Thank you so much for all your hard work and support with the Challenges. This blog has won the Runner Up award from Education Blogs for the Most Influential Blog of the Year and we will now be able to display this badge for a year!

Thank you all once again!

Mrs Skinner

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********** Week#33 Showcase**********

Ansa in Yr.5 at Miriam Lord

Eliza in Yr.6 at St Therese, Torquay, Australia

Rylbroo4 in Grade 5 at Lanigan Elementary

Callum in Yr 3/4 at Richard Heathcote

Simone in yr.6 at Kirkheaton Primary

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We are going to be supporting another organisation in Week #36. It is called ‘Send My Friend to School’ – can you imagine what they do? They are very pleased to be working with us and will be offering some prizes of T-Shirts to special showcase pieces! Make sure you take part next week for more details. Do go and visit their website!

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For this week, we are keeping things simple. We will are going to be joined by some writers who are learning English and they need a prompt that is easy to understand. So the prompt is:-

….. Suddenly I saw …..

As usual, you have 100 words to add to these 3. Please, please, please make sure you visit other entries to leave comments. Some of you are happy to get them but are not supporting other writers.

If you are new to the 100 Word Challenge do read ‘How to Enter the Challenges’ Do get in touch if you still have questions. The link will be open until 9pm on 19th June

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We are all very excited here as 100WC.net has been nominated for an award in the Educational Blog Awards 2012. As if that wasn’t enough, the category it is in is ‘the Most Influential Blog of the Year’! How fantastic is that and how honoured we feel.

Now, being nominated is wonderful but of course we would like to win as this would be a big thank you to the teachers, children and Team100 who work so hard each week. For that to happen we want people to vote for us. You do that by clicking the Education Blog Awards badge below and putting 100wc.net in the box.

The prompt this week is to write a piece of persuasive writing. It can be to tell people about the 100WC and why they should join in or vote for it or something completely different. You must just convince them to do what you want!

As usual if you are a bit confused about what is going on, please read ‘How to enter the Challenges’ The link will close on 29th May at 9pm. Please note the earlier time!

Now, get persuading and don’t forget to vote!

Have you voted yet?

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You had a little hint last week about our next exciting visitor and I can now tell you that Tim and Moby from Brain Pop will be setting the prompt next week! Make sure you don’t miss out on a very special animation just for 100WC! 

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Once again you have done brilliantly with your entries and those 5 words from last week! As there are so many wonderful pieces to share, the team from Lend Me Your Literacy is setting up a page for us to showcase even more pieces. More on that next week!

********** WEEK #29 SHOWCASE **********

Jonny in Yr.6 at Brundall School

Owen in Yr.5 at Our Lady of the Rosary, Kellyville

Netta in Yr.4 via SJB Teaching from Drayton Park

Aaron in Ash Class Yr.5  at Greenfields Primary

Emilia in Yr.6 at St Therese, Torquay, Australia

Ellie in Yr 4, St Andrews Yetminster

Lily in Yr.4 at High Lawn Primary

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To get you ready for the excitement of next week, you have part of a sentence for this weeks prompt. It is:

… now what do I need…

DO MAKE SURE YOU VISIT OTHER SCHOOLS. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER!

The link will close on the 15th May. If you are new here, please read ‘How to Enter the Challenges’ as that is where all the information is.

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The Showcase for this week will be a separate post later in the week. This is to allow ALL schools to be considered. Please make sure you FOLLOW this blog (see right hand side bar HERE) so that you don’t miss it! 

COMING SOON!

I’m really excited to tell you that Tim and Moby from Brain Pop will be visiting soon and setting the prompt! Yet another reason to make sure you FOLLOW the blog! 

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After all the excitement of the Night Keeper Zoo’s visit, we are going to calm things down a bit! Here are five words that you must include in your 100 words this week. They are:

… Marvellous  Castle  Flew  Noisily  Pink …

So that means you have 105 words to use in a creative piece of writing. Try to highlight the words so that your readers can see them easily.

If you are new here and a bit confused do read ‘How To Enter 100WC’ for more details. Do get in touch if you still have questions!

DON’T FORGET TO VISIT OTHER ENTRIES!!

TO ENTER SCROLL DOWN BELOW THE LIST OF ENTRIES!

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Many thanks to Oliver Quinlan for his ‘Live Blogs’ series for doing this.

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We all love to get comments. Team100WC has been re-organised so hopefully you will get at least one comment from them but it may not be until after the link closes. To get more comments though YOU all need to go and visit entries. It might be something you could on a Wednesday morning as part of your literacy or ‘first thing’ work. Do let us know how you organise it and we’ll share here!

Welcome back everyone! Hope you had a great holidays and did not eat too many Easter eggs!

Here is the Showcase for Week #26

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Morgan in Yr.3 at Brandlehow School

Charlie in Yr.5 at St Mary Redcliffe School

Tom in Yr.6 at High Lawn

Sarah in Yr.5 at Miriam Lord School

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The prompt this week is linked to the 23rd April. For those of us in the UK it is St Georges Day. He is the patron saint of England and the legend tells of him slaying a dragon. So the prompt is:

…the dragon slowly stirred …

Don’t forget you only have 100 words so try to use them carefully. If you are new here please fill in a Sign Up form and read How to Enter 100WC

The link will be open until 24th April. You will find where to enter below the Night Zoo Keeper’s logo!

As previously mentioned, we have a visitor setting the prompt next week! The Night Zoo Keeper will be coming to call so make sure you don’t miss his visit!

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The 100 Word Challenge is growing!

It is flourishing and children are benefiting from it. Their confidence is increasing and their writing skills are improving by leaps and bounds.

The reason it is so successful is comments the children get. They just love that they have a purpose for writing beyond keeping their teacher happy. Schools are encouraged to comment on posts to broaden pupils contact with other writers. Suggestions from peers hold a great deal of influence.

However, children also love to get comments from ‘grownups’. They understand that the 100WC is about sharing but also about getting better in their writing. So they do appreciate some suggestions of how to make that piece of writing even better. Obviously, it is done in a gentle and constructive way but we have seen great improvements to writing from children taking notice of comments.

The problem with every successful venture though is to maintain the standard. We desperately need more folks to comment. Team100WC is a group of adult volunteers who follow some guidelines and have a set of numbers to comment on each week. Generally, this would be 10 posts across a week. This would take in total about an hour of your time. The key is to pop in from Thursday to the following Wednesday to leave a comment.

If you think you can help please get in touch. This is not a one- off though. We are looking for people who can make this weekly commitment regularly. Obviously there will be things that prevent this but you can let us know and we can cover it.

Please do join the team. It will give you the chance to support young writers and you get to read some FANTASTIC work! Do get in touch by sending your details to [email protected]

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We are so excited to announce that the prompt for 25th April is going to be provided by the Night Zoo Keeper! I know lots of schools in the UK are already doing some amazing work with him so I can’t wait to see what he will ask us to write about!

Well done everyone who tackled the individual words. I think that is the most difficult of all prompts to do. Here are some that tyou should go and look at again!

********** WEEK #24 SHOWCASE **********

Hannah in Yr.6 at Brunswick House

Lili in Yr.6 at Cragside Primary

Ella in Yr.3 at The Deans Primary

Alfie in Yr.3/4 at Richard Heathcote Primary

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Now for this week’s prompt I have decided to get you working on your conversational writing. I want you to have a go using speech in your pieces. It doesn’t have to be very much but the prompt will help. It is:

…..??? asked ‘How can I help you?’… 

The question marks are where you should put the name of whoever is speaking. This prompt was suggested by Diethild who is a member of Team100WC. She lives in Mexico and is really very keen to see what you all come up with this week!

Don’t forget you can only use 100 more words making a total of 107. Do make sure you visit other schools to leave comments. You could sign up to ‘Blogadopt’ to help with this. Also make sure you have left your class details on the Sign Up form if you haven’t already done so!

If this is all very confusing, read ‘How to Join 100WC’ for some help. Get in touch if you have any questions.

The link will stay open until 28th March. Next week’s link will go over the Easter holidays so you’ll have plenty of time to complete it!

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IMPORTANT MESSAGES:

• Please make sure you post on the right site. This is for 5 Sentence Challenge NOT 100WC! 
• Please make sure your comment system allows people to comment easily.

Thank you all for sharing your ‘Garden’ sentences. There is lots happening out there! Here are the showcase pieces for 5SC#3

**********5SC#3 SHOWCASE **********

Abdullah in Yr.4 at St Pauls, Bolton

Grace who is 5 from St Luke’s Aided Primary

Jack & Elana in Yr.1 at High Lawn 

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This time you have a picture to look at. You will see that it has lots of different things happening. It is actually the picture of the jigsaw that I am doing at home and the picture is of Castle Coombe, the village where Dr. Dolittle and War Horse were filmed.

Look closely at the picture and decide what you are going to write your 5 sentences about.

If you are not sure about what to do please read the tabs at the top of the page. There is a video for you to watch!

The link will be open until midnight on 28th March

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