For this predicting activity, a word cloud was made using Wordle. The word cloud was generated by entering the book’s blurb into Wordle. If you are familiar with Wordle, you will know that the more often a word occurs, the larger the word in the word cloud.

To participate in this activity, view the word cloud with your class, and discuss your predictions

I BELIEVE IT IS ABOUT A BOY WHO FINDS A FOX CALLED PAX- ELIJAH

PETER’S GRANDFATHER DIED IN THE WAR AND WAS GIVEN THE FOX AS A TOKEN OF SIGNIFICANCE . THE FOX IS A FIGURINE THAT HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN GENERATIONS- EMMA

I THINK THAT PETER FINDS THE FOX AND THEN HE HAS TO GO TO WAR AND MUST LEAVE THE FOX AT HOME.- EDWARD

PETER HAS TO GO TO WAR AND LEAVE THE FOX AND THE FOX IS GOIGN TO TRY AND FIND HIM.- KIARA-LILY

Along with our student blogs, we are now participating in the Global Read Aloud. The Global Read Aloud involves reading a book at the same time as other schools around the world and making interactive global connections through classroom activities based on comprehension tasks. This year’s book we will be reading is Pax by Sarah Pennypacker. Our comprehension tasks will be posted and linked onto student class blogs.

Well we have started our Global Read Aloud. Our book is Fish in A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt . We have already started some great activities and our class is really enjoying reading the book so far.

CHAPTER ONE-FOUR

Below is a snapshot of the SKETCHNOTING activity.  Students were asked to jot down some images and thoughts about what they had read so far.