Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Garageband

Today Katie taught us how to use Garageband, it was awesome.

We learnt how to change the voices to fit what character was speaking. 
We also learnt how to put pictures onto Garageband and to time them with our speaking

 Before we did that Katie read us a chapter of Matilda, we are reading Matilda
because it was written by Roald Dahl and he uses heaps of descriptive words.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Story Writing!

This week for Talent Development we looked at 
Roald Dahl's book "Matilda" - it is awesome. We also listened to an interview on his website! 
We are trying some of the things he does in his writing for our own stories to make them better!
One of my favourite things he did in his stories is word pictures, that is when you
use adjectives to make your characters sound more interesting so that you can picture them in your head!

Talent Development!

Last week during Talent Development Sophie and I were writing our script for our story but we haven't finished it yet we still have to add some things in to make it better!
I hope that when we are finished that it's an amazing story because 
we will be entering it into the New Zealand MADE Awards!
Sophie and I are going to be the voices of the characters so
it is like we are actually the characters!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Talent Development!

Today for Talent Development we started planing our narrative story.
It was awesome!

I am writing my story about a girl in a plane crash.
We had to sort out every section in a narrative so that it is perfect!

I haven't finished my plan yet but I hope it is going to be good!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Term 3 Talent Development

Today was the first day of the term at Enrich so we got to pick what Talent Development we are going to do.

There were three options, Documentary making, Story Writing and Art.
I picked story writing.
Today we started by reading fairy tales and seeing what things they have in common and what things are different.

When we have finished making our stories we are going to enter them into the MADE Awards and the prize is an i-pad for Enrich!