encircling innocent seals. Seal pups only swim on top of the water and the Great White Shark sees them and eats them up.
To be continued.
By Piper A
Fantastic description Piper. I am pleased you have used a variety of sentence starters and key words from our brainstorm. Excellent! Keep up the great writing.
Mister A
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Air Jaws - Descriptive Writing
Next week, we will be looking at 'Air Jaws'. These great white sharks fly out of the water. The video was from 'Discovery Channel' originally and I located this clip on YouTube.
The video shows these giant well-designed predators leaping from the water. The 'seal' is fake and was made to tempt the sharks to jump from the water.
No seals were harmed in the making of this film.
So we are prepared for our next lesson I would like you to watch this clip and post as many descriptive words and sentences on the blog. On Monday we will use these words as a start to our brainstorms.
Keep up the great work!
Mister A
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Orca
One day there was an enormous killer whale swimming with his pod of friends Toto and Momo. They raced around the sea.
The angry silly killer whale was gliding through the water, then snap! He’s caught a helpless overweight seal. He rips the seal apart into tiny pieces and that’s the end of the seal. Then he floats off away through the dark deep blue sea to find his next prey.
The silly killer whale was still floating round with his friends and then suddenly a beach ball came out from the beach. A thick seal goes to get it, snap! The killer whale plays with the beach ball and then chucks the beach ball fiercely onto the shore.
By Samuel S

The Killer Whale

The enormous brightly coloured black and white killer whale works in pods and is cunning, quick and fierce. He can leap out of the high waters, and land directly on its prey, not killing it but training itself by throwing the prey up in the air and catching it with the tip of the amazing killer whales nose.
The shiny black and white killer whale doesn’t harm the seal but brings it back to the shore; no one knows why all the rest he caught he ate.
The big killer whale could scare anything with his beady eyes and scary skills. Most seals don’t like going in the sea.
By Isabella B
Monday, February 22, 2010
Descriptive Writing - Gustave The Crocodile



Thursday, February 18, 2010
Gustave the Crocodile
Gustave is a massive male Nile crocodile living in Burundi. In 2004 he was estimated to be 60 years old, 20 feet (6.1 m) in length and to weigh around 1 ton, making him the largest confirmed crocodile ever seen in Africa. (Wikipedia)Post as many descriptive words as you can about this enormous fierce predator.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Hungry Tiger
The tiger growled with a fierce look on his face. He was still hungry! He was stomping through the mud in the forest. He was looking for something. He did not glimpse a thing.
The tiger ran back to his lovely warm hut of sticks and fell asleep. The tiger woke up in the middle of midnight hearing something running through the forest, but it was just a dream.
By Emma H-F

