Room 2 2014

Room 2 2014

Friday, 30 August 2013

Dino Quest

Dino Quest

Over the past week Room 2 have been creating a narrative together called 'Dino Quest'. 
We had a quick brainstorm about possible topics and then we voted to see which topic was most popular. 
From there we all worked together to create the
  •  title
  • setting
  • characters
  • story line
  • major problem 
We then individually came up with an ending to 'Dino Quest', we had decided whether we wanted a happy or a sad ending.

Below is the beginning of 'Dino Quest' that Room 2 wrote together. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Dino Quest

Long, long ago in a Dinosaur land faraway lived threeTriceratops. 
These three dinosaurs were the friendliest dinosaurs in all the land, because they always saved stray eggs, and took them home to care for them until they were ready to hatch. They did this even for their enemies eggs. 
The Triceratops lived in a magnificent cave, it had drawings of all of the different dinosaurs in the land, and when a new egg hatched they would draw its picture on the cave wall aswell.

Not so far away lived an evil and nasty T Rex. This T Rex was the king of the dinosaurs because of his astounding fighting skills. All of the Dinosaurs bowed down to him and didn’t dare stand up to him. Little did the T-Rex know what wonderful things the Triceratops were doing.
The Triceratops had managed to stay out of the T Rex’s way and he didn’t know they even existed.

The T Rex had many little messengers around the Dino land, his favourite and most loyal messenger was a Dinosaur called Velociraptor. Velociraptor was a tiny, sneaky and fast creature that roamed around and spied on the dinosaurs.

One day the Triceratops were out on another egg hunt. They happened to come across a huge green egg with yellow spots on it. One of the triceratops warned the others that it looked a lot like a T Rex egg, and that they should be very cautious and careful to make sure the mother was nowhere to be seen. 
The other two triceratops said “Don’t be silly, we can’t leave here!” “What if another prediator comes along and eats it?!” So they decided to take it anyway. They carefully carried the precious egg home to their cave, and put it to rest on a homemade incubator made out of mud, twig and grass.

Later on in Dino land the T-Rex came home from the lake where he was hunting dinosaurs that were drinking and swimming at lake. He soon realised that his egg had disappeared. The T-Rex was furious! The T-Rex roared as loud as he could for his messengers.
 When his loyal messenger arrived T-Rex said to him “FIND MY EGG OR YOU WILL BE TOMORROWS DINNER!!!!”
The messenger ran as fast as he could to go and find his masters egg. The sneaky Velociraptor was about to give up his day long search when he discovered the cave of the Triceratops. He quietly snuck inside to take a closer look. To his surprise he found the egg that matched the T-Rex description, it was green with yellow spots.
 He hurried back to his master to tell him his discovery.

When the T-Rex heard the news he let out a tremendous roar that rattled the entire Dino Land. He then stomped furiously across Dino land destroying anything and everything that got in his way! When he reached the cave he smashed the opening to the cave into smithereens ! The triceratops got an awful fright but luckily they were prepared for unexpected visitors. 
By Room 2





Miller's ending to the Dino Quest narrative....
The T-Rex did a roar and it was so loud that it made rocks fall on the cave entrance, so the T-Rex couldn't get in. 
He tried all day long but he couldn't get in so he went, and when he went he said "I will be in there one day".
The next day when the triceratops woke up the entrance was smashed open adn the eggs and other live dinosaurs were gone!!! The first triceratops woke up his other brother's. He said "the eggs are gone." 
Then they heard a noise and it was T-Rex walking away saying "I told you i would get in there one day". 
Then the triceratops charged at him and butted him. He finally died so they cooked him, and then set free the other dinosaurs, and ate him, they said "We ate you up instead".
The End

Kai's ending to the Dino Quest narrative...
The triceratops had put a net on the roof and a button on the floor, so when an unexpected visitor come and steps on the button it will send the net down. 
The T-Rex did step on the button and the net fell on him. The Triceratops were saying " You shouldn't have stepped on that button mate!" 
After that they took the T-Rex to a private place where they could talk to him.
When the T-Rex heard all of this he decided to become good. So after that the T-Rex lived with the Triceratops and lived happily ever after.
The End

Meretene's ending to the Dino Quest narrative...
Then the T-Rex said "lets have a fight!" "If I win I get my egg, if I lose you keep my egg! Deal?" 
Then one of the triceratops said "no" "We are just looking after the eggs that we..." The T-Rex said "I don't care". So they had a big battle. Three triceratops vs T-Rex. They both nearly smashed the egg into smithereens. But luckily they missed. 
So when they just started one triceratops pressed a button. The T-Rex got trapped.
After that a very long time after the baby T-Rex hatched. So they let the baby T-Rex go.
The End

Faith's ending to the Dino Quest narrative...
The three triceratops had been planning a trap for years and waited a long time to use it. One of the triceratops disturbed the T-Rex by running round and screaming while the other two dinosaurs grabbed the egg and put it where they found it.
When they got back they tied a net to the cave and let it down on the T-Rex and locked him in a dungeon far far away where he was never seen again.
As for the other little dinosaur the Velciraptor he got thrown far far away where he was never seen again. 
They lived happily ever after.
The End


Birthday Time!

Happy Birthday

Today it was Faith and also Mr Campbell birthday. Faith was very kind and brought in a delicious fudge cake and some licorice sticks to share- thanks Faith!!

Happy Birthday Faith and Mr Campbell!


Narrative's

Narrative writing


Our writing focus this term is Narratives. We have been learning all about the different aspects that we need to include in our writing to make a good narrative.


Here is the story mountain that we climb when writing our narratives


We also use the 'Tips For Writing Stories' as a checklist to make sure we have included everything we need in our narratives

Thursday, 29 August 2013

Cool School's

I Statements...

We are learning about what conflict is and how to solve our conflicts/ problems ourselves, or by using a peer mediator to guide us towards finding solutions to our problems.


Today we worked in buddies to come up with "I Statements" so that we can use them in different situations to show how we are feeling and why we are feeling this way. 

An I statement should look like this...


I feel...
When...
Because...

Here are some of our responses along with the different scenarios

"Stop bugging me. Can't you see I've got things to do?"
  • I feel angry when you talk to me like that because it hurts my feelings By Wyatt and Nathan
  • I feel furious when you talk to me like that because it is really mean. By Kayden and Miller
  •  I feel sad when you talked to me like that because I only wanted to tell you something. By Aimee and Delfi
  • I feel sad when you talk to me like that because it hurts my feelings. By Ciara and Ata
Your friend just called you a name that you really hate
  • I feel really sad and embarrassed when you call me that because that is mean. By James and Wade
  • I feel sad when you say that to me because it's annoying. By Ollie and Luc
  • I feel angry when you called names in front of the class because it made me upset. By Danny and Meretene
  • I feel really frustrated when i heard that because it really hurt my feeling and it nearly made me cry. By Ivan and Kees
"You always make me take out the rubbish"
  • I feel angry when you keep telling me to take the rubbish out because I do it all the time. By Paige and Dan
  • I feel really sad when you make me take out the rubbish because it is not my turn to take it out. By Caleb and Carter
Your best friend just brought back something they borrowed from you that is broken
  • I feel annoyed because I just bought that new train and i didn't want it broken. By Imogen and Callum
  • I feel sad because I let you borrow my toy and you broke it. I was going to play with it but now its broken. By Michael and Kai
  • I feel mad that you broke my toy because it is my favourite. By Katie and Jacob
  • I feel sad because you broke my toy when I wanted to play with it. By Renee and Jack

You friend helped you with some homework that you were having trouble with
  • I feel happy when you help me with my homework because it was really hard. By Faith and Lucas