What's happening in our world?

This new section is for you to post your ideas about any current events that are happening to you and around you, be they in our country or somewhere else in the world. You may post links to articles that you have found, video clips that may be of interest or anything related to your post. It is also important that you respond to the article clearly and justify your opinions. Post comments and questions related to your current event or to the posts of others. This topic will be ongoing and I hope to see you adding more into here as you find it out.

Some links you may wish to use are: The New Zealand Herald, theStuff news site, TV 3 news, CNN (U.S.A), BBC (U.K), Australian news, TVNZ, or Google news. Any other great sites you find, please include your link.

Speech - Oral Language Examples

In Room 18 we are currently learning about speaking in the form of speeches. We have been looking at presenting through speech and sharing with an audience through a range of situations and topics so far this year.


As a class we came up with some criteria to guide ourselves while speaking:

• We will use good volume by being not too loud and not to soft.
• We will be confident in our delivery.
• We will be clearly spoken. This could be ensuring we are well practiced, use clearly formed words and try not to hesitate during our speech.
• We will face the audience.
• We will use eye contact with all of our audience.
• We will be enthusiastic.
• We will use both body and vocal expression in our speeches. By using things like gesture, movement and facial expression.
• We will try to make our speech interesting to our audience. It should be well written and may contain humour, questions, controversy, quoatations and facts or weird things to hook the audience.

We will be using video to analyse our work. Here are the first samples we will try posting:

It would be most helpful to these children if you could post constructive feedback in relation to our class criteria - Be sure to say which clip or person you are talking to.