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Hello fellow quadbloggers!

We're using our Y5 blog with you this week.  Please help us out by completing the top 2 posts - one is all about creating captions for newpaper/magazine photos and the other is a survey that we'd like to use in maths.

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Which picture would you like us to write about for the next 100 Word Challenge?

You have 4 votes per computer. If you are sharing a PC, share the votes - 2 each! These are all by a clever artist/photographer Erik Johansson. Think about which photo could help you write a fun and creative story.

The mysterious pumpkin

Create an exciting story (which can be linked to Halloween if you like but it doesn't have to be) about one of these pumpkins. 

Challenge:

Pack in all these words & phrases:

• glowed softly
• who lived in the crooked house
• whenever

A walk I'll never forget

Enjoy letting your imagination run wild by finishing this story in as close to 100 words as you can. 

Mrs Cole's tip:  Type it in Word first in case you don't get chance to finish - you can count the words there and spell check too! 

Your extra challenge is to try to add these words into your 100 words:

When
If
After
While
My head was spinning

Here is how your story begins...

It was last Saturday when I was taking my dog out for a walk on the moors. As I came over the top of the hill, this strange sight towered in front of me.

Could this be you?

Watch this video and explain why you would or wouldn't want to be an astronaut.

Finger click and "Oh no!"

We loved reading your Let's Get Writing stories from the Pressing the Button story starter.

Use your excellent VCOP skills to entertain us with another story...

Watch this:

http://zimmertwins.com/movie/starters/199947

Mystery box

Watch this very short cartoon clip. 

You challenge is to write a story about what happened before this moment.


Remember to introduce your people, what place they're in, the problem, panic and finally, the peace.

Use your targets and your tremendous descriptions.

Have fun!

"Keep the glass bottles safe!" said Atrus

Atrus found these bottles when he was scuba diving just off the coast from the tusk mountains in J'nanin.  They were on a ship that was shipwrecked in a violent storm.  He has given them to you to keep safe.  

Write a story including the glass bottles.

You must included in your story:
- people
- a place
- a problem
- a panic
- a peaceful ending

Being watched?

Your challenge this week is to pack in the description into 100 words! 

Use the new prompt sheets on the walls around the classroom if you like - hunt for new ways to improve your descriptions!

Can you use this sentence? My heart pounded furiously.

STOP PRESS: !! Myst Announcement !!

I think it's only right that we pause the picture you voted for on the 100 word challenge for a new photograph...

Here's a sneak preview of part of your journey. Use your amazing talent as writers to develop a 100 word story about this picture.

Your challenge is to include with your delightful descriptions:

• A book
• A box
• A key

Shark?

Mountain pathway

I can't wait to hear your 100 word stories linked to this picture.

My extra challenge this week is that you use at least 3 of these adverbs somewhere in your writing.

If you can open sentences with them, EVEN better!

 

• Desperately
• Wildly
• Cautiously
• Softly

You're the great writers.... YOU choose!

Snowboarding writing challenge

Enjoy being creative.  Pack every sentence with juicy words and suspense that just makes me keep on reading!

Below is a sentence that must be somewhere in your writing plus another 100 words.  Use the photo to help your creative ideas.

This weeks prompt: ‘As I was in the air, my heart pounded.’

Click the comments option below to add your story.  Remember to click the Name/URL button to add your name e.g. 6James
Remember this is a creative piece of writing. You MUST use the prompt as it is but it can be anywhere in your writing.
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