Wrap up
Rap wrap up points
- What have you enjoyed about participating in this rap?
- During the rap, what have you learned about:
- the benefits of leading a healthy, active lifestyle?
- the steps needed to write a sports article?
- During the rap, what skills have you developed in:
- using technology to read, write and communicate?
- reading texts?
- any other areas?
- What was the highlight of this rap for you?
The Rap Wrap Up Reflections proforma might be useful to use with students.
Go to the Leave a reply at the bottom of this page to post your response. You will need to log in, post a response and wait for moderation. Your class might wish to respond to the comments from other rappers via the rap blog. Have you checked out the wiki yet?
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 am
What we have enjoyed about the Rap.
3/4SG loved the sharing of ideas and reading other schools’ responses.
Reading The Shaggy Gully Times was fun. The mistakes were clever and funny. Participating on a rap is like being on Facebook. The technology is fun, spontaneous and we can read all the responses straight away.
We look forward to other raps.
Bye for now,
3/4SG -Mowbray PS
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
HOWDY EVERYBODY !
This is 4M from Mowbray public school.
What we have enjoyed about the rap:
The book ‘Shaggy Gully Times’ was the punniest ////funniest never////ever made. Most of the students in our class really enjoyed it. Some students found it a bit hard to follow and did not get all the joke, puns and spoonerisms.
The rap gave us a chance to share lots of ideas online and read other people’s responses as well.
We liked Bruce Whatley’s illustrations – they caught your attention and they were funny and colourful.
We liked how Jackie French wrote the book like it was a newspaper – it made it interesting and funny.
We have enjoyed participating in the rap and look forward to doing other raps.
See you later alligator,
Rebecca, Jessica, Hannah, Lauren, Luis, Connor and Sam – 4M students
Mowbray PS
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Wrap rap up from 3B – Mowbray PS
This is what 3B liked about the rap:
We liked how Jackie French played with words – for example:
* ‘the amazing poo’ instead of zoo
* ‘The inedible theft’ instead of ‘the incredible theft’
* ‘Goo owner’ instead of ‘zoo owner’ and many other funny words.
We also enjoyed Bruce Whatley’s outstanding pictures. You should try reading the book – it’s so funny trust me, it will make you laugh for the rest of your life.
Partaicipating in the rap was good becuase we got to share and compare ideas amongst our classmates and other schools.
We have enjoying our first rap.
That’s all we have to say – see you in a sentery not century!
Bye for now,
Brody, Will, Roshan, Hera, Lauren, 3B – Mowbray PS
Made by Will
September 9th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Howdy Rappers,
This is the first time that we have ever participated in a rap (and now we’re sayong goodbye boo hoo!)
We enjoyed
. writing the sports report and thinking of humorous things to say about our class mates.
. reading The Shaggy Gully Times, especially the misspelt words, funs….oops puns, horror scopes, Match, Hatch, Despatch, illustrations, puzzles and the names of the contributors on the last page of the book.
. sharing ideas with other schools. It would have been good if we’d had a little more time. This was a very busy term for us.
We liked the group discussion and brainstorming ideas with our class mates.
Bye bye fellow rappers. We hope to hear from you next time round.
Ariverdici, au revoir, zia jen, sionara, adios, paalam.
4C Manly Village Rappers.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:07 am
yo rappers,
What have you enjoyed about this rap?
Learning about the Olympics and the participants.
During the rap what have you learned about…
…the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle?
That you can do anything you want as long as you believe in yourself.
…the steps needed to write a sports article?
An interesting title, facts about the sportsperson or sport.
During the rap what skills have you developed in…
…using technology to read, write and communicate?
We learnt how to read others blogs and also post a blog ourself.
…reading texts?
How to skim and scan through newspaper articles in The Shaggy Gully Times.
What was the highlight of this rap for you?
1. Finding out about the Olympians and facts about things to do with Beijing and other places that helped with the Olympics.
2. We also liked reading others blogs – it was interesting to see what others had been thinking.
Keep rapping and now that the rap is over goodbye and rap on!!!
Parkrappers
September 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Hi everyone!
Today we did our Rap Reflections about this wonderful rap!
During the rap, some of us made changes to our healthy, active lifestyles, including:
joining Little Athletics (x2); walking the dogs (x2); playing a new sport; learning badminton; going to bed one hour earlier (x2); drinking more water; eating less chocolate; going running (x2); and eating carrots.
We were lucky to have a visit from former Australian Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, on Friday. She came with Christie and John from Little Athletics. Melinda told us to always do your best, run with your head straight (pretending there’s an apple balancing on your head), don’t look back, and always move your arms as fast as your legs. Melinda showed us her gold, silver and bronze medals.
During the rap, we learned to write clever sports articles by:
uploading text to the blog; sharing our ideas with others (x2); making up clever jokes and headlines; looking at how the illustrations can change the meaning of the words.
The highlights of this rap were:
uploading our rap responses to the blog; knowing other people were reading our work; knowing that learning can be fun; working together in small groups; naming Piplup; and talking to other schools.
Thanks for the happy rapping!
Piplup and 3DV Maths @ Penrith PS
September 9th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Hello rappers!
Today the other half of the class also did our Rap Reflections!
During the rap, some of us made changes to our healthy, active lifestyles, including:
learning dancing and cheerleading; more running (x3); playing soccer with the dog – he dribbles the ball and also dribbles on the ball! – (x2); playing football; eating more vegetables; eating less chocolate; putting four things in my lunchbox instead of seven things; running two laps of my house; learning hip hop; and walking to school with my family instead of driving in the car.
Yesterday we learned about cystic fibrosis because our school was chosen to celebrate the start of the “Penrith to Barossa Valley 2008″ car rally!
Two drivers (dressed as clowns) showed us why children with cystic fibrosis can’t breathe properly. The volunteers had to use all their breath to blow up balloons. If you also hold your nose and breathe only through a straw for one minute, it shows you how hard it is to breathe with cystic fibrosis. Then we went out to the street with streamers and posters – and about 55 colourful cars drove by. They tooted their horns and two cars sprayed us with water. It was lots of fun.
During the rap, we learned to write clever sports articles by:
reading the local newspapers; finding jokes in the headlines; writing in small groups; and seeing how illustrations can make normal words funny. “If you only write normal stories they are not as much fun for others.”
The highlights of this rap were:
reading “The Shaggy Gully Times”; learning with the computer; writing articles that make you think; and having fun.
We had lots of fun!
From Phoenix the flying fox and 3DV Maths,
Penrith PS
September 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Welcome to SCHC’s rap wrap up with Phil the Frog,
From participating in this rap, we learned:
How to improve our healthy lifestyle by doing more running; learning to high jump and do shot put for the next Athletics Carnival; and walking around the playground for exercise.
To write an interesting sports report, we:
Made it as true as we could; thought of our ideas and wrote them together; typed our articles on the computer; made up a funny headline; laughed at funny jokes; and shared our work with other schools.
The highlight of this rap was:
Talking about the Olympic Games and Beijing; watching Olympic sports on TV; looking at the sports uniforms brought in by Melinda Gainsford-Taylor; Blake telling us about District Athletics Carnival; making up jokes with words; Phil the Frog teaching Blake to jump higher; finding our school badge on the rap blog.
Robbie says, “The most important message is that it doesn’t matter if you win or if you lose when playing sport. You should just try your best.”
Phil the Frog and SCHC,
Penrith PS
September 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Hello Rappers,
Here are 3456E’s very own comments:
The part I like the best was:-
* There was a lot of people on the Book Rap – by Bismark.
* The news sport report because you got to be a reporter for the day – by Emerson.
* The sport reports because I learnt how to write a report properly with correct language and use a sense of humor – by Kasey.
* When I read a blog about another school I found it interesting – by Chris.
* The Beijing Olympics 2008 because it was exciting to hear about the fireworks – by Bahram.
* The healthy eating – by Jessie.
* The newspaper report because it tells everyone what happened – by Keiasha.
* Being a news reporter for The Shaggy Gully Times – by Selina.
* The Beijing Olympics 2008 because we got to discuss who won the gold medals – by Vincent.
* The newspaper report because it was exciting and interesting to do – by Dean.
* The newspaper report because it was fun to write and become a reporter – by Mark.
* The healthy eating because it helped me eat more healthy food – by Sonya.
* The Beijing Olympics 2008 because it was so interesting – by Roshan.
* Writing in the comments online because you get to see your own comment on the computer.
Thanks to Mrs Keane and all the rappers who read our comments. I loved reading your comments especially the newspaper reports. They were great! I am hoping we can have more time next year to participate because this year we ran out of time – Mrs Xuereb
John Palmer PS Seniors
September 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Hello Fellow Rappers,
Tarro Terrors here. We have enjoyed the rap for lots of reasons, such as working as a team, reading the interesting comments posted by everyone else and just having fun!
We’ve learned it is important to be healthy for lots of reasons, not just for your body.
In order to write a sports article you need to be able to type, have a bit of imagination, know lots of different words to make the article interesting and you need to interview people. We really enjoyed writing ours!
We have developed some new technology skills and we have learned to work together with other students who are not in our classes.
We had lots of ideas for what was the highlight of the wrap. Some thought just hanging out as a group was great, others said it was having fun and still others thought chatting to others was the best!
Thanks for rapping with us and we hope to meet up with some of you in future raps!
Rapping off
The Tarro Terrors
Holly, Emily, Grace, Ashleigh, Harrison, Eliza, Darcie, Aleisha
Our Lady of Lourdes, Tarro
September 17th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Hello for the last time,
We’ve enjoyed this rap blog sooooooooo much – it was an awesome experience.
The best parts of it was when we got to read The $haggy Gully Times and when we wrote our own articles and puns.
We also loved learning about technology and how to use our Smart board.
We loved meeting cyber friends; it was a cool experience. We would love to participate in next year’s book rap, and the year after, and the year after!
We’ve just had Book Week and we learnt a lot about The Shaggy Gully Times. We also had a cartoonist come in and some cool competitions.
In summary we think that this cyber book rap was a great experience for us in Year 4 & 5 & we hope you like this as much as we did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See u next year
Normorappers
September 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
This is the famous Tammy Tortoise of Shaggy Gully with 3H Maths’ rap wrap up:
Changes to our healthy lifestyle:
Doing more running (x2); eating more fruit – pears and strawberries; using little dumbells; making pasta with Dad; riding my bike; eating vegetables I used to hate – such as pumpkin, carrots, corn and minted peas; and playing outside more.
New skills in writing sports articles include:
Headlines with funny jokes; using humour throughout the article; learning about important topics I did not understand, such as cystic fibrosis; learning how to make jokes with words.
Highlights of this rap were:
Having fun with writing; reading “The Shaggy Gully Times”; having toy animal mascots as reporters; finding the jokes in “The Shaggy Gully Times”; writing in small groups is good for people who don’t like writing by themselves; Caitlyn’s funny jokes; Josiah’s funny jokes; bum leaves; sharing and helping each other to do our work.
Thanks for the raps!
Tammy Tortoise and 3H Maths @ Penrith PS
September 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Harry the hairy bunjee spider and 3H Maths do their rap wrap up:
Changes to our healthy lifestyle:
Gymnastics (x2); eating more fruit – bananas; eating vegetables – zucchinis; drinking more water; swimming; joining a baseball team; running (x2).
New skills in writing sports articles include:
Jokes are fun to write; headlines with funny jokes; changing words into jokes; making up a “fun pun” – Josiah is a poet and he doesn’t know it; Jackie French used characters from her earlier books.
Highlights of this rap were:
Writing about our favourite sports; writing funny jokes; reading “The Shaggy Gully Times”; polite reports (police reports); getting a message from Dean who went to another school (John Palmer PS); drippy droppings; Mr McLean wearing his Superman suit in the photo; and being in small groups to help other to do our work.
Bye for now!
Hairy Harry and 3H Maths @ Penrith PS
September 17th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Hi everyone,
This is Selby the talking dog with 4W’s rap wrap up:
Our changes for a healthy life:
Trying new fruit (passionfruit, watermelon); cutting out on junk food, hot chips and oil (x3); going across to the oval more; running more; playing football every day; rollerblading at Penrith Lakes; and combining yukky vegetables with foods I like, such as Chunky Beef Soup or Dinner Winner.
Skills we have developed by writing sports articles:
Using words with two meanings to make puns (x2); using humour to make our writing funnier; using interesting verbs, adverbs and adjectives (x2); making our writing sound dramatic; using CAPITALS in the middle of a sentence for emphasis; using our brains; and checking out what other schools did in previous raps.
Our highlights of this rap:
Having fun; enjoying the rap responses from other classes; doing fun things; finding funny jokes in “The Shaggy Gully Times”; not doing regular class work – this rap did not feel like work, but we were still learning heaps; and looking on the computer for the latest Olympic news.
From Selby and 4W @ Penrith PS
To Duncan Ball and Dr & Mrs Trifle: Selby is ready to come home to Bogusville now. Thank you for letting him help us with the rap.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Mrs Keane, please click here and keep watching!
Regards,
Mr McLean and Penrith PS rappers
September 18th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Hi Mr McLean and Penrith PS rappers,
Congratulations! I did click ‘here’ and left a message. I’m sure all the rappers would love to see Wise Owl’s message.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
September 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hi everyone,
This is Phil the frog and SCHC wrapping up the rap some more, with Mrs Mead (who missed most of the fun)!
We resolve to get fitter by:
Starting to walk again in the mornings (in winter it was too cold and dark); using weights to improve arm muscles; running on weekends to become as fast as Usain Bolt (x2); do shotput to get stronger; signing up for summer cricket; and going bike riding to get ready for winter soccer.
To improve our writing skills, we:
Used our brains to find funny puns in words (like “tyre” and “tire”); thought about Phil the frog’s body, to get ideas about Blake long jumping; put our writing on the blog to share it with students at other schools; thought about our audience; chose different topics to write about (memories, the future, dreams); used our imagination; and wrote fiction and non fiction texts.
Our highlights of the rap were:
Talking about Olympic sports together; watching swimming; watching weightlifting on TV; watching wheelchair basketball (murderball) at the Paralympics; writing information texts for the rap; and watching the vision impaired swimming at the Paralympics.
Thank you for reading our rap responses.
From Phil the frog and SCHC,
Penrith PS
September 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hello Friends!!
Things we have enjoyed about this book rap:
1. Learning about the Olympics.
2. Reading what other schools had to say.
3. Learning about puns and reading The Shaggy Gully Times.
4. Learning about newspaper articles.
5. Reading a book with the word ‘POO’ in it.
6. Being the funniest school in the whole book rap.
Things we have learnt from the book rap:
1. In gymnastics, the girls are usually younger because they need to be flexible.
2. In ancient Olympics women were not allowed to watch the Olympic games, if they did they would be killed!!
3. How to post to a blog.
4.That it’s good to be fit and eat healthy foods, otherwise you will end up like a fattyboombardda, which is not cool!
5. It is important to keep our mouth healthy by brushing our teeth twice a day.
thefullysickids
September 18th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Nian the Chinese dragon and 4/5M wrap up:
Staying healthy
Eat more fruit; eat more vegetables; do swimming (x2); get up and do things at lunchtime, instead of sitting around; exercise – go for jogs; run with the dog around Werrington Lakes; and walk to school – also saves on petrol.
Skills we’ve learnt by book rapping
Finding Jackie French’s deliberate mistakes improves our knowledge of how to use humour in our writing; how to make stories funny; bum leaves are funny; sometimes articles are linked across the double page and the readers have to do the work to link them up; headings and clever titles make us want to read the stories; factual knowledge of dragons helped us to make jokes about them.
Our highlights of the rap
* It was fun learning new things.
* Reading “The Shaggy Gully Times” (x2).
* Making up puns for the joke headlines (x3).
* Working together as a team.
Thanks for the great rapping everyone.
Nian and 4/5M @ Penrith PS.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hi Bloggers,
Blogging was a new experience for us and it was so easy to read everyone’s blogs. (Much better than emailing).
Our healthy changes are
* trying to cut out bad snacks and only have them for special occasions.
* eating fruit as a snack
* choosing water instead of fizzy drinks or fruit juice
* walk to school with friends
* no honey on Weetbix
* Playstation in the morning and playing outside in afternoon
* joining sporting groups like summer soccer, little aths, cricket, basketball, netball, dance and swimming.
Highlights
* Reading “SGT”, which was fun-ee, with my friends
* Posting to the blog
* Reading about what other schools think and do
* Some of the other sports reports were really funny
* Enjoyed co-operating together
Bye from,
Glenhavensprinters.
September 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas. It is great to hear about rap highlights that include:
- working together as a team
- having fun
- posting to the blog
- enjoyed cooperating together
- it was fun learning new things
- finding funny jokes in ‘The Shaggy Gully Times’
- learning about technology and how to use the Smartboard
- and more!
If you have completed your own Reflection sheets, you are most welcome to email or post them to me. Ask your teacher for the contact details.
I hope to rap with you again.
Cheers,
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator, still at Ryde