Toppling

 This book is named Toppling, Toppling is a great book inspired for little kids going through tough things in life. Toppling was illustrated by Sally Murphy, an artist who likes to write about interesting and creative things. This book is about a little boy with a big addiction to Dominos, his family thinks it’s weird but he thinks it is a great thing to have in life. John collects all different kinds of dominos and builds all different courses to knock down just to hear the clack of every block one by one falling down. John collects all different sizes and colours of dominos, he has a tun of tubs under his bed full of them. He has a hard time at school but makes a friend named Dom. Dom always talks about all the good things he has and how his footy team is going really well, but he has cancer. Read Toppling to find out what happens to Dom and how John copes. This book is recommended for students in Year 5 and above. 

Over the past months this course has helped me in all different ways. It helped me be more confident with myself when reading out loud. It has helped me read more complicated books than I did before.

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How to create a blogpost

Hi R3 Readers,

We would love to see each week what you have been reading for independent reading. Use the following instructions to help you post about your reading experiences onto our Book Babble blog.

This slideshow will show you how to post. Use the arrows to move through the slides if they move too fast!

We can't wait to read your posts!

Blogging Guidelines

Each week we would like you to post to this blog. Your audience is other students from your school's R3 group as well as some from other schools in the diocese. Your teacher and other R3 teachers will read and may comment on your blogs posts. It would be great if you could even comment on other students' posts.

What should we blog about?

• Tell your readers about something you have been reading this week (either in the group or your own free choice reading).

• Also share what you are learning about yourself as a reader and things you are working on to improve your reading.  

Expectations of your blog post:

Content	As others will be reading the blog it will be important that you think about/plan your post to ensure it makes sense and is interesting for the reader. You might consider including a photo of the text or even some video (where you might read a section of the text) to engage the audience. You might even like to upload an example of something you have done in response to your reading.
Length	A minimum of 2 paragraphs - one about what you are reading, and one focused on self-reflection and goal-setting
Structure	You might retell or summarise one of the texts that you have been reading, ensuring you include the title, author and important details. Your retell or summary could include facts you have learned (from non-fiction) or aspects of the plot that were significant (from fiction). Your self reflection is a chance for you to stop and think about the skills and strategies you have been working on in the group, and how you feel you are going with these, and what you feel you need to do to further improve.
Surface Features	Before you publish your post, make sure you re-read it to check for good grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Privacy	As with all posting in online environments never reveal your surname or details like your phone number or address, and make sure that any photos or videos which you upload are not identifying you publicly. Take photos of book covers and consider using a voiceover, rather than adding a photo or video where the camera is pointing at you.

Scylla the Sea Monster

Scylla The Sea Monster is a myth from ancient Greece from thousands of years ago.  A myth is little bit like a fairy tale, however it explains why something happens. People often told myths because they didn't write their stories down, they passed them down through storytelling.

The story Scylla the sea monster is a story about a story based on a merman falling in love with a beautiful lady. So he went to Circe the sorceress and got a magic love potion. He poured the magic  potion in her bath and instead of loving her it turned her into an ugly sea monster and soon after Scylla turned to stone.

'My Sister Ate My Science Project'

I really enjoyed the whole story of 'My Sister Ate My Science Project', because it was really funny and it entertained me a lot. One of the parts in the story I liked, was when Alex gave Sassy a soda to deflate her. Another part I liked, was when Alex found some old food in the kitchen and old scraps in his school bag to make a science project and Sassy ate it. I thought it was really funny but gross at the same time, but I really enjoyed it. 

By Demiana

Buster to the rescue

 

Lucky Dog Rescued From Baltic Sea

 This was an informative text from The Astonishing Adventures Literacy Network Texts. This text is about a lucky dog that was rescued from the Baltic Sea.  The Baltic Sea is a very cold sea in the Northern Hemisphere off the coast of Poland.  A dog became stranded on an ice floe in the Baltic Sea and cheated death after being rescued by a research ship.

The dog dubbed Baltic by one of the crewman was scooped from the ice and taken onto the ship.  The dog was possibly lost for 2 to 3 days in the cold freezing weather of the Baltic Sea.

Whilst reading the text our R3 group were learning about how to find them main idea of a text.  The main idea of a text is the main thing/topic that you are reading about.  It is what the text is mostly about. We learned that the title, pictures,  captions, repeated ideas, topic and concluding sentences, all help us to work out the main idea.

By Oliver, Ronan, Juaj and Mrs M