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Check out the following link to our "World Famous in New Zealand - Living Museum" presentations!

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Room 10 has been writing descriptions on someone, using personality and physical aspects to boost our thinking. Above is Steve the Robot created by Liban, Michael and Jamin.

We have been discussing "What do great readers do?" This summary sheet outlines strategies that we can use before, during and after reading a text. Trial the strategies with a book you are currently reading. Jackson's Pieces of Me Presentation for his goal setting interview - media type="file" key="Jackson - Pieces of me.swf" width="300" height="300" align="center"

We are currently looking at writing Descriptions and making our own Pieces of ... ICT presentations for our parents/caregivers to see at Goal Setting Interviews. We used Bear Grylls as a character to describe from the series "Man vs Wild". He was recently in New Zealand filming a couple of episodes and was interviewed on Campbell Live. Check out the following link to see the extended interview - [|Bear Grylls interview] media type="custom" key="8594690" align="center"

Here is just an example of a short clip of an episode of Man vs Wild - how would you describe Bears?

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